Taking a break from social media may come with real benefits, according to a major new study. Researchers at Stanford University asked about 36,000 Facebook and Instagram users to log off in the weeks ...

Story update after outage was resolved. Social media giant Facebook suffered a worldwide outage that prevented users from accessing their accounts. When visiting the site, users were greeted with a ...

PCWorld reports that hackers are increasingly using browser-in-the-browser (BITB) attacks to steal Facebook login credentials through sophisticated fake browser windows. Facebook’s large and diverse ...

Hackers over the past six months have relied increasingly more on the browser-in-the-browser (BitB) method to trick users into providing Facebook account credentials. Trellix researchers monitoring ...

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...

Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco For years, Alyssa Landguth, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Millions of people owed a piece of the massive $725 million Facebook privacy settlement have been receiving their payments. Are you feeling left out? The long-awaited payments started on ...

If you filed a claim in Facebook's $725 million privacy settlement, you could soon get a payment, according to the settlement's administrator. Millions of consumers who used Facebook over a 15-year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, July 20, 2025: This story, originally published on ...

Meta is testing a new way to create an account on Threads that will require a Facebook account to authenticate the login and base their profile on. This is not yet available to users as the option ...

Threads is testing letting you sign up with a Facebook account rather than an Instagram account. The new option, spotted by Social Media Today, doesn't appear to be widely available yet, but is ...

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