News and analysis for all things Facebook and Meta, its parent company.
The decay of Google, Amazon, and Facebook are part of a larger trend.
Like it or not, the billionaire gets to decide how half the world uses technology.
The Meta CEO’s commitment to free expression doesn’t apply to embarrassing memoirs.
Did you just send me an Instagram Reel? Are you trying to kill me?
The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.
What to know about Meta’s new restrictions on young people’s social media use.
This is not a win for free speech. It’s a political grenade.
What is the Kids’ Online Safety Act, and why should you care about it?
In two decades the behemoth social media platform has made a lot of money and brought in a lot of users — and made life worse for a lot of people.
Hungry for money, hackers in Vietnam have hacked into thousands of Meta accounts.
A new study shows how anti-vaxxers quickly regroup when Facebook removes vaccine misinformation.
A court has temporarily stopped a judge’s order forbidding the White House from contacting social media companies from taking effect.
At Cannes Lions, the year’s biggest ad event, you couldn’t escape talk of ChatGPT or Midjourney, even at the yacht parties.
Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and other tech companies are trying new ways to label content made by AI.
The company started notifying laid-off employees early Wednesday morning in the second recent round of mass cuts.
Rupert Murdoch’s company doesn’t like paying the $787 million settlement. But now it’s back to business as usual.
But layoffs that last months are worse, as Mark Zuckerberg may soon find out.
Though the company’s stock jumped, it’s still facing big challenges from Apple, TikTok, and younger users.
The former president and promoter of the “big lie” is Facebook’s problem again.
What can Napster tell us about the future?
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are trying to get their groove back.
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos.
Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.
We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.
In an internal memo, a top exec says a “perfect storm of skepticism” won’t deter Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans.
Why do we keep believing things that are too good to be true?
Why Big Tech’s glory days are coming to a close.
Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine.
After more than a decade of living their work, tech workers are being let go.
Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not a terrible thing.
The United Kingdom is forcing Meta to sell off Giphy. Who’s next?
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to work in the metaverse. It will cost you.
The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.”
Four theories on why ad sales are plummeting even as the economy is doing fine.
It looks like the boom days are fading in Big Tech, even if the cash is still flowing.
How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.
A year after her revelations, Haugen says some things have improved but many problems remain.
Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.
A (mostly) post-pandemic update.
For the sixth episode of its new season, Land of the Giants tells the story of how the messaging app became incredibly popular — and powerful — around the globe.