Yearly checks on tech firm compliance over harmful content, plus stiff financial penalties part of EU's proposed regulation of digital…
Australia files lawsuit against Facebook over its data collection practices associated with its discontinued Onavo Protect VPN app
Escaping GDPR protections? Social networking giant Facebook insists move will not change privacy controls or the services it offers
German competition authority reacts after company requires Facebook login to use new Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets
Significant outage for a number of Facebook services including Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram on Thursday for thousands of users
Breakup threat. Social networking giant sued by federal regulator and US states, and could be forced to sell WhatsApp, Instagram
Google and Facebook continue to object, but Australia presses ahead with new law to force them to pay publishers for…
Trump's parting shot? US Department Of Justice after two year investigation, files lawsuit against Facebook over hiring practices
Conspiracy clampdown. Social networking giant Facebook follows YouTube lead in banning false and misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines
President Trump warns that unless Section 230 liability protection for social networking firms is removed, he will veto a major…
Facebook removes more than 2,000 ads exploiting health fears and selling dubious Covid-19 cures in first half of 2020 as…
Competition and Markets Authority to implement tougher competition laws on tech giants such as Facebook and Google in 2021
Libra to launch as early as January, but the Facebook backed cryptocurrency will be scaled back even further after regulatory…
New European rules to rein in big name tech firms will include the power to potentially break-up firms, EU digital…
Major social networking platforms team up with the UK government and Full Fact Chariy to fight misleading information about Coronavirus
No love for Twitter. Russia's parliament has prepared draft legislation that will allow Moscow to ban US social networking giants
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face four hours of questioning on Tuesday by US Senate members over content moderation and…
Email to advertisers confirms Facebook plan to extend its ban on political adverts in the United States for another month
Messaging titan to implement setting to allow for “disappearing messages” option after seven days, in an effort to bolster privacy
US President Donald Trump has had his posts on Monday about mail-in voting fraud flagged by both social networking platforms
Proposed Digital Services Act would force tech giants to explain their ad targeting algorithms and open ad archives to researchers,…
Facebook confirmed it is placing limits on algorithmic group recommendations ahead of this week's US elections as company cracks down…
US judge sets mid-November deadline for Google's response to Justice Department antitrust lawsuit, with a status update at the end…
Joe Biden campaign team slams Facebook for blocking adverts in crucial week before US presidential election on 3 November
Senate panel probing of tech CEOs highlights party differences, with grandstanding politicians deemed 'petty' by some observers
Over two years since it happened, and Facebook is still facing legal consequences of Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal
Missing Mark...CEOs of both Google and Twitter defend law before Senate panel that exempts social networking firms from liability for…
Facebook tells New York University researchers to stop collecting data on how it targets political ads, with days to go…
Two years after it was first mooted, Facebook oversight board which can overrule Mark Zuckerberg on content matters, starts hearing…
Watch out Zoom! WhatsApp is reportedly deliver voice and video calling to WhatsApp Web, its desktop based offering