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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg about the platform's efforts to control election disinformation.

The tech giants' vaccine requirements could push other employers to follow suit.

A former Facebook employee compared the social network to Big Tobacco at a Senate hear17%ing on Tuesday, saying the company has hidden what it knows about the problems its products cause.

The U.K.-based firm made headlines for using data from Facebook users without their permission. Video also showed its executives describing campaign tactics of entrapment.

Facebook parent company Meta is letting a two-year ban on Donald Trump, imposed after the then-president's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, expire.

It's grabbed a lot of headlines, but the evidence on social media and teen mental health — including that Facebook and Instagram research — is far from a smoking gun.

"We can do a lot better," said Laura Edelson, lead author of a new study on Facebook's ad program. "This is not the state of the art of content moderation, or detection of problematic content."

Authorities say that about 40 people may have watched the rapes of a 15-year-old girl that were streamed on the social media platform — and that none of them reported the crimes.

How can one company be so wildly successful — and so thoroughly distrusted? Tech writer Steven Levy reflects on Facebook's enigmatic leader and its drive for expansion in his new book.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence on the controversy surrounding allegations that Cambridge Analytica exploited users' data. And, Congress unveils a $1.3 trillion spending bill.