By Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel
Company documents show that the social network’s employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies before and after the contested November vote.
Published: October 21, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Nicole Perlroth
Hackers tied to the group Anonymous defaced a private version of the former president’s app, Truth Social, posting images of defecating pigs and explicative-laced rants.
Published: October 20, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Brian X. Chen
Buying a $1,000 iPhone can be equivalent to giving up $17,000 in retirement savings or 2,500 cups of coffee.
Published: October 19, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Sheera Frenkel, Ryan Mac and Mike Isaac
The app, hailed as Facebook’s growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.
Published: October 15, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Brian X. Chen
Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.
Published: October 5, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Raymond Zhong and Adam Satariano
The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.
Published: October 4, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Kevin Roose
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
Published: October 3, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Ryan Mac and Cecilia Kang
Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others.
Published: October 2, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all showed outage on Monday, according to the website downdetector.com.
Published: October 3, 2021 at 07:00PM
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By Mike Isaac
In an internal memo meant to pre-empt a “60 Minutes” interview, Facebook defended itself and said that social media was not a primary cause of polarization.
Published: October 1, 2021 at 07:00PM
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