The research shows that across 152 counties, 38% of Black residents in the rural South have no home internet access, compared to 23% of white residents.
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.
Twitch says a breach took place Wednesday morning, but the company has not provided further details about what kind of information was released and how many users were affected.
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen electrified Washington on Tuesday with testimony about how the company knew about potential harm to users and decided to hide that information.
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.
When a company can't use the internet's core protocols, it's as if its online domains simply don't exist. That happened to Facebook, creating a cascade of problems.
The Facebook whistleblower testifies before a Senate subcommittee today. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal will be chairing that hearing and in advance of it he speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
The initiative helps connect users with information, tools and connections if they want to launch their own campaigns. Republicans and Democrats are partnering with Snapchat's parent company.
Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.
The internet pounced on a senator's clumsy ask that Facebook end "finsta," but there was more to take away from a recent hearing about how Congress understands Big Tech.
The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, asserted in an interview with 60 Minutes that Facebook repeatedly made decisions that benefited the company's own interests at the expense of protecting the public.
The social network says the Federal Trade Commission's complaint is "without legal or factual support." The agency alleges Facebook buys promising rivals to stifle competition.
The person who shared damning documents about the company is expected to reveal her identity on Sunday. Legal experts say Facebook may target her with legal action.
