Catching the zeitgeist just as aggressively as the days when it first introduced the world to concepts like “roommates” and “people acting like assholes for attention on TV,” MTV has announced that its long-running reality series The Real World is making the move to Facebook video, that most reliable and profitable of…

It’s become widely accepted that a movie adapting a novel should use its source as a guide rather than a strict blueprint. If a change would improve the film, then that change should be made. The book isn’t sacred, nor should it be. This becomes more complicated when it comes to nonfiction. It’s one thing to tweak the…

If you’re wondering why Facebook asked you to put in your password for the first time in decades today, it’s because the social media juggernaut experienced a security breach impacting nearly 50 million user accounts. In a blog post, VP of Product Management Guy Rosen says “the attackers exploited a vulnerability in…

After a blisteringly funny opening spent compiling all the new shapes into which conservative commentators are contorting themselves in their frenzied mission to excuse yet another powerful accused Republican sex creep (Jeanine Pirro really needs to stop trying to make “Democratic demon rats” happen), John Oliver…

Hey, remember that time the biggest social media platform in the world was breached by a data harvesting company headed by Steve Bannon, leading to the private information of 50 million people being used for information warfare to get Trump elected, and Facebook knew about it for two years and did nothing?

YouTube has a far-right problem. The online video platform’s reluctance to actually deal with the wackos, nihilists, and hatemongers in its midst has been widely noted and critiqued, and today YouTube responded with a move that, frankly, has been a long time coming: It finally deleted The Alex Jones Channel. The…

Earlier this year, Facebook was rocked by a scandal that would’ve devastated a smaller company that hadn’t found a way to work its grubby fingers into every aspect of our lives, as a whistleblower revealed that a company called Cambridge Analytica had stolen the personal data of 87 million Facebook users for Donald…

Facebook continues to grapple with its role as a primary news source for people whose other primary news sources are things like “Stuff my uncle forwarded me” and “What details of the outside world I can half-derive from memes,” with Deadline reporting that the social media network has now shuttered its…

Facebook is still trying to make up for the massive whoopsie it admitted to earlier this year, when a Trump campaign-backed organization called Cambridge Analytica made off with the private data of 87 million people and Facebook did virtually nothing about it. CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured a Congressional testimony, the…

Facebook has taken a lot of heat lately for its reckless sharing of private data, a widening controversy—in tandem with concurrent controversies over misinformation in its news feed and an employee allegedly using user info to cyber-stalk women—that has seen founder Mark Zuckerberg congressionally poked, as many have…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was subject to one of the harshest punishments America can reserve for one of its rich white executives today, when the U.S. Congress forced him to have a five-minute, inescapable conversation with Texas senator Ted Cruz. Cruz—who seemed extremely upset at the idea that Facebook might have…

On any given day, it seems safe to assume that Mark Zuckerberg is probably very sorry. Maybe he’s sorry for how miserable Facebook makes us in general, maybe he’s sorry for allowing a firm working with the Donald Trump campaign to steal profile data from 50 million—make that 87 million—people, and maybe he’s sorry …

Things seemed bad enough for Facebook when it had to admit that a consulting firm working with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had used an app to pull profile data from 50 million of the site’s users, a breach so bad that it forced Mark Zuckerberg to issue one of his usual unsatisfying apologies, prompted the FTC …

Having already taken its toll on our relationships with our families, our government, and, in many ways, ourselves, Facebook has now accidentally set its sights on our love-lives, too. Select/All reports that the social media giant continued a pretty lousy run of weeks today by apparently temporarily bringing down…

Some important news today for anyone who bases their social media policies solely on the advice of top-tier former Saturday Night Live stars: Will Ferrell is quitting Facebook.

Attention, David Fincher: The framing device for the Social Network sequel we never really thought about until recently but sounds more intriguing every day has arrived. CNN Money reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has, in the news outlet’s words, “come to terms with the fact” that he’s going to have to testify…

Unsurprisingly, the fallout from Facebook’s failure to prevent a pro-Trump consulting firm from getting away with the personal information of 50 million users (and its subsequent failure to tell anyone the breach had happened) hasn’t stopped at it losing the trust of a majority of users. According to …

When last we wrote about the insane, hilariously complex number of in-jokes in the opening credits to HBO’s Silicon Valley, we hoped the ill-fated Juicero would make a cameo in the season five intro. The good news: It did! The better news: It wasn’t even the best new joke to be found.

It’s impossible to determine which social media platform has done the most damage to mankind, as Facebook and Twitter are just so very close, but it’s hard to deny that Facebook had been making a strong push over the last week or so. First, a story came out that a consulting group working with Donald Trump’s…

In what’s either a chilling demonstration of the predictive power of data mining or a totally obvious conclusion you didn’t have to pillage the social-media accounts of thousands of people to find out, Pitchfork reports on a 2015 study from Stanford University and Cambridge University’s Psychometrics Center that…