censorship Facebook bans famous war photo because the screaming, napalmed child's genitals are offensive Rob Beschizza

crime Escaped convict requests police post a different "wanted photo" of her on social media David Pescovitz

privacy WhatsApp wooed users with privacy promise, but will soon share data with Facebook Xeni Jardin

web theory 48 hours later, Adblock Plus beats Facebook's adblocker-blocker Cory Doctorow

facebook Facebook declares war on adblockers, claims it can prevent them detecting ads Rob Beschizza

Funny How to pay no taxes at all! (if you're Apple, Google or Facebook) Cory Doctorow

security Facebook: We did ‘a test’ last year using some people's location data to suggest friends Xeni Jardin

picks Privacy invasion? Facebook is using your phone's location data to suggest friends Xeni Jardin

law US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your "online presence" at the border Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Oculus quietly drops DRM from its VR systems Cory Doctorow

art The strange genre of Mark Zuckerberg fan art David Pescovitz

picks Omar Mateen posted to Facebook during Orlando mass shooting Xeni Jardin

Business Salt Lake City apartment complex threatens tenants with eviction if they don't "Friend" the building Cory Doctorow

Business Oculus breaks promise, uses DRM to kill app that let you switch VR systems Cory Doctorow

News Former Facebook staff say they routinely manipulated trending news topics Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Hilary Clinton campaign ad: mashup of Republicans bashing Trump Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Facebook morphs into a clickhole, at the expense of personal sharing Cory Doctorow

picks Egypt blocked Facebook's Internet service over surveillance demands Xeni Jardin

facebook Instagram now allows videos up to a full minute long, up from 30 seconds Xeni Jardin

privacy Surveillance has reversed the net's capacity for social change Cory Doctorow