The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.

The lawsuit by three Facebook users claimed that Meta misrepresented its data protection policies to suppress competition.

Ads connected to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and Israel’s war in Gaza brought Facebook millions.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Silicon Valley's Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Acton and Dustin Moskovitz see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.

Residents can question elected officials’ tech decisions and crafting citizen oversight boards to enforce accountability.

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages, but a ProPublica investigation reveals that the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.

As the valley’s tech companies have driven the U.S. economy since the Great Recession, the region remains one of the most unequal.

Facebook’s Oversight Board said the ongoing risk of violence “justified” the suspension.

An expert on Section 230 talks with the ProPublica editor-in-chief about how we got here and how we should regulate our way out.

It’s been a millennium and a decade since two identical numbers divisible by 10 paired together in such a beautiful fashion.

Capt. James Jensen, attorneys Harpaul Nahal and Christopher Schumb and gun dealer Michael Nichols go to trial on Nov. 2.

Language is important in the pot world in surprising ways, and a new debate over what to call the business is brewing.

The alleged mastermind of an bribery plot managed to duck charges for now. As did many of his apparently perjurious colleagues.

Sources confirmed that DA investigators descended upon the Younger Avenue office on Thursday and took Sung’s computer and other items.

Just months after Martin Nielsen made an unusual political donation to the sheriff, she apparently granted him and a few colleagues CCW permits.