Carnegie Mellon teams up with Facebook, Google for COVID-19 survey

The university’s goal is to collect information that could help researchers in forecasting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 Big Tech CEOs getting heat from Congress on competition

Four Big Tech CEOs are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry.

Facebook's voting labels on candidate posts sow confusion

This week, the social network applied labels to posts by President Donald Trump and by Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, among others.

Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts - even Trump’s

“The policies we’re implementing today are designed to address the reality of the challenges our country is facing and how they’re showing up across our community,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page announcing the changes.

Facebook and Instagram will let users turn off political ads ahead of 2020 election

The feature will allow people to turn off all social issue, electoral or political ads from candidates, Super PACs or other organizations that have the "Paid for by" disclaimer on them.

Zuckerberg still under fire over refusal to take action on inflammatory Trump posts

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t budging over his refusal to take action on inflammatory posts by President Donald Trump that spread misinformation about voting by mail and, many said, encouraged violence against protesters.

Facebook will begin allowing some employees to work from home permanently

Speaking from an internal staff meeting that was livestreamed on his Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will allow some of its employees to work from home permanently. 

Socially Distant Fest provides 'virtual stage' for performers

It's a music festival where the stage never goes dark and fans can come and go as they please. No, we're not talking about Woodstock -- this is Socially Distant Fest.

Facebook to warn users who 'liked' coronavirus hoaxes

The social media company says it's going to notify users if they liked, reacted or commented on harmful misinformation removed from Facebook's news feed.

Facebook acknowledges a bug is blocking coronavirus news

Facebook says a bug in its anti-spam system is blocking the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus.

Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook settlement of a class-action lawsuit

Privacy advocates hail Illinois' strict biometric privacy law as the nation's strongest form of protection in the commercial use of such data, and it has survived ongoing efforts by the tech industry and other businesses to weaken it.