What Facebook does say is that advertisers don’t get the raw data. They just tell Facebook what kind of people they want their ads to reach, then Facebook makes the matches and shows the ads.

Facebook's algorithms use this information to create a profile for non-users, which may include details like the person's name, email address, phone number and other personal data.

Facebook has an impeccable memory. After downloading my stored data on the site — I've been a member since 2004 — I was presented with an enormous amount of personal details that have been ...

Facebook says on its ad-targeting site that it sells ads based on the information consumers share with it, as well as which ads they click on, which apps and websites they use, and information ...

That Facebook collects data about its users has never exactly been much of a secret. But the recent cloud of controversy hovering above the company — sparked by a wave of reports about how ...

Facebook brought a group of reporters to the new Building 23 at its Menlo Park headquarters to preview the changes today. But feedback was heavily critical as journalists grilled Facebook’s ...

The personal information of about half a billion Facebook users, including their phone numbers, have been posted to a website used by hackers, cybersecurity experts say. There are records for more ...

Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” misinformation about when and how to vote in the US midterms, as well as about the integrity of the voting process, according ...

Instead, the companies shared that personal information with Google and Facebook, some going as far back as 2011, members of Congress wrote in a new report. Sign up. Advertisement.

Facebook will soon label all posts discussing the coronavirus vaccination with a pointer to official information about COVID-19, it said today.. It also revealed it has implemented some new ...

Yael Eisenstat, who was in a leadership position at Facebook in 2018, says people within the company have been warning for years about disinformation and how extreme voices are boosted on Facebook.

Facebook said it is "removing COVID-19 related misinformation that could lead to imminent harm, applying warning labels from fact checkers and promoting authoritative information." ...