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Garth Brooks plans Facebook concert next week – and he’s taking requests

The 30-minute set is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET Monday and Brooks says he’ll be accepting song requests.

March 20

Facebook acknowledges a bug is blocking coronavirus news

Facebook says a bug in its anti-spam system is blocking the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus.

March 17

Unique Illinois privacy law leads to $550M Facebook deal

Adam Pezen, Carlo Licata and Nimesh Patel are among millions of people who have been tagged in Facebook photos at some point in the past decade, sometimes at the suggestion of an automated tagging feature powered by facial recognition technology.

February 9

Facebook's official Twitter, Instagram accounts hacked

Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts appeared to be hacked Friday afternoon.

February 7

Facebook to pay $550 million to Illinois users to settle lawsuit

Facebook will pay $550 million in the form of a cash fund for Illinois users who sued the social media company for collecting facial-recognition data, Edelson PC said on Wednesday.

January 30

Data on 267 million Facebook users exposed: Researcher

A Ukrainian security researcher reported finding a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users - nearly all U.S.-based - on the open internet.

December 21, 2019

Maybe it's a sign...Facebook and Instagram experience outages this Thanksgiving

So far, the problems have only been going on for a few hours.

November 28, 2019

Hospital dresses up ‘newest neighbors’ in tiny red Mister Rogers cardigans for World Kindness Day

UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh welcomed its newest and most adorable neighbors on World Kindness Day, dressing them in tiny Mister Rogers-style cardigans.

November 13, 2019