After years of providing free services without any bells attached, WhatsApp is now going to start showing ads on the popular chat app. To be clear, users will only see ads on the Status screen — the ...

Facebook scam ads now leverage AI and deepfakes to create convincing celebrity endorsements, targeting specific demographics ...

Conservative Congressional Candidate Accidentally Shares Screenshot on Facebook Showing Porn Sites Mike Webb may have forgotten to close tabs before sharing a screenshot.

The fact that Facebook killed Signal’s ads because they revealed exactly how much information Facebook knows about you definitely caught my attention.

The makers of Adblock Plus want you to submit screenshots of the ads in your Facebook feed so a new artificial intelligence system called Sentinel can learn to recognize them. A new project from ...

Users in the test group are unimpressed by the video ads, which play automatically. Customers say they will be eager to toss their Roku devices if the ads become permanent.

Facebook will temporarily stop showing ads that “promote weapon accessories and protective equipment in the U.S. at least through Jan. 22,” two days after Inauguration Day, according to a ...

Facebook has figured out a way to display ads even when someone is running an ad blocker, and it intends to start using it. In a blog post today, Facebook essentially says that its ads aren’t ...

The social network’s 'Why am I seeing this ad?' interface will outline how your activity on and off Facebook helps put a promotion in your feed.

Facebook’s ad system suggests possible categories of users to target, including ones its algorithms have identified. Screenshot of Facebook.com, CC BY-ND In addition, we observed that 20% of ...

Signal says it tried to run ads on Instagram that show what data Facebook collects about you before being rejected, it said in a blog post.

It now seems all but certain that Facebook will introduce its own payment service and bring the fight to companies like Paypal and Venmo. A TechCrunch tipster has released screenshots and video of ...