Faith in big tech has plumetted
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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.

Mozilla says Facebook API is borked
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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.

Facebook marks shift in Libra balance
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Will comply with regulations after all

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

Facebook and Google monitoring porn use
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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.

Facebook’s security boss leaves
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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.

Woz warns people to get off Facebook
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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.

Facebook will tell the French government about hate speech
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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.

Facebook’s Libra expansion worries EU
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Libra will turn Facebook into a nation-state – and you can't trust a Libra

Facebook’s Bitcoin rival is already in hot water with EU regulators.

Facebook shareholders want Zuckerberg out
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The fact he is still there is proof of how much power they have

Independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals last week to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm's share structure.

Apple orders developers to snub Google and Facebook
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Developers might have to obey if they want their app approved

Fruity cargo cult Apple is ordering developers who want to sell on its App store that they must always place its login button above Google or Facebook.