Facebook Stories for 2022

Inspired by Amazon, Paid Promotions Spread to Other Online Shopping Sites in 2022 12
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies 50
Facebook Parent Meta To Settle Cambridge Analytica Case For $725 Million 25
Meta To Delay Closing Within Unlimited Deal by One Month 6
Facebook Held Back on Naming Cambridge Analytica in 2017 17
Facebook's Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs To Metaverse Next Year 71
Meta Hit With EU Antitrust Charges Over Marketplace Service 32
John Carmack Resigns Meta VR Post, Leaves VR Industry, Criticizes Meta's 'Inefficiency' 163
Meta Halts Construction of Two Data Centers In Denmark 10
Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom Launch Overture Maps Foundation To Develop Interoperable Open Map Data 34
Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade 10
Meta Threatens To Pull News From Facebook If Congress Passes Media Bill 161
Australia Says Law Making Facebook and Google Pay For News Has Worked 13
Meta Urges Washington To Take Hands-Off Approach To Regulating the Metaverse 54
Zuckerberg Says Apple's Policies Not 'Sustainable' 124
Mark Zuckerberg Still 'Long-Term Optimistic' on Metaverse, Says Skepticism Doesn't Bother Him Too Much 82
Meta Fined $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users 22
Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign 74
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To Facebook 48
Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers 31
Facebook's Fact-checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Announcement of Presidential Bid 297
Meta's Latest Large Language Model Survived Only Three Days Online 57
Facebook To Remove Several Information Fields From Profiles, Including Religious and Political Views 55
Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts 31
'Metaverse Will Be Our Slow Death': Meta Employees Hit Out At Zuckerberg 121
Meta Is Exiting Portal Smart Display Business, Winding Down Work On Smartwatch Projects 15
Meta Cuts 11,000 Jobs 183
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing To Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week 60
Meta's Profit Slides by More Than 50 Percent as Challenges Mount 84
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Compares Facebook's Metaverse To a 'Project Car' 52
Meta Shareholder Writes Critical Open Letter, Saying the Company Needs To Slash Headcount and Stop Spending So Much on 'Metaverse' 95
Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation 93
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
Has Online Disinformation Splintered and Become More Intractable? 455
Anti-Vaccine Groups Avoid Facebook Bans By Using Emojis 371
'I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse' 54
Tensions Rise in India Over Claim That Instagram Let Ruling Party Tamper With Posts 52
Meta To Sell Giphy After UK Regulator Blocks $315 Million Deal 26
Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp 'Far More Private and Secure' than iMessage 92
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse 'Sad' and 'Empty', Leaked Internal Documents Complain 250
New 'Council for Responsible Social Media' Seeks Bipartisan Reforms 30
Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie 59
Carmack: 'There's a Bunch That I'm Grumpy About' in Virtual Reality 78
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Enjoys 'Being Doubted' 38
Microsoft Partners With Meta To Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox To VR 87
Meta Launches $1,4999 Quest Pro Headset 82
Meta Announces Legs 84
Facebook Warns 1 Million Users Whose Logins Were Stolen By Scam Mobile Apps 15
Zuckerberg's Metaverse Rush Pauses For 'Quality Lockdown' 69
Facebook Conducts 'Quiet Layoffs' By Urging Managers To Identify Certain Number of Workers as Underperforming 140
