A Lancashire businesswoman has called for more support from Facebook after hackers post live beheading and steal thousands of pounds.

Hackers post live beheading on woman's Facebook and steal thousands of pounds

Playing video games to earn a living for many young people would be the ultimate dream but for Charley Halford from Sevenoaks in Kent he's made it a reality.

Man who quit full time job to become a pro-gamer in unique marathon attempt

Northern Irish schoolgirls have had their images shared on a Facebook group without their consent. 

Facebook bars group sharing schoolgirl images and police warn of online dangers

Russia will stopped people accessing Facebook and Instagram in the country, making it a terrorist offence to do so.

Russia to ban Facebook and Instagram, claiming Meta is 'extremist organisation'

Sir Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent company Meta, said Russians have been “silenced from speaking out”.

Russia blocks access to Facebook for its 146 million citizens

With huge sums of money being spent building new virtual worlds, we look at how such technology is already being used and ask what is next for the metaverse.

The metaverse: A glorified computer game or the workplace of the future?

The former deputy prime minister will sit alongside company founder Mark Zuckerberg in level of seniority at Facebook's newly rebranded Meta.

Nick Clegg promoted to same level as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Meta

The wipeout for Meta Platforms erased more than 230 billion dollars in market value in one day - the biggest one-day loss in history for a US company.

Facebook owner Meta suffers 26% plunge in share price

FILE - A man walks past a mural in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif., June 11, 2014. A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem, formerly known as Libra, is dead and its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

The social media giant released its latest financial results.

Facebook daily users fall for first time as competition from TikTok grows

Facebook are "willing to trade the lives of the Rohingya people for better market penetration in a small country in southeast Asia", lawyers said.

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook over Myanmar hate speech

All sides in Ethiopia’s yearlong Tigray war have committed abuses marked by “extreme brutality” that could amount to war crimes, a UN chief warns.

Facebook deletes Ethiopia PM's post urging citizens to 'bury' rebels

More than one-third of Facebook's daily active users - around 640 million people - use the company's facial recognition technology.

Facebook will delete facial recognition data from over a billion people

Facebook has officially been renamed as a part of plans to launch a metaverse - so what's the new name, and what is a metaverse? 

Why has Facebook been renamed and what is the metaverse?

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen gives evidence to a Parliamentary committee.

Instagram is more dangerous for young people than other apps according to Facebook's own research, a whistleblower has told UK MPs.

Whistleblower: Bullying 'follows children home' from school thanks to Instagram

Founder Mark Zuckerberg is said to be keen to change Facebook's company's name in a bid to move beyond social media and the controversies that have engulfed it.

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