Politics May 23

Twitter says the move is to provide users with "authentic information" and prevent spoofed and fake accounts from fooling users. The labels will include what office a person is running for and where.

Nation Apr 24

The updated community standards will mirror the rules its 7,600 moderators use to review questionable posts, then decide if they should be pulled off Facebook. And sometimes whether to call in the authorities.

Nation Apr 09

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to speak at 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday in a joint hearing before two Senate committees. Watch live here.

Nation Apr 06

Anyone who's been wondering if their private Facebook data might have been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal will soon get their first clues.

World Mar 25

Facebook defends its data collection and sharing activities by noting that it's adhering to a privacy policy it shares with users, but activity isn’t limited to pages or posts.

Nation Mar 22

But those steps don't get at what many outsiders see as bigger problems at Facebook: its rampant data collection from users, its embrace of political ads that target individuals, and its apparent inability to end malicious use of its service…

Politics Oct 31

Leaders from the tech giant promised a Senate subcommittee they would do more to stop the misuse of their platforms by foreign nations.

Nation Oct 30

The company says the total number of agency posts accounted for less than 1 of every 23,000 posts on Facebook.

Nation Oct 24

Twitter says it will require ads that refer to a candidate or party to be clearly identified as election ads.

Nation Oct 18

Previously, Facebook declined to make the ads public. While Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, now favors the release, she didn't say Thursday when the company would do so.