Facebook Stories for 2021

How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook 61
Apple Reportedly Hires Away Meta's AR Public Relations Head 19
Russia Steps Up Pressure on Google, Meta With Record Fines 57
Despite EU Court Rulings, Facebook Says US Is Safe To Receive Europeans' Data 32
Meta Shareholders Call for Oversight Audit 16
Facebook Bans 7 'Surveillance-For-Hire' Companies That Spied On 50,000 Users 9
Her Instagram Handle Was 'Metaverse.' Last Month, It Vanished. 249
Facebook Exec Blames Society for COVID Misinformation 149
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
New Social Media Transparency Bill Would Force Facebook To Open Up To Researchers 22
Meta's WhatsApp Will Allow Crypto Payments Through Novi Wallet in US 10
Meta Opens Up Access To Its VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds 22
Meta Has a 'Moral Obligation' To Make Its Mental Health Research Transparent, Scientists Say 46
Activist Facebook Group Shuts Down Marketers Selling Dangerous 'Magic Dirt' on Facebook 204
Meta Builds Tool To Stop the Spread of 'Revenge Porn' 94
Meta Allows More Cryptocurrency Ads 32
Facebook's David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, To Leave Company 16
UK Regulators Order Facebook-owner Meta To Sell Giphy 27
UK Regulator Expected To Block Meta's Giphy Deal 14
The Head of Instagram Agrees To Testify as Congress Probes the App's Effects on Young People 13
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public 45
Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023 34
How Facebook and Google Actually Fund the Creation of Misinformation 196
Facebook Tells LA Police To Stop Spying on Users With Fake Accounts 60
US State Attorneys General Open Probe into Instagram's Effect on Kids 16
During COP26, Facebook Served Ads With Climate Falsehoods, Skepticism 175
Fifty Percent of Facebook Messenger's Total Voice Traffic Comes from Cambodia. Here's Why 29
Ohio's Largest Public Pension Sues Facebook, Saying the Media Giant Misled Investors 74
How Should Facebook Be Fixed? 171
Will Microsoft Beat Facebook to the Metaverse? 45
Three Out of Four Adults Think Facebook Is Making Society Worse, Poll Finds 159
Facebook Denies Report It Gave Kazakhstan's Government Special Direct Access to Its Content Reporting System 41
Meta Quest 2 Is Already Replacing Oculus Quest 2 Branding 10
Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest 41
Facebook Faces New Antitrust Lawsuit 11
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants To Build Stores 52
A Startup Says It Applied To Trademark Meta Before Facebook 81
Facebook Is Backing Away From Facial Recognition. Meta Isn't. 33
Zuckerberg's Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior 88
Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans To Shut Down Facial Recognition System 36
Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook is Targeting Children as Young as 6 84
What Else Do the Leaked 'Facebook Papers' Show? 62
John Carmack Issues Some Words of Warning For Meta and Its Metaverse Plans 48
Leaked Photo Shows Meta's Planned Competitor To Apple Watch 28
Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand 50
Facebook is Changing Its Name To Meta 149
How Facebook Plans To Build Its Metaverse 38
Apple's Privacy Rules to Blame For Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth, Says Zuckerberg 46
Tech's Message To the Hill: We're Not Facebook 43
Facebook Says It's Refocusing Company on 'Serving Young Adults' 173
Facebook Is Spending At Least $10 Billion This Year On Its Metaverse Division 58
Apple Once Threatened Facebook Ban Over Mideast Maid Abuse 90
How Misinformation - and One Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana 248
The Man Who Stole and Then Sold Data on 178 Million Facebook Users Gets Sued by Facebook 70
Facebook Accused of Tolerating Dangerous and Criminal Behavior to Preserve Profitability 196
Facebook Fined Record £50m By UK Competition Watchdog 15
Facebook is Planning To Rebrand the Company With a New Name 132
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Added To a DC Lawsuit Over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal 24
Facebook's Novi Set To Launch Pilot With Paxos's Stablecoin as Uncertainty Hangs Over Diem 12
Facebook Plans To Hire 10,000 In Europe To Build 'Metaverse' 67
New Internal Documents Contradict Facebook's Claims that AI Can Enforce Its Rules 71
Researchers Show Facebook's Ad Tools Can Target a Single User 23
One of Facebook's Earliest Investors Says People Have Lost Trust in Company 57
Groups Launch 'How To Stop Facebook' Effort 53