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Meta Ordered To Pay $175 Million For Copying Green Beret Veteran's App 36
Meta's New Text-to-Video AI Generator is Like DALL-E for Video 10
Meta Announces Hiring Freeze, Warns Employees of Restructuring 57
Meta Cracks Down on Ad-Free Instagram Client a Day After It Launched 59
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
Meta Sued For Skirting Apple Privacy Rules To Snoop On Users 36
Facebook Could Lift Trump's Suspension in January, Nick Clegg Says 198
Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights 72
Meta and Google Are Cutting Staff. Just Don't Mention Layoffs. 37
46 States Ask Appeals Court To Reinstate Facebook Lawsuit 13
Mark Zuckerberg's $71 Billion Wealth Wipeout Puts Focus On Meta's Woes 83
The $300B Google-Meta Advertising Duopoly is Under Attack 34
South Korea Fines Google, Meta Billions of Won For Privacy Violations 19
To Defeat FTC Lawsuit, Meta Demands Over 100 Rivals Share Biggest Trade Secrets 55
'Quest Pro' Video Shows Meta's Next VR Headset a Month Before Its Launch 29
Facebook Parent Meta Cuts Responsible Innovation Team 19
Facebook Button is Disappearing From Websites as Consumers Demand Better Privacy 36
Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data 69
Instagram Removes Pornhub's Account 34
Facebook 'Repeatedly and Intentionally' Violated Washington's Political Ad Law, Judge Rules 49
Facebook is Shutting Down Its Standalone Gaming App in October 6
'Facebook Misinformation Is Bad Enough. The Metaverse Will Be Worse' 53
Facebook is Settling Potential Cambridge Analytica Class Action Suit 14
Mark Zuckerberg Says Waking Up Every Day as CEO of Meta is Like Getting Punched in the Stomach 216
Quest VR Owners Have New Meta Logins To Use Instead of Facebook 33
Encrypting Facebook Messenger Could Be a 'Grotesque Betrayal', Says Top UK Politician 97
After Mockery, Mark Zuckerberg Promises Better Metaverse Graphics, Posts New Avatar 63
Gen Z is Over Facebook, Finds Pew Research. But YouTube Dominates Among Teens 57
Facing Privacy Concerns, Facebook Begins Testing End-to-End Encrypted Chats, Secure Backups 19
Facebook Will Begin Testing End-To-End Encryption As Default On Messenger App 13
Inside the Apple vs. Facebook Privacy Fight 19
Meta Injecting Code Into Websites Visited By Its Users To Track Them, Research Says 49
Meta's AI Chatbot Repeats Election and Anti-Semitic Conspiracies 146
In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg Took a Vow of User Privacy On Slashdot 68
By Manufacturing Viral Videos, Magicians Made a Fortune on Facebook 22
Meta is Expanding NFT Support on Instagram To 100 Countries 18
Meta Sued For Violating Patient Privacy With Data Tracking Tool 37
What 21 Billion Facebook Friendships Say About the Economic Ladder In the US 53
Meta Cuts Funding for US News Publishers 39
CERN Is Totally Not Opening a Portal To Hell 214
Facebook Approved Pro-Genocide Ads in Kenya 28
'Stop Trying To Be TikTok': User Backlash Over Instagram Changes 50
Meta's Revenue Shrank For the First Time In Its History 48
FTC Files To Block Meta's Virtual Reality Deal 20
Zuckerberg Says Meta and Apple Are In 'Very Deep, Philosophical Competition' To Build the Metaverse 132
A Newly Discovered Malware Hijacks Facebook Business Accounts 7
Facebook Parent Meta Raises Price of its Quest 2 VR Headset by $100 71
Meta is Shutting Down Tuned, Its Social App for Couples 23
Facebook Changes Users' Feeds To Look More Like TikTok 59
Zuckerberg and Sandberg Ordered To Testify Over Alleged Involvement In Cambridge Analytica Scandal 35
Meta Is Suing Meta For Naming Itself Meta 98
Google, Meta Bow To Sweeping Taxes, Content Curbs in Indonesia 13
Report: Facebook has Started Encrypting Links to Counter Browsers' Anti-Tracking Measures 163
Europe Faces Facebook Blackout 124
Meta is Dumping Facebook Logins as Its Metaverse ID System 36
EU Lawmakers Pass Landmark Tech Rules, But Enforcement a Worry 31
