Facebook Doubles Down On Misusing Your Phone Number
By Gennie Gebhart When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double…
Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting” “Troll Report” & Political Targeting in Interview
By Project Veritas Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan…
Facebook, Robot Vacuum Cleaner and Pro-Surveillance Politician Voted Worst Privacy Intruders in Czech Republic
By Filip Stojanovski What do two Czech state entities, one Silicon Valley giant and one vacuum cleaner have in common? They were all winners in…
Facebook Censors News Outlets Critical of US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media
By Jessica Corbett (CD) — Journalists and advocates of press freedoms are once more directing outrage and criticism at Facebook for selectively censoring pages on its platform…
Deep Dive: FTC Negotiating Multi-Billion Dollar Fine For Facebook’s Privacy Scandals; Violating 2011 Accord
By Aaron Kesel Facebook is being accused by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of privacy violations and is in the midst of negotiating over a…
Facebook “Exploring Additional Measures” to Fight Anti-Vaccine Information: Report
By Jason Erickson As the “fake news” phenomenon continues to sweep across the Web, and the purge of independent media accelerates, lawmakers are calling on…
Government to Facebook Pipeline Reveals a Corrupt Mix of Social Media and the State
By Matt Agorist As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, the phrase “Facebook is a private company” is not accurate as they have formed…
Journalist Given Six Months in Prison for Organizing Yellow Vests Protest on Facebook
By Elias Marat As the Yellow Vests gear up for their tenth consecutive week of protests, dubbed “Act X” by the grassroots social movement, President…
Does Facebook Lie To Users & Congress, Too?
Op-Ed By Catherine J. Frompovich Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and…
As Hemp Legalized, Facebook Now Banning Hemp Pages in Apparent Move to Protect Big Pharma
By Matt Agorist Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to…
While Censoring Voices, Facebook Let Big Tech Companies Read & Delete Private Messages
By Mac Slavo While in the middle of a full-blown censorship scandal and other issues, Facebook has been caught allowing Big Tech companies the ability…
Facebook Bug Exposed Millions of Users’ Private Photos, Here’s How to See if You Were Affected
By Matt Agorist On Friday, the tech giant Facebook announced yet another security bug in which the platform allowed third parties access to a user’s…
Facebook Fails: Sought Patents To Predict Where You Are Going, Fact Checkers Losing Trust, Alternative Media Targeted
By Aaron Kesel Three creepy Facebook patent applications describe using your historical location data — and others’ — to determine where users will go next…
Inviting The Data Collectors In: Facebook’s New Portal Device Is Company’s Ultimate Trust Test
By Joseph Jankowski Facebook’s new Portal in-home calling device has just gone on sale in the United States. While there isn’t yet much data showing the…