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Facebook expects FTC fine of up to $5bn in privacy investigation — The Guardian

Facebook is expecting to pay as much as $5bn to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it revealed in first quarter financial reports, writes...

Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show — NBC News

According to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leveraged...

Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don’t take him seriously — The Guardian

The Facebook founder’s proposals for how to regulate the social media platform are self-serving and cynical, writes Roger McNamee in an opinion piece. Here is...

Facebook stored millions of passwords in plaintext, change yours now — Wired

Following a report by Krebs on Security, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management systems that caused hundreds of millions of user passwords...

Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage — TechCrunch

Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging service, writes Natasha Lomas. Here...