Fittingly for the new age of social science, the data come from Facebook—which allows for the kind of sophisticated network analysis that previous generations of scholars could have only dreamed ...

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ ...

Facebook just made what appears to be another "acqui-hire," with the purchase of Threadsy, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that went on to make a marketing tool called Swaylo. The terms were ...

By social capital, academics generally mean all the parts of society that, without being explicitly political, foster links and bridges of common sympathy and trust.

It's said that opposites attract. However, in social media, it's quite the opposite. The idea of privacy and publicity are in fact at odds with one another. And at the heart of the matter, one ...

Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former vice president for user growth and currently founder and CEO of the Social Capital partnership, was asked last month at a Stanford Graduate School of ...

According to this former Facebook executive, social media is a monster that is out of control. But there's a solution.

Alt-right fringe groups have flocked to alternative social networks as Facebook and Twitter clamp down on hate speech and false election fraud claims.

A judge ruled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and former directors of the social-media company must face claims they turned a blind eye to rampant privacy violations, including allowing a firm ...

True, a budding social platform with $15 million in backing from Microsoft veteran Paul Maritz, takes aim at Facebook by rejecting user tracking and targeted ads ...