Facebook on Thursday filed a lawsuit against an engineer whose firm provided software designed to circumvent ad review systems, enabling deceptive ads to run on Facebook and Instagram. The firm, ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

With 1.3 billion daily users, the Facebook site and its apps are the most-used pieces of software in the world. Only a handful of software companies have ascended to a similar echelon of ubiquity, ...

Have you noticed that Facebook is getting better at making suggestions for people to tag in the photos that you have uploaded? Facebook will only get better at identifying faces thanks to advances in ...

Over the past 15 years, Facebook has changed the way we keep in touch with friends, how we feud with family members, how we think about privacy, and how we consume Russian propaganda---not always for ...

High-profile videos involving the police and the black community have put a spotlight on the mess that is Facebook's censorship policies. We've put together the FAQ Facebook lacks to help you ...

Facebook has provided more information on the reason for its global outage yesterday that lasted six hours and likely cost the company tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue. The root cause: a ...

For those who do not have the slightest idea, it is possible to download Facebook videos. In this post, we will show you how to download Public and Private Facebook videos using Facebook video ...

Facebook has released a library of C++ software components used to help run its site, the social networking company announced Saturday. By releasing this library, called Folly, Facebook will be able ...

Software testing before deployment can be a long, winding and tedious process because software development itself is a complex process. At Facebook Inc., where apps are used by hundreds of millions of ...

Facebook Inc. is donating another of its internally developed tools to the open-source software community. The social media giant said it’s adding the F14 hash table, which it uses to manage vast ...

Will this tower of virtual blocks fall over? Facebook has trained up software that knows the answer. Facebook software has learned to accurately predict whether precariously balanced virtual blocks ...