For study and the office Christmas party

Social notworking site Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services.

Hides anti-Google ranters pro-Facebook bias

Apple’s favourite newspaper, the New York Times, has published anti-Google rants from those who represent Facebook.

Never mind the Russians

Social notworking site Facebook uncovered a cunning plan by the Saudi Arabian government to run a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook to promote state propaganda and attack rivals.

They are all seen as the bad guys

US people have lost faith that Big Technology companies are that good since the last presidential campaign in 2015.

Firefox is unhappy

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have found 12 major bugs in Facebook's transparency API which it says needs significant work if it is going help journalists and researchers with transparency ahead of looming elections.

Will comply with regulations after all

Facebook appears to have been reassuring Congress that its new Libra payments will comply with financial regulations.

Data leak detected

Researchers at Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania who had nothing better to do looked at 22,484 porn sites and found that 93 per cent of them were leaking data to a third party.

No proof of sexual misconduct and racist slurs

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief won't be returning to his job after being accused of sexual misconduct and slurs that included racist remarks about Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan.

I am worried about everything

Apple co-founder and dancing queen Steve Wozniak has said that he is getting worried about everything these days – particularly Facebook.

There is a lot of hate in France

Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges.