It’s been more than two years since Facebook was publicly called out for dodgy video viewership metrics. In the months that followed, speculation was rife that the “mistakes” were intentional, in an attempt to bolster their “pivot to video” initiative...

Political ad, or independent journalism? That’s the crux of the issue in the hot debate between news organization The New York Times and social media platform/turned publisher Facebook. Earlier this spring, Facebook – under intense scrutiny to fix the fake...

Imagine a social platform where you could connect with the people and the information that’s important to you, minus the spam, the sleaze, and the intrusive advertising. Sounds great, right?  Now imagine paying that service around $7.63 a month. That’s...

More than 500 million new Facebook accounts were flagged as fraud and deleted in the first three months of 2018, according to Alfred Ng in C|Net, who explains that these accounts were blocked within minutes of being registered. “That's an...

In an effort to reestablish trust and reduce their liability in the fake news mess, Facebook has started ranking news organizations on its platform, boosting them in the news feed according to how trusted they are. But the way they’re...