Wanted to get at Google

Facebook hired a public relations firm last year that wrote fake news critical of Google and conspiracy theories which claimed that George Soros was behind a growing anti-Facebook movement.

Sorry I'm washing my hair

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving into the questions around fake news.

Denmark, Ireland and Sweden block French moves

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire's efforts to get the European Union colleagues around a new tax on tech giants have stalled.

If he turns up it will be a rough ride

British MPs want a word with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and if he shows up he will have a harder time than he did when he spoke to the US Senate.

Former Facebook CSO Alex Stamos claims Apple is doing dirty deeds with Chinese data

While the tame Apple Press is praising CEO Tim Cook’s stance of data protection, the former security boss at Facebook Alex Stamos said there is a double standard at play.

Cambridge Analytica row fine small but symbolic

Britain’s information regulator upheld a small but symbolic £500,000 fine against Facebook for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

May not be seeing eye to eye with his masters

Brendan Iribe, the co-founder and former CEO of Oculus, announced he has quit Facebook after some internal company shake-ups.

To hang in their garden for the crows to peck

Public fund investors want Mark Zuckerberg out as chairman of Facebook.

Ignored by most websites

Those who think that switching their browser to “do not track” will prevent companies spying on them are wasting their time.

Data scraping

Facebook has disabled dozens of accounts and profiles belonging to Russian database provider SocialDataHub for what it termed the unauthorised collection of user data.