The Intercept Reveals Facebook's Secret Blacklist of 'Dangerous Individuals and Organizations' 71
Facebook To Act on Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest 22
Facebook's Success Was Built on Algorithms. Can They Also Fix It? 70
Facebook VP Suggests a Fix: a Prompt Urging Teen Instagram Users to 'Take a Break' 40
Former Facebook Staffers React to Company's Unapologetic Response to Whistleblower 70
Facebook Says Some of Its Services Are Having Issues Again 32
Facebook Bans Developer Behind Unfollow Everything Tool 84
Navy Facebook Account Hacked To Stream 'Age of Empires' 37
Oculus Quest Becomes a Paperweight When Facebook Goes Down 79
Telegram Founder Says Over 70 Million New Users Joined During Facebook Outage 50
US Lawmakers Demand Facebook Probes; Whistleblower Says Children Harmed 100
Zuckerberg Loses $6 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges 98
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus Have Been Suffering Global Outage For More Than 3 Hours Now [Update] 252
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
'The Big Delete:' Inside Facebook's Crackdown in Germany 78
Facebook's Effort To Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show 36
Facebook is Spending $50 Million To 'Responsibly' Build the Metaverse 25
Facebook is Hitting the Brakes on Instagram for Kids 38
Facebook Will Open Its Fiber Networks To Expand Broadband Access In Rural Virginia 8
'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America' 208
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer To Step Down 4
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook's Push To Defend Its Image 90
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data 37
Facebook Warned Over 'Very Small' Indicator LED On Smart Glasses 112
Peter Thiel Claims Zuckerberg Agreed To Push 'State-Sanctioned Conservatism' Under Trump Deal 133
Bad for your Health? Salesforce CEO Argues Facebook 'is the New Cigarettes' 79
WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes 54
WhatsApp Reinvents the 'Yellow Pages' 20
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
Russia Fines Facebook, Twitter for Not Deleting Banned Content 57
Facebook's Own Research Shows Instagram Is Harmful To Teens, Report Says 19
Facebook: Some High-Profile Users 'Allowed To Break Platform's Rules' 74
Facebook Unveils Superpack, a New Compression Technique 54
Facebook Admits It Sent Misinformation Researchers Flawed Data 81
Facebook Debuts Its Ray-Ban Stories Smart Sunglasses 118
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
Facebook Users Liable For All Comments Under Their Posts, According To Australia High Court 189
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages 87
Facebook Admits 'Trust Deficit' As It Looks To Launch Digital Wallet 61
Facebook Apologizes After Its AI Labeled Black Men 'Primates' 217
Facebook is Subcontracting Its Content Moderation for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars 48
Is Facebook the AOL of 2021? 134
Facebook Has Trackers in 25% of Websites and 61% of the Most Popular Apps 81
The Most Popular Posts On Facebook Are Plagiarized 40
Facebook Used Facial Recognition Without Consent 200K Times, Says Watchdog 13
Facebook Said To Consider Forming An Election Commission 75
Facebook Considers Building NFT Features Alongside Digital Wallet 15
Facebook Relents, Releases Report that Makes Them Look Bad 54
Facebook Suppressed Report That Made It Look Bad 69
Facebook Wants You To Hold Your Next Meeting in VR 76
Facebook Hit by New US Antitrust Case as FTC Seeks Do-Over 26
Facebook Says It Wants a 'Fair Shot' In the Crypto Payments Sphere 44
Google and Facebook's New Cable To Link Japan and Southeast Asia 13
Russia-Linked Ad Agency Smeared Vaccines Using Hundreds of Fake Instagram Accounts 236
Facebook Shut Down German Research on Instagram Algorithm, Researchers Say 24
Facebook Could Be Forced by UK Watchdog To Sell Gif Creator Giphy 13
Facebook Engineers Develop New Open Source Time Keeping Appliance 99
TikTok Overtakes Facebook As World's Most Downloaded App 15
Senators Press Facebook for Answers About Why It Cut Off Misinformation Researchers 46
Facebook's WhatsApp Takes Aim At Apple Over Child Safety Software Plan 51
Facebook Cuts Off NYU Researcher Access, Prompting Rebuke From Lawmakers 36
Social Media Giants Failing To Remove Most Antisemitic Posts 140
Facebook Researchers Hope To Bring Together Two Foes: Encryption and Ads 53
Facebook Users Are Buying Oculus VR Headsets To Get Customer Service Prioritization 82
Facebook's Next Hardware Launch Will Be Its Ray-Ban 'Smart Glasses' 30
