Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world in a mere 6,000 words earlier this year that he was going to take understanding his country, and the factions within it, seriously. Now, we have the ...

This may be more than speculation. Little Altena exemplifies a phenomenon long suspected by researchers who study Facebook: that the platform makes communities more prone to racial violence. And, now, ...

If you missed it last week, Facebook announced big news for social entrepreneurs and community leaders at the Facebook Communities Summit in London on February 9 th. The global tech giant revealed ...

It will come as a surprise to many, particularly given its prominence in the never-ending Facebook news cycle, what a recent invention “privacy” is. The right to live as a stranger among strangers, ...

Facebook will award up to $1 million to five community leaders and $50,000 to 100 more to fund their ideas for how to strengthen people’s online and offline connections. Facebook will also hire double ...

Ashlee spent time as a newspaper reporter, AmeriCorps VISTA and an employee at a healthcare company before she landed at CNET. She loves to eat, write and watch "Golden Girls" (preferably all three at ...

Facebook users are now engaging with more content from groups as part of the social network's shift toward meaningful communities. Facebook says there are more than 400 million people in groups that ...

Gather a mob and Facebook will now let you make political demands. Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature.

Meta launches new features for Facebook Groups to improve communication between members, strengthen communities, and give admins more ways to customize the look and feel. In addition, the company ...