Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team who has turned whistleblower, appeared before a parliamentary sele...

US Senator Richard Blumenthal called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the committee, and for the US SEC and FTC to invest...

During a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how Facebook entices users to kee...

"The core of the issue is that no one can understand Facebook's destructive choices better than Facebook, because only Facebook gets to loo...

The whistleblower, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, asserted that a 2018 change to the content flow in Facebook's news feeds...

Critics say that a co that cannot keep human trafficking, hate speech and the live-streaming of suicides off its platform should not be tru...

The hearing in front of the Senate consumer protection subcommittee was called after the Wall Street Journal published several stories earl...

Facebook has been under fire since the Wall Street Journal reported — citing internal documents — that the social media company was aware t...

"This whistleblower's testimony will be critical to understanding what Facebook knew about its platforms' toxic effects on young users, whe...

The appearance of the Facebook and Twitter CEOs could be contingent on them testifying jointly alongside Sundar Pichai, chief executive of ...

Twitter and Facebook have both slapped a misinformation label on some content from Trump, most notably his assertions linking voting by mai...

Biden, now President-elect, has also said he favors repealing Section 230. Congressional Democrats, however, prefer a more deliberate appro...

The chief executives of Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google called the law crucial to free expression on the internet. They...

The hearing will discuss a legal immunity known as Section 230 that technology companies have when it comes to liability over content poste...

The scrutiny shows the risks for a corporate titan like Facebook, which already faces deep skepticism in Washington, of moving into a contr...

Zuckerberg said he was willing to consider new restrictions, and agreed to send Congress suggestions. "Your user agreement sucks," one Sena...

In the hearings, Zuckerberg not only tried to restore public trust in his company but also to stave off federal regulations that some lawma...