Cook, Pichai Join CEOs Urging Congress Pass Path to Citizenship 172
Facebook Warns Growth To 'Decelerate Significantly', Mandates Vaccine For US Staff 113
States Say They Will Appeal the Dismissal of Their Facebook Antitrust Suit 35
Facebook Creates New Unit To Build a 'Metaverse' 42
Facebook Pauses Sales of the Oculus Quest 2 Due To Face Irritation Concerns 34
Facebook, Twitter and Other Tech Giants To Target Attacker Manifestos, Far-right Militias in Database 197
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148
Facebook is Now Aggressively Courting a New Partner: Churches 126
Facebook Details Experimental Mixed Reality and Passthrough API 4
Facebook's Kustomer Deal Set To Face EU Antitrust Investigation 1
'Facebook Isn't Killing People' -- Biden Walks Back Attack Over Vaccine Lies 241
Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are 'Killing People' With COVID-19 Misinformation 259
Facebook Engineer Abused Access To User Data To Track Woman That Left Him After a Fight, New Book Says 78
Facebook is Ditching Plans To Make an Interface That Reads the Brain 24
Inside Facebook's Data Wars 37
Amazon Has Acquired Facebook's Satellite Internet Team 29
Facebook Asks for FTC Chair Lina Khan To Be Recused From Its Antitrust Case 38
Facebook Announces Time Bonus Payouts For Bug Hunters 9
Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten To Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws 92
Zuck Celebrates $1 Trillion Valuation, Dismissed Antitrust Suits With Bizarre Flag-Waving Instagram Post 68
Judge Blocks Florida Law That Would Punish Social Media Companies for Banning Politicians 254
Apps With 5.8 Million Google Play Downloads Stole Users' Facebook Passwords 35
Instagram is 'No Longer a Photo-Sharing App,' Says Its Head 36
Facebook Tests Prompts That Ask Users If They're Worried a Friend is 'Becoming an Extremist' 172
Facebook Rises After Lawsuit Dismissal, Hits $1 Trillion Value 49
Texas Court Rules Teens Can Sue Facebook For Its Alleged Role in Their Sex Trafficking 97
After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups To Its Users 32
Facebook's First Oculus Ads Partner Is Already Retreating 30
Facebook Launches Its Clubhouse Clone 12
Facebook Will Start Putting Ads in Oculus Quest Apps 77
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Others Urge SEC To Mandate Regular Climate Reports 55
Facebook Accounts For Over Half of Sex Trafficing Recruitment 135
House Democrats About To Uncork 5-Pronged Assault on Tech 107
Instagram CEO Says Facebook Will Help Users Get Around Apple's Cut of Transactions 30
Facebook Plans First Smartwatch for Next Summer With Two Cameras, Heart Rate Monitor 25
Facebook Says It Will Expand Remote Work To All Employees, But May Reduce Pay If They Move To Less-Expensive Area 142
Facebook Won't Take a Cut From Creators Until 2023, Zuckerberg Says in Shot at Apple 18
Trump Will Remain Off Facebook For At Least Two Years 244
UK and EU Investigate Facebook Over Unfair Use of Data in Digital Advertising 6
Facebook To End Special Treatment for Politicians 73
Facebook Says US Is the Top Target of Disinformation Campaigns 62
Facebook and Instagram Confront Historically Bad 'Reputational Crisis' in the Middle East 81
Twitter and Facebook Admit They Wrongly Blocked Millions of Posts About Gaza Strip Airstrikes 156
WhatsApp Says It Won't Limit Functionality If You Refuse Its Privacy Policy -- For Now 10
Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and Other Internet Giants Comply With India's IT Rules 20
Facebook Ends Ban On Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made 451
Facebook Board Rejects Proposals To Curb Zuckerberg's Power 46
EU Set To Open Antitrust Probe Into Facebook's Classified Ads Business 3
Russia Raises Heat on Twitter, Google and Facebook in Online Crackdown 36
WhatsApp Sues India Government 27
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates 402
Apple Refused To Remove Negative Ratings for Facebook App Left by Pro-Palestinian Activists 242
Facebook Says Government Internet Shutdowns Are on the Rise 40
Facebook Calls Links To Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree 100
Report: 65% of Social Media Anti-vax Propaganda Comes From Just 12 People 297
'How Lies on Social Media Are Inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' 362
Facebook Loses Challenge To Irish Watchdog's Data Curbs 16
Facebook-Backed Diem Abandons Swiss License Application, Will Move To the US 34
Facebook Ordered To Stop Collecting German WhatsApp Data 32
Facebook Is Testing Pop-Up Messages Telling People To Read a Link Before They Share It 61
Facebook Should Halt Instagram Kids Plan, Attorneys General Say 43
