Why Did Instagram Remove Summer Walker’s Post Criticizing the KKK?
White supremacist groups are thriving on social media, but platforms like Instagram are silencing those who speak out against racist hate.
Facebook Struggles to Keep Buffalo Shooting Video Offline
Despite the content moderator’s best efforts, the shooter’s manifesto and video of the attacks are still proliferating across social media.
Facebook’s New AI System Has a ‘High Propensity’ for Racism and Bias
The company’s AI researchers say its new language model is generating ‘toxic’ results that often reinforce stereotypes.
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing With Your Data
Leaked documents show that the social media giant has no idea where all that information it collects on you ends up.
Lawmakers Call For Better Facebook User Data Oversight
After a Motherboard article showed that Facebook struggles to track what it does with user data, European and American lawmakers are calling for closer oversight.
Forgotten Architecture: The Weirdest Designs of the 20th Century
What began as a Facebook group for architecture nerds is now a book featuring radical – and downright strange – buildings by forgotten designers.
There Are Dozens of Facebook Groups Intentionally Spreading Islamophobia. Meta Refuses to Act.
A new report found that Facebook and other major platforms failed to act on 89% of the anti-Muslim posts reported to them.
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document
“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.
It Took Us Less Than 24 Hours to Order an Endangered Tiger on Facebook
Bears, pangolins, leopard cats: It’s shockingly easy to buy some of the most endangered species globally on the world's largest social media platform.
The Media’s Backdoor to Facebook That Scammers Use to Verify Accounts
Alleged “ghost agencies” advertise their privileged access to the “Facebook Media Partner Portal” for sale to scammers.
The Metaverse, Explained for People Who Still Don’t Get It
Is it just a buzzword, the next internet, a video game, or an idea? We asked experts to break it down for us.
Eye-Tracking Tech Is Another Reason the Metaverse Will Suck
Researchers are building new ways to track and analyze your every glance—and big tech platforms like Facebook are already looking to make their own.