A protest planned for Cork this weekend and another on St Patrick’s Day in Dublin are being examined by gardaí

A US federal judge has approved a 650 million dollar (£466 million) settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.

Facebook announced on Friday preliminary agreements with three Australian publishers, a day after the country’s parliament passed a law that would make the digital giants pay for news.

After discussions with Facebook, Australia agreed to amend the bill – which passed in parliament on Thursday – and the social network agreed to lift the ban on sharing news

Google has already struck deals with major Australian news businesses in recent weeks including News Corp and Seven West Media

News publishers across Europe have partnered with Microsoft to demand revenue share

Australia’s government announced on Tuesday that Facebook has agreed to lift its ban on Australians sharing news after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism.

Microsoft has leaned on the side of the press in an escalating debate over whether tech giants should be forced to pay news organisations for content.

US senator Ted Cruz swanned off to sunny Cancún in Mexico leaving his poor little dog in his freezing home, looking sadly out the window at photographers, writes Terry Prone

Tickets for the event, which would be held in breach of current level 5 Covid-19 restrictions, were being advertised online for €20 euro each.

Australia’s prime minister on Friday urged Facebook to lift its blockade of Australian users and return to the negotiating table with news publishing businesses.

For two decades, global news outlets have complained that internet companies are getting rich at their expense, selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue.

Australian plans to make digital giants pay for journalism have raised questions among proponents and critics, including whether it effectively makes Google and Facebook “pay for clicks”.

Facebook has blocked Australians from sharing news in a stunning act of retaliation against government moves to make the social media giant pay for Australian journalism.

Facebook is working to catch child sexual exploitation content it may have missed as a result of a technical issue after changes the firm made late last year.

The tech firm said it is the largest worldwide campaign promoting authoritative Covid-19 vaccine information.

Colm Ryan of Cork Skeptics said their page and all the administrator’s personal Facebook accounts were shut down twice in two months

The main fear among employees is that they are forced to attend the office, where there has been positive cases of Covid-19, and return to vulnerable family members.

Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, but the company has forecast challenges in 2021 that include a coming privacy update by Apple that could limit the social network’s ad targeting capabilities.

Facebook News, the social network’s new section dedicated to personalised news content, has launched in the UK.

Parler went down early today after Amazon Web Services shut off access to its servers, leaving it without a home

One fan says: 'I have been friends with this other Daniel for quite a while now. I took it as genuine and I thought we had developed quite a bond. Then I was asked to pose in nothing but a tea cosy'

The social media giant announced the move on Friday, saying it was taking the action due to a "risk of further incitement of violence."

The social network has not confirmed the cause of the issue but said it hopes to resolve it quickly

Federal regulators have asked for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the US government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller ...

Facebook has said it will start removing false claims about new coronavirus vaccines after it was revealed jabs could be rolled out next week in the UK.

It is not yet known if any significant amount of money was given to the false fundraiser

In October, the company announced it would ban ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.

The family of a Kerry builder who died in a tragic accident in Tralee last weekend are urging people not to contribute to a fake Facebook campaign set up in his name

Code will be enforced by a dedicated unit within the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

Facebook removed more than 12 million pieces of misinformation content related to Covid-19 between March and October this year, the social network’s latest figures reveal.

A row between teenage girls over accusations of comments on Facebook led to a stabbing of a teenage boy, a court has heard. During the 2015 attack the 15-year-old victim was repeatedly stabbed, punched and kicked by a number of teenagers.

Facebook on Thursday banned a large group called Stop the Steal that supporters of Donald Trump were using to organise protests against the presidential vote count.

Twitter Inc has suspended several recently created right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested U. S. election for violating its policies.

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems said: "The Irish taxpayer now has to pick up parts of the bill."

Facebook Gaming will not be available in-app for Apple iOS users, which the social network said was linked to Apple’s policy on cloud gaming

Columnist Clodagh Finn says think before you click and buy - Irish businesses trying to make it through this pandemic need your custom 

Mr Schrems claims the Data Protection Commissioner’s inquiry has had the effect of suspending its investigation into his complaints

Facebook will stop running political adverts in the US after polls close in the presidential election for an undetermined period of time.

Over a quarter of a million people in Ireland have joined hobby groups on Facebook since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, figures show.

A team of academics and civil rights activists have come together to scrutinise Facebook amid concerns about the upcoming US election and its handling of hate speech.

The 'Coco's law' petition aims to address the issues of online abuse, cyberbullying and revenge porn. 

Facebook has launched a new information centre aimed at providing users with accurate content about climate science in its latest response to online misinformation.

Facebook has significant concerns about its ability to deliver its services to 400 million European users after the Data Protection Commissioner's decision on the transfer of data to the social media giant's US parent, the High Court has heard.

In July, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the data transfer deal between the EU and the US - Privacy Shield - was invalid

Facebook has blocked live broadcasts from a chronically-ill man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death and who wanted to show what he expects will be a painful end to his life after he announced that he was ...

With just two months left until the US presidential election, Facebook has said it is taking more steps to encourage voting, minimise misinformation and reduce the likelihood of post-election “civil unrest”.

Facebook India executives have been grilled by members of a parliamentary committee in India on information technology over the company’s alleged political bias and role in spreading hate speech in the country.

Facebook said it has removed a small network of fake accounts and pages originating in Russia which targeted political debate in the UK and other countries.

Facebook has threatened to block Australian publishers and individuals from sharing news stories on its platform.