According to the Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, advertisers will no longer be able target users based on their interest in certain "sensitive" categories. EPA/META HANDOUT Meta, the ...

On Oct. 4, 2021, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Messenger all went down for around six hours, starting before noon Eastern Daylight Time until just before 6 p.m. This disrupted the work of small ...

The adtech giant formerly known as Facebook is still tracking teens for ad targeting on its social media platforms, according to new research by Fairplay, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia — ...

Facebook has worked for years to revamp its handling of political ads — but researchers who conducted a comprehensive audit of millions of ads say the social media company's efforts have had uneven ...

The parent company of Facebook will no longer let advertisers target people based on how interested the social network thinks they are in "sensitive" topics including health, race and ethnicity, ...

It’s a sure tell that something must be pretty bad at Facebook, Inc. when the company is forced to turn to its competitor, Twitter, to communicate with its users. Over the past two years, Facebook ...

The tech giants talk a lot about the “metaverse” and cloud computing. What really powers them is selling us socks. By Shira Ovide This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection ...

A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an ad exclusively to ...

Ad buyers will no longer be able to use topics such as health, race or sexual orientation to target people with unwanted ads on Facebook or other Meta apps. By Mike Isaac and Tiffany Hsu SAN FRANCISCO ...

Facebook (FB) launched a television ad series recently that does not showcase any product for sale or new feature on its platforms. Instead, Facebook (FB) wants TV viewers to meet an employee named ...

The biggest US tech companies – Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – are often lumped together. But their ad platform businesses have distinct dynamics, and each was affected by the trials ...