Facebook on Tuesday announced it's shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting individual facial recognition templates for more than a billion people. "The many specific instances where ...

Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a social network built on the viral sharing of user posts. The ...

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Meta came up with a new way to track its users. Facebook Link History stores a list of websites and webpages that users have gone to from their Facebook feed. The ...

In February, Facebook said it would step up enforcement of its prohibition against discrimination in advertising for housing, employment or credit. But our tests showed a significant lapse in the ...

Facebook has a big problem with fake accounts — and the company knows it. In just three months, Facebook might take down almost as many fake accounts as there are real ones on the site. The social ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...