Facebook has devised another way to “connect” you with some of the 2 billion people on its network. The social media giant said Friday to CNET that it’s testing out a new label called “things in ...

Twitter and Facebook are working to keep posts from President Donald Trump and others updated with clarifying labels about misleading and premature claims. Earlier Wednesday, the companies appended ...

Facebook announced it will begin adding labels to articles from Facebook Pages that show up in member news feeds as a way to provide more context for what kind of page produced the article. This a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facebook will soon add labels to news outlets owned or otherwise controlled by a government, marking that information as, if not ...

Mark Zuckerberg has a bold new plan to occasionally do something about content that violates Facebook's policies. Every now and then. When the company feels like it. Importantly, the new policy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facebook will soon label all posts discussing the coronavirus vaccination with a pointer to official information about COVID-19, ...

Throughout much of 2020, Facebook has been embroiled in yet another controversy, this time around its apparent unwillingness to remove posts that essential amount to attempts at voter suppression. A ...

Facebook will add labels to posts related to climate change, as part of its ongoing attempt to wrangle misinformation spreading on the platform. Amid the chaos that is Facebook's news ban in Australia ...

Although controversial right from its infancy, Facebook got into deep trouble because of its involvement in the 2016 US elections. Most of that centered the spread of misinformation, some of which ...

The president claims without any supporting evidence that he's "up big" in the vote count and that his political opponents are "trying to steal the election." Steven Musil is a senior news editor at ...

Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on breaking and trending news. She'd been reporting and editing for more than a decade, including at the National Journal and Current TV. Facebook's new ...