Facebook owner Meta Platforms was fined $1.3 billion by EU privacy regulators for sending user information to the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook parent Meta has told employees that it will be implementing a hiring freeze and will be taking more steps to reduce the company’s costs, according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook has slowed the rollout of new products and put a hold on some work on existing products while it examines their impact on children and how the company may be criticized, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, people familiar with the matter said on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by the FTC in its probe into whether Facebook has violated U.S. antitrust laws, according to a person familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Breaking: FTC considers seeking an injunction against Facebook related to antitrust that could limit how its apps interact, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Facebook plans to pay a minority of publishers whose headlines will be featured in its coming news section, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Facebook's FTC settlement would require Mark Zuckerberg to personally certify compliance on privacy in the future, a person familiar with the matter says on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld7 years ago
Fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page removed bbc.in
@guardian9 years ago
Facebook temporarily blocks Black Lives Matter activist after he posts racist email trib.al
@WSJ2 years ago
Meta is paying BuzzFeed millions of dollars to bring more creators to Facebook and Instagram, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Meta has begun telling publishers in the U.S. that it won’t renew contracts to feature their content in its Facebook News tab, according to people familiar with the matter, phasing out deals that paid some outlets tens of millions of dollars on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said that Facebook allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Ireland’s privacy regulator sent Facebook a preliminary order to suspend data transfers to the U.S. about its EU users, according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Disney dramatically slashed ad spending on Facebook, people familiar with the matter say, as a boycott against the social-media giant grows on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook is discussing potential changes to its policy for running political ads, according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
State attorneys general are formally launching antitrust probes into Facebook and Google starting next week, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Facebook unearthed internal emails that appear to show Mark Zuckerberg knew of potentially problematic privacy practices at the company, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page run by Australian union official – report trib.al
@guardian9 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg tells Facebook staff to stop defacing Black Lives Matter slogans trib.al
@WSJ2 years ago
Breaking: Mark Zuckerberg said Meta layoffs will start Wednesday, telling executives he was overoptimistic about growth, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Meta's lawyers are investigating Sheryl Sandberg's use of Facebook resources for personal projects going back several years, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook is nearing a deal to buy Kustomer, a startup that specializes in customer-service platforms and chatbots, that would value the company at about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stoked concerns about TikTok in meetings last fall with officials and lawmakers, people familiar with the matter said on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Breaking: The FTC is considering deposing Facebook executives Zuckerberg and Sandberg as part of an antitrust investigation, people familiar with the matter said on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook will feature headlines from The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, others in its coming news section, people familiar with the matter say on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Breaking: Facebook is offering news outlets millions of dollars to license content in a news tab the company hopes to launch this year, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld7 years ago
To the Facebook algorithm, the content of an idea is irrelevant. Extremist. Mainstream. It doesn’t matter. Only its ability to draw engagement counts. nyti.ms
@guardian7 years ago
Fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page run by Australian union official – report trib.al
@WSJ9 years ago
RT @WSJdigits: Mark Zuckerberg Rips Facebook Employees for Defacing ‘Black Lives Matter’ on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Breaking: Facebook parent Meta plans to begin laying off thousands of employees this week, people familiar with the matter said on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Peter Thiel plans to leave the board of Facebook parent Meta, where he was the first outside investor and a director since 2005. Thiel intends to focus on helping GOP candidates in the midterm elections, a person familiar with the matter said. on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook is preparing emergency measures to try to calm potential unrest in the U.S. around the election, including slowing the spread of viral content and lowering the bar for suppressing potentially inflammatory posts, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg stoked concerns about TikTok in meetings last fall with officials and lawmakers, people familiar with the matter said on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook is backing away from selling ads in WhatsApp, an effort that had driven the app's creators to resign, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Facebook plans to exempt opinion pieces and satire from its fact-checking program, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Breaking: The FTC’s antitrust probe of Facebook is examining whether the company used acquisitions to neutralize potential rivals, say people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Australian union officials who ran fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page fired trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Fake Black Lives Matter Facebook page run by Australian union official – report trib.al