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Facebook CEO has meet officials, including Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, about its planned crypto-currency

Facebook plans its own crypto-currency GlobalCoin

Business / 24 May

Facebook said the "inauthentic" activity originated in Israel and focused on Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Angola, Niger and Tunisia as well as in Latin America and Southeast Asia

Facebook removes 'fake' accounts

Business / 16 May

Facebook set to bar 'dangerous' people from posting live graphic videos on its platform

Facebook to crack down on live-streaming violence

Science and Technology / 15 May

Evan Spiegel called the European approach well-meaning but potentially self-defeating

GDPR boosting dominance of Google & Facebook - Snap CEO

News Lens / 14 May

Chris Hughes: "The most problematic aspect of Facebook's power is Mark's unilateral control over speech"

Break up Facebook, says company's co-founder

Business / 10 May

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he could not guarantee that the platform would not be manipulated during the EU elections

Inside Facebook's European election war room

Elections 2019 / 05 May

Sixty researchers from 30 academic institutions across 11 countries were selected by an independent group to carry out the research

Facebook joins research into social media and elections

technology / 29 Apr

Amazon has expanded from its origins in e-commerce to cloud services, streaming media, artificial intelligence and brick-and-mortar grocery stores

New sector growth helps Amazon to record Q1 profits

Business / 26 Apr

Facebook fixed the flaw after uncovering it January

DPC launch investigation over Facebook password storage

Facebook / 25 Apr

The meeting will be co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Paris summit aims to banish extremism on social media

Facebook said that users whose contacts were imported will be notified

Facebook uploaded email contacts of 1.5 million users

Business / 18 Apr

Laleh Shahravesh was held under Dubai's controversial cyber-crime laws

Woman held in Dubai over Facebook post returns to UK

Is Facebook really changing for the better?

Orders require Facebook to give Miriam O'Callaghan's lawyers basic subscriber information, payment method details and business manager account information

O'Callaghan granted High Court order against Facebook

Courts / 05 Apr

Facebook said it had taken down the databases once it was made aware of them

Facebook removes user data visible on Amazon servers

Business / 04 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg said the social network is in an ongoing 'arms race'

Facebook in 'arms race' against malicious actors

technology / 02 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg said governments and regulators need "a more active role" in regulating social media and the internet

Zuckerberg to visit Facebook's Dublin offices

Business / 01 Apr

The tech giant is at the early stages of exploring the news surface idea

Facebook looks to create new high-quality news section

technology / 01 Apr

Mark Zuckerberg argues that new regulations are needed in four areas: harmful content, protection of elections, privacy and data portability

Govts need 'more active' role in regulating internet

Facebook identified over 900 different videos showing portions of the gun attack on two Mosques in New Zealand.

Facebook to tighten rules on live streaming videos

Technical checks are to be used by Facebook to confirm the identity and location of advertisers

Facebook tightens paid ads rules ahead of EU elections

Business / 29 Mar

The ban will apply to both the core Facebook app and Instagram

Facebook to ban white nationalism and separatism

Passwords were stored in plain text, readable by employees

Facebook admits user passwords were not stored securely

News Lens / 21 Mar

The company said the issue has been repaired

Millions of Facebook user passwords found to be exposed

Business / 21 Mar

Facebook said it was considering whether to refund advertisers for lost exposure due to the problems

Facebook restores services after global outage

Science and Technology / 14 Mar

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