Social Media

A court in Moscow issued a $50 fine to Facebook for violating a data privacy law that requires information about Russian users to be kept on servers in Russia.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing marketers to target ads.

Facebook confirmed that the passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stored in plain text, but denied that its employees improperly accessed them.

Myspace lost "any photos, videos, and audio files" its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 as the result of a failed server migration project.

Despite saying phone numbers used for 2FA wouldn't be used for anything else, Facebook actually uses those numbers to help people find their friends' accounts.

Facebook's chief AI researcher told Bloomberg the company is working on a semiconductor design made specifically to handle the mass amounts of data used by AI.

German's Federal Cartel Office said Facebook is a monopoly with over 95 percent of the social media market in Germany.

Facebook Gaming has partnered up with Streamlabs to make it easier for people to stream on the platform.

An NYT investigation revealed that Facebook partnered with more than 150 companies from 2010-2017 to offer them special data access without informing users.

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.