While trying to map the extent and impact of place-based Facebook groups where QAnon and allied disinformation spread, I went looking for Facebook groups with names including 10, 11, or 12. This was ...

It happens every year whether you want it to or not: your Facebook wall is assaulted by people you haven't heard from in six years with birthday greetings. The one-line exclamations tend to be the ...

It’s a great way to build consensus or get an idea of how most people feel about an issue. It’s a fantastic way to tell which ideas are popular and which are not. But it’s a terrible way to tell ...

If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to start is with users such as John, Michelle, and Calvin. John, a caps-lock devotee from ...

Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

Allen is a PhD student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT In 1907, statistician Francis Galton ...

One thing that has always been clear is that Meta is always interested in evolving the social media platforms that the company has created. In December 2025, the company announced that one of its ...

Facebook owner Meta is planning to introduce chatbots with distinct personalities to its social media app. The launch could come as soon as this September and would be a challenge to rivals like ...

Facebook Messenger brings all your Facebook and Instagram chats into one place, connecting you with your friends and family worldwide. It's among the best communication apps, with a large population ...

The appeal comes less than three months after the Ninth Circuit rejected similar arguments from the same objector lawyers in a $90 million class action settlement with Facebook about tracking user ...

Facebook’s parent company Meta is seriously struggling to keep pedophiles off its social media platforms. Earlier this year, the newspaper teamed up with researchers at Stanford and the University of ...