We will withdraw investment if you don’t do what you are told.

Facebook threatened to pull investment projects from Europe and Canada if lobbying demands from COO Sheryl Sandberg were not met.

Social networking is privacy watchdog’s main concern

An office that’s responsible for enforcing European data privacy laws against many of the biggest US tech firms is spending much of its time on one company: Facebook.

It keeps breaking the rules

Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subject to a new regulator to protect democracy and citizens’ rights, British lawmakers said.

Who needs clouds when you can zap things in space

Facebook is about to get a laser communication system which can chat to satellites in space and put pictures of cats into orbit.

Some linked to state-owned news agency Sputnik

Facebook has removed hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts, which it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platforms.

I am sorry Dave I am erasing your nipples

Intel is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year.

Washington DC attorney-general washes his briefs

The attorney general for Washington, DC, filed a civil lawsuit against Facebook claiming the social notworking outfit failed to protect its users' data and pointing specifically to the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Uses your IP address

Even if you explicitly tell Facebook to not track your location, it will still use your IP address to track your location.

Considered them exempt from privacy rules

Facebook documents, found by the New York Times, show that the social network considered Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, and the Royal Bank of Canada business partners and effectively exempted them from its privacy rules.

Building 8 closed and its work is distributed

Facebook has disbanded its secretive research lab, where the company developed new hardware like its Portal speakers and researched moonshot projects like brain computer interfaces.