Digital platforms are having a bad year. That might be good news for America’s mental health. The negative headlines keep coming, mostly driven by disappointing quarterly earnings calls. Last Wednesday, Facebook parent company Meta reported…

The congressional testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that it was always unrealistic to expect that the social media behemoth would ever police itself or place progress over profit. Now, following Haugen, Sophie Zhang…

U.S. lawmakers investigating how Facebook Inc. and other online platforms shape users’ worldviews are considering new rules for the artificial intelligence programs blamed for spreading malicious content.  This legislative push is taking on more urgency…

Facebook’s critics have long argued that the social media giant is bad for consumers, bad for children and bad for the country — a serial abuser of its users’ privacy, an amplifier of misinformation and…

The algorithmic gods in charge of Facebook broke down after the bad news. On Monday, less than 24 hours after whistleblower Frances Haugen made allegations of unsavory practices by the social media behemoth on national…

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg addressed a recent series of negative stories about the company for the first time by saying accusations that it puts profit over user safety are “just not true.”…

Facebook said it is suspending former President Donald Trump’s accounts for two years following its finding that he stoked violence ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. “At the end of this period, we will…

WASHINGTON  — The decision by Facebook’s oversight board to block former President Donald Trump’s return to the world’s biggest social media platform for now is a major political blow, denying him access to a huge…

Snapchat permanently banned President Donald Trump’s account, saying he has violated the mobile app’s rules many times by trying to spread hate speech and incite violence. After indefinitely suspending Trump’s account following the Jan. 6…

After years of treating President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, which many called justified following…