A slate of research papers published Thursday suggest that the algorithms that drive Facebook and Instagram are not entirely to blame for those platform’s political polarization, as some previously ...

On Facebook, you might see a fair number of news articles shared by friends supporting Republican presidential candidates as the race heats up. Even if you’re a Democrat. The site’s News Feed ranking, ...

Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his ...

Earlier this year, Facebook was found to be paying users consisting mostly of teenagers $20 per month in exchange for their device data. The data mining activity drew flak, of course, as it reportedly ...

Facebook’s new Study app will track how you use your phone and provide that data to the social media giant. The company will even pay you for it — but likely not very much, especially compared to the ...

A new nine-month Media Matters study of Facebook pages that regularly post about American political news looked at two different measures of performance and found that right-leaning pages outperformed ...

Researchers claim Facebook isn't enforcing policies on COVID-19 misinformation. At least until June 2021, Facebook had significant gaps in its efforts to tackle COVID-19 misinformation from one of the ...

Publishers of misinformation on Facebook got six times more engagement than factual news, a new study says. Facebook said engagement, which includes likes and shares, does not show how many people saw ...