Daily Facebook users up again after first-ever decline
Facebook stopped losing users as 2022 got under way, even as its owner reported its slowest revenue growth in a decade. The number of daily...
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Facebook owner Meta sees biggest ever stock market loss
Facebook’s owner Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230bn (£169bn) on Thursday, in a record daily loss for a US...
Facebook earns $9bn despite whistleblower scandal
Facebook has posted better-than-expected profits for the third quarter, as it continues to face bad press over leaked internal documents. The social media giant made...
Facebook to hire 10,000 in EU to work on metaverse
Facebook is planning to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to develop a so-called metaverse. A metaverse is an online world where people can...
Facebook down: Zuckerberg apologises for six-hour outage
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the “disruption” caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours – impacting more than...
Facebook reverses ban on news pages in Australia
Facebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in Australia. The tech giant has blocked news to Australians on its platform since...
Facebook to open Nigeria office next year
US social media giant Facebook has announced it will be opening an office in Lagos, Nigeria, next year. It will be its second office on...
Tech bosses grilled over claims of ‘harmful’ power
The heads of some of the world’s biggest tech companies have appeared before Washington lawmakers to defend their firms against claims they abuse their power...
Facebook boss urges tighter regulation
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation of harmful online content, saying it was not for companies like his to decide what counts...
Facebook ‘to be fined $5bn over Cambridge Analytica scandal’
US regulators have approved a record $5bn (£4bn) fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations, reports in US media say. The...