Meta Is Finally Closing Its Cryptocurrency Project Novi 27
Facebook Groups Are Being Revamped To Look Like Discord 14
Meta Sparks Anger By Charging For VR Apps 32
Facebook is Bombarding Cancer Patients With Ads For Unproven Treatments 81
Facebook Agrees To Massive Settlement For Data Privacy Class Action Lawsuit 25
Mark Zuckerberg is More Interested in the Metaverse Than Election Integrity 46
Microsoft, Facebook, and Others Are Founding a Metaverse Open Standards Group 32
Facebook Unveils Future 'Near Retina-Quality' VR Headsets 47
Stolen Goods Sold on Amazon, eBay and Facebook Are Causing Havoc for Major Retailers 106
Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites 92
Nigeria's Internet Regulator Releases Draft To Regulate Google, Facebook, TikTok and Others 28
Microsoft, Facebook, Google Oppose Buffett-Backed Wind Farm Project 137
Meta Will Stop Making Portal For Consumers 45
Meta Halts Development of Apple Watch Rival with Two Cameras 39
Supreme Court Seeks Biden Views on WhatsApp 'Pegasus' Spyware Dispute 30
Who Will Replace Sheryl Sandberg? Maybe No One 18
Facebook is Developing a 'Privacy-Safe' Ad Product, Report Says 36
Sheryl Sandberg Is Stepping Down as Meta's COO After 14 Years 26
Meta Says EU Was Like 'Fishing Trawler' in Antitrust Data Hunt 69
Remote Learning Apps Tracked Millions of US Children During Pandemic 44
Meta Copied VR Technology Key To Metaverse Gaming, Immersion Claims 13
Zuckerberg's Metaverse To Lose 'Significant' Money in Near Term 67
Facebook Opens Political Ad Data Vaults To Researchers 3
DC Attorney General Sues Mark Zuckerberg Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach 44
Facebook Slammed for Spreading Putin's Russian Propaganda in NATO's East 115
WhatsApp Launches Cloud API To All Businesses Worldwide 7
Facebook-Owner Meta Tells Hardware Staffers To Prepare for Cutbacks 11
Facebook To Discontinue 'Nearby Friends' and Other Location-Based Features 11
Facebook Deliberately Caused Havoc in Australia To Influence New Law, Whistleblowers Say 83
Facebook Parent Meta Hits the Brakes on Hiring as Growth Stalls 18
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its Podcast Service 12
Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 35
Snapchat's Evan Spiegel Dismisses Facebook's Metaverse as 'Hypothetical' 28
Tech Giants Duped Into Giving Up Data Used to Sexually Extort Minors 34
Facebook Doesn't Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes 59
Meta Opens First Store To Sell Quests, Portals, and Glasses 20
Facebook's Fibre Optics in Nigerian State Put Africa Pivot in Focus 13
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Fixated On Creating AR's 'iPhone Moment' 55
Gizmodo Publishes Massive New Leaked Trove of Internal Facebook Papers 20
Social Media Made Us Stupid - and How to Fix It 141
Apple's App Tracking Transparency Crackdown Estimated To Cost Facebook Another $13 Billion In 2022 42
Meta Teases Web Version of Horizon Worlds 15
Meta is Racing To Release Its First AR Glasses in 2024 43
Meta Plans To Take Nearly 50% of Creator's Earnings In 'Horizon Worlds' 79
Facebook Says Ukraine Military Accounts Were Hacked To Post Calls For Surrender 25
Meta is Making 'Zuck Bucks' 41
Facebook Users Angry After Accounts Locked for No Reason 91
A Facebook Bug Mistakenly Elevated Misinformation, Russian State Media for Months 40
Facebook Paid GOP Firm To Malign TikTok 101
Watch Out, Facebook. American Non-Profit Creates Social Network for Older Adults 61
To Help Retain Engineers, Apple Gives $100K-$200K Bonuses 29
Facebook Fails To Detect Hate Against Rohingya 110
Russia Finds Meta Guilty of 'Extremist Activity' 102
Facebook is Locking Out People Who Didn't Activate Facebook Protect 42
Australian Watchdog Sues Facebook-owner Meta Over Scam Advertisements 17
South Africa Regulator Refers Meta To Tribunal Over Dominance 5
