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Microsoft is shutting down its social network, LinkedIn, in China, saying having to comply with the Chinese state has become increasingly challenging. It comes after the career-networking site faced questions for…

A former Facebook employee has told US politicians that the company's sites and apps harm children's mental health and stoke division in society. Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old former product manager turned whistleblower,…

Facebook has apologised after it stopped working for users around the world for several hours on Monday. WhatsApp and Instagram - which are owned by the company - were also down. What was the problem? In a…

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the "disruption" caused after its social media services went down for almost six hours - impacting more than 3.5bn users worldwide. The billionaire said sorry after…

Rip-off websites which charge people for free Covid-19 passenger locator forms feature prominently in Google search results, the BBC has found. Airline Ryanair said passengers should be "extra vigilant" and only download forms from…

Instagram has made new under-16s' accounts private by default so only approved followers can see posts and "like" or comment. Tests showed only one in five opted for a public account when the private setting was the…

British security service MI5 is joining Instagram in a bid to increase transparency and rid itself of "martini-drinking stereotypes". The account, @mi5official, will host Q&As with serving intelligence officers and promote…

India’s cybersecurity agency Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued an advisory to Facebook users in the country to help them strengthen their account after the recent Facebook data leak. In a massive leak, data…

People can now enter their phone numbers into a website to see if they appeared in a recent Facebook data breach. Details of more than 530 million people were leaked in a database online, largely consisting of mobile…