News and analysis for all things Facebook and Meta, its parent company.
Nearly a year into the pandemic, Facebook now aims to take down misinformation on vaccines overall — not just Covid-19 vaccines.
With one big exception.
The number of active hate groups in the US is falling as they find new places to hide online.
Angry CEOs, operating system updates, and maybe even a lawsuit — the feud continues.
Breaking up companies like Amazon and Facebook has rare bipartisan support but different rationale.
Facebook asked its independent oversight board to decide if it made the right call when it indefinitely suspended Trump.
What happens when the former leader of the free world gets deplatformed? We’re going to find out.
Social media abuse from political figures isn’t just a Trump problem, and banning him won’t solve it.
Are Facebook’s efforts to reduce misinformation after the Capitol attack too little, too late?
The big platforms finally policed Donald Trump. But there’s no one — really — to police the platforms except their owners and employees.
Republican Section 230 reform is dead. Long live Democratic Section 230 reform.
The social media company is giving you more information about your information.
The largely unmoderated, conservative friendly website is back in the news following insurrection at the Capitol.
Facebook and Twitter have been scrambling to limit Trump’s reach after the insurrection on Capitol Hill.
Neither the media nor fact-checkers controlled the online conversation surrounding “misinformation” this year.
Mike Troncoso is a former top aide to Kamala Harris, so this move is stirring speculation about a move to the White House.
Posts that discourage and make fun of Covid-19 vaccination are racking up engagement.
The move comes as false rumors about Covid-19 vaccines are surging online.
An extended pause on political ads had complicated the Senate runoffs.
A Trump administration plan to use celebrities has been scrapped, but other vaccine education campaigns are turning to influencers to boost Covid-19 inoculation.
Experts told Recode it’s possible that Facebook will be forced to sell both apps, but not anytime soon.
Democrats are paying attention after a surprising number of Latino voters in swing states supported Trump.
President Obama loved the internet. Now he has second thoughts.
America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation.
Stop the Steal gained more than 350,000 members on Facebook in less than a day.
The company says it has mostly fixed the “technical problems” that prevented some Biden and Trump ads from running.
Despite antitrust investigations and a recession, Big Tech is doing great.
We took a closer look at the unproven claims lawmakers made about Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
In the end, the Section 230 hearing didn’t have much to do with Section 230.
On Tuesday, the president yet again spread misleading information about voting on Twitter and Facebook.
You can now complain to the board about Facebook taking down your posts.
Trump wants the FCC to help him rewrite Section 230, the law that protects the internet as we know it. But the agency isn’t that powerful.
Scrutiny over a New York Post article is reviving accusations of anti-conservative bias at social media companies.
The billionaire Facebook founder is making the most expensive electoral play of his career to allow higher property taxes on California businesses.
Rep. Tom Malinowski has been attacked by QAnon adherents. He says Facebook’s ban isn’t nearly enough.
A feeding frenzy has begun.
The report scrutinizes the ways the four biggest tech companies have amassed enormous market power.
Details of how well the company will enforce the new ban remain unclear.
Can anyone stop QAnon?