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The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

Facebook will start labeling all U.S. posts about voting to send users authoritative information about the elections

Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing any of the company’s stated penalties, according to leaked materials reviewed by NBC News. According to internal discussions from the last six months, Facebook has relaxed its rules so that conservative pages, including those run by Breitbart, former Fox News personalities Diamond and Silk,...

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet were careful not to say too much as they were grilled by lawmakers on the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust last Wednesday. But internal documents released by the committee after the hearing say plenty. The release is a curated selection of the 1.3 million documents collected by the committee during its more than year-long investigation into competition concerns with the...

Facebook’s Instagram is launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels

Facebook removed a video post from President Donald Trump’s personal page on Wednesday that included a segment from a Fox News interview in which the president said children are “almost immune” to COVID-19.

The New York Times does a deep dive into how much Facebook actually knows about you, your habits, interests and personality quirks and explains what’s happening with all that data.

The social media giant rented all of the office space in the James A. Farley Building near Penn Station, which is 107 years old and has 730,000 square feet

The leaders of big tech companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were interrogated by Congress on Capitol Hill this week for misusing their market power. Erik Gordon, a professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, joined LX News to discuss how much power Congress really has to rein in these digital giants.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Jimmy Fallon) testifies before Congress to defend his company’s business practices.

Four Big Tech CEOs are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry

Lawmakers accuse tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of creating monopolies and harming public discourse in fiery anti-trust hearing.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, criticized Facebook’s decision to remove a viral video of doctors claiming hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the decision saying that “some of the data suggests it might be harmful to people, we think we should take that down. That could cause imminent risk of harm.”

House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D, R.I., questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about his company’s treatment of Yelp. “The choice Google gave Yelp was, ’Let us steal your content or effectively disappear from the web,’” said Cicilline. “Mr. Pichai, isn’t that anti-competitive?”

Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple will face Congress Wednesday after a more than year long anti-trust investigation. They’re facing accusations of unfairly favoring their own products in the digital marketplaces they operate from Congress.

Google announced on Monday that it is extending its work from home option through June 2021 due to the coronavirus.

With just 100 days until Election Day, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden aren’t just attacking one another in online ads.

Facebook added an information label to a post from President Donald Trump on Tuesday in which he claimed mail-in voting would lead to “the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History,” directing users to a nonpartisan government website with facts about absentee and early voting. The social media giant announced last week it would be labeling but not fact-checking posts from...

The Walt Disney Co. is the latest company to slash its advertising on Facebook and Instagram.