Social Media

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has officially fined Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica controversy, while the social media platform also deals with a class-action lawsuit.

Facebook reportedly believes the attack that compromised 30 million of its users' accounts was conducted by spammers, not spies.

Facebook said the attack it originally believed to have affected 50 million people actually compromised 30 million--but it's still investigating.

Google is shutting down its social media platform, Google+, while announcing that a vulnerability gave hundreds of apps access to private information of almost 500,000 users.

An attack on Facebook's network led to a breach affecting nearly 50 million of the social network's users, with 40 million more possibly vulnerable.

WhatsApp's co-founder has broken his silence to offer a first-hand account of the company's repeated clashes with Facebook over advertising and user privacy.

Researchers discovered that Facebook lets advertise target people based on the phone numbers they use for 2FA and contact information shared by other users.

New poll from Pew shows Facebook users are changing their privacy settings and deleting the mobile app.

Tech firms whose primary source of income comes from advertising are reportedly lobbying to write the rules in the upcoming U.S. federal privacy bill.

Google joined Facebook and Twitter in removing accounts linked to an Iranian "influence operation" from YouTube, Blogger and Google+.