Twitter and TikTok are Losing the War Against COVID Disinformation 146
Facebook Criticized For 'Arbitrary' Suspension of Trump -- by Its Own Oversight Board 183
Months-long Twitter Backlash Had Zero Impact on WhatsApp's User Base 47
Signal Tried To Use Instagram Ads To Display the Data Facebook Collects and Sells. Facebook Banned Signal's Account. 55
Trump's Facebook Ban Should Not Be Lifted, Network's Oversight Board Rules 328
New Emails Show Steve Jobs Referred To Facebook As 'Fecebook' Amid App Store Conflict 59
New Florida Law Could Punish Social Media Companies for 'Deplatforming' Politicians 336
English Soccer Teams Have Started a Four-Day Social Media Boycott To Protest Online Abuse 59
Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech 49
Oculus Will Sell You a Quest 2 Headset That Doesn't Need Facebook For An Extra $500 101
As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down 110
Facebook's Oculus, EA and Respawn Win Game Industry's First Oscar for 'Colette' Documentary Short 13
How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes 118
'Facebook Knows It Was Used To Help Incite The Capitol Insurrection' 384
Facebook Mistakenly Deletes Page for the Town of Bitche, France 76
A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses 15
Would Be Cool if Everyone Normalized These Pesky Data Leaks, Says Data-Leaking Facebook in Leaked Memo 33
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook is Working on a Clubhouse Clone 25
'Blistering' Note Reveals Secret Travails of Facebook's Content Moderators 65
Facebook Urged To Reconsider Its Plans for an Instagram for Children 34
Report: Facebook Loophole 'Lets World Leaders Deceive and Harass Their Citizens' 39
Facebook Reaches 100% Renewable-Energy Milestone 19
Ireland Opens GDPR Investigation Into Facebook Leak 7
Singapore's Most Expensive Facebook Link 16
Facebook Hits Renewable Energy Goal Ahead of Earth Day 24
Tech Industry Group Funded by Amazon, Facebook and Google Says It Supports a Corporate Tax Hike 92
There's Another Facebook Phone Number Database Online 7
Google Accused of Secret Program Giving Them an Unfair Advantage in Ad-Buying 26
Attackers Can Now Remotely Deactivate WhatsApp on Your Phone 52
Research Says Facebook's Ad Algorithm Perpetuates Gender Bias 105
Facebook Hopes Tiny Labels On Posts Will Stop Users Confusing Satire With Reality 113
FTC Urges Courts Not To Dismiss Facebook Antitrust Case 9
Facebook Does Not Plan To Notify Half-Billion Users Affected by Data Leak 22
Facebook Says It's Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers 65
Irish Regulator Probes 'Old' Facebook Data Dump 13
Information On Half Billion Facebook Users Leaked Online 48
Supreme Court Says Facebook Text Alerts Aren't Illegal Robocalls 108
Facebook Blames 'Technical Issue' For Shorting Video Creators Thousands of Dollars In Ad Revenue 20
China-Based Hackers Caught Using Facebook For Targeted Spying on Uighurs 79
'Apple and Facebook's Fight Isn't Actually About Privacy Or Tracking' 22
Facebook To Start Reopening Silicon Valley Offices in May 22
Facebook Has Been Autogenerating Pages For White Supremacists 97
Big Tech CEOs Told 'Time For Self-Regulation is Over' By US Lawmakers 108
Twitter Is Exploring the Use of Facebook-Style Emoji Reactions 14
Facebook and Twitter Must Do More To Fight Anti-Vaccine Misinformation, a Dozen State Attorneys General Demand 153
India Antitrust Body Orders Investigation Into WhatsApp's privacy policy changes 2
Mark Zuckerberg Suggests How To Tweak Tech's Liability Shield 52
Facebook Guidelines Allow Users To Call For Death of Public Figures 86
Facebook Waited Too Long To Stop 10 Billion Pageviews of Repeat Misinformation Spreaders 168
US Supreme Court Rebuffs Facebook Appeal In User Tracking Lawsuit 23
Are Tech Companies Squandering 'the Good of All' for Extractive Behaviors? 67
Facebook May Actually Be In a 'Stronger Position' After Apple's iOS 14 Privacy Changes 31
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 30
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger Are Down for Many 30
Facebook is Making a Bracelet That Lets You Control Computers With Your Brain 51
Facebook To Label, Add Information To Posts on Covid-19 Vaccine 55
Facebook Studies the Spread of 'Vaccine Hesitancy', Finds Small Group Has Big Influence 316
Facebook Asks Court To Dismiss US Government, States Antitrust Cases 22
Antitrust Advocate Who Coined the Phrase 'Net Neutrality' Joins Biden's White House 70
India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees 77

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