Facebook Says Users Can't Post Calls To Assassinate Putin 127
Facebook's Metaverse Vision Questioned by Gaming Veteran 51
Russia Shuts Down Instagram at Midnight. Users Say Farewell 116
Russia Asks Court To Label Facebook, Instagram as 'Extremist' 91
HBO Accused of Sharing Subscriber Data With Facebook In Class Action Lawsuit 14
Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter 118
Facebook is Shutting Down Its College Student-only Social Network, Campus 7
Facebook Researchers Find Its Apps Can Make Us Lonelier 31
Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked - Sort Of 48
Facebook and YouTube Block RT, Other Russian Channels From Earning Ad Dollars 65
Facebook Says Penalized By Russia After Refusing To Halt Fact-checkers 39
Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push 16
Facebook 'Lets Vigilantes in Ethiopia Incite Ethnic Killing' 54
Zuckerberg's Facebook Burns $500 Billion Becoming 'Meta'. Are They In Trouble? 169
Meta's Social VR Platform Horizon Hits 300,000 Users 19
Meta Axes a Head of Global Community Development After He Appears On Video In Underage Sex Sting 60
Why You Can't Have Legs in Virtual Reality (Yet) 99
Zuckerberg Coldly Explains To Facebook Staff They Are Now To Be Known As 'Metamates' 208
Texas Sues Meta Over Facebook's Facial-Recognition Practices 17
'Meta Wouldn't Tell Us How It Enforces Its Rules In VR, So We Ran A Test' 90
Mozilla and Meta (Formerly Facebook) Propose New Privacy-Preserving Ad Technology 120
New Algorithm Bill Could Force Facebook To Change How the News Feed Works 97
Nvidia Is Now Worth More Than Meta 60
Facebook Freezes Novi Digital Wallet Project 5
Facebook Says It Is 'Absolutely Not Threatening' To Leave Europe After Many Welcomed the Move 153
We're Fine Without Facebook, German and French Ministers Say 112
Meta Introduces 'Personal Boundary' Feature To VR Worlds 90
Mark Zuckerberg and Team Considering Shutting Down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta Cannot Process Europeans' Data on US Servers 120
Meta Threatens To Pull Facebook and Instagram From Europe If It Can't Target Ads 252
What Would Happens To Meta and Google If Privacy Invasion Were Criminalized? 101
Six Reasons Meta (Formerly Facebook) is In Trouble 117
How Apple's Privacy Push Cost Meta $10 Billion 78
Facebook To Bring in Mandatory Distances Between Virtual Reality Avatars 143
Zuckerberg Tells Staff To Focus on Video Products as Meta's Stock Plunges 43
Zuckerberg Tells Staff to Focus on Video Products as Meta's Stock Plunges 71
Facebook Lost Daily Users for the First Time Ever Last Quarter 133
Messenger's End-To-End Encrypted Chats and Calls Are Available To Everyone 41
WhatsApp Gets EU Ultimatum After New Terms Spark Backlash 8
Meta's Ill-Fated Cryptocurrency May Be Close To Dissolving 39
Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer 48
Facebook Promised Free Internet Access, but Users Got Charged Anyway 17
The EU Approves Sweeping Draft Regulations On Social Media Giants 105
Meta Researchers Build an AI That Learns Equally Well From Visual, Written or Spoken Materials 22
Facebook and Instagram May Help You Create and Sell NFTs 23
Senate Judiciary Committee Clears Tech-Focused Antitrust Bill 17
Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft Weave a Fiber-Optic Web of Power 23
Zuckerberg and Pichai Allegedly Signed Off On Illegal Facebook-Google Ad Deal 23
Meta's Oculus Unit Faces FTC-Led Probe of Competition Practices 5
Mozilla Is Going To Track Facebook Tracking You 41
The FTC's Antitrust Suit Against Facebook Moves Forward 7
Amid Facebook Controversies, Meta's Head of PR 'Leaves a Company on Fire' 43
Meta Sued For Alleged Role In Extremist-Linked Murder of Federal Guard 34
Google, Facebook Slapped With French Privacy Fines Over Cookies 26
Facebook Halts VR and AR Operating System Project 39
China Is Harvesting 'Masses' of Data on Western Targets from Social Media 42