Right-leaning news and politics pages on Facebook continue to outperform nonaligned and left-leaning pages in 2021. These pages have used the company’s algorithm, which rewards sensational content, to ...

Over the past year, right-leaning news and politics Facebook pages have dominated the conversation on the platform around trans issues -- earning almost twice as many interactions (reactions, comments ...

CNN says it will no longer publish content to Facebook in Australia. The decision comes after the country’s highest court ruled that media companies are liable for comments people post under articles ...

Facebook has confronted whistleblowers, PR firestorms and Congressional inquiries in recent years. But now it faces a combination of all three at once in what could be the most intense and ...

Facebook announced Thursday that it’s running a test to give users a sliver more control over what they see on the platform. Image Credits: Facebook The test will go live on Facebook’s app for English ...

The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” By Davey Alba and Ryan Mac When Facebook this week released its first quarterly report about the most ...

A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will show that misinformation got six times as much engagement on Facebook as real news, ...

Update: After this story published, Facebook took down two of the five troll-farm pages we identified. In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most ...

Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others. By Ryan Mac and Cecilia Kang John Tye, the founder ...