Facebook and Meta

Facebook Cares About Privacy—But Only If You’re an Advertiser

The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.

• Ethan Zuckerman
• August 6, 2021

Facebook Won’t Talk About the Insurrection

And Trump is allowed back on the platform in 2023.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• June 4, 2021

Somebody Has to Do It

Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.

• Evelyn Douek
• May 6, 2021

The Problem Is Facebook

Facebook’s “Supreme Court” might have upheld Donald Trump’s suspension, but that doesn’t make it a real court.

• Helen Lewis
• May 5, 2021

What Facebook Did for Chauvin’s Trial Should Happen All the Time

If the social-media giant can discourage hate speech and incitements to violence on a special occasion, it can do so all the time.

• Evelyn Douek
• April 21, 2021

The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave

Today’s antitrust regulators should rein in the tech giants.

• Rebecca Haw Allensworth and John Newman
• January 30, 2021

The Year That Changed the Internet

In 2020, the need to contain misinformation about COVID-19 pushed Facebook and Twitter into a role they never wanted—arbiters of the truth.

• Evelyn Douek
• December 28, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: 3 Reasons Facebook Is Dangerous

The company is operating at megascale, one writer argues.

• Caroline Mimbs Nyce
• December 15, 2020

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• December 15, 2020

Even Facebook Is Pining for the Internet It Destroyed

The tech giant’s new oddball social-media app is a testament to its power.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• July 30, 2020

How Facebook Works for Trump

Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.

• Ian Bogost and Alexis C. Madrigal
• April 17, 2020

Facebook’s New Privacy Tool Is a Data Landfill

Assume that every website you visit tattles on you to the social-media behemoth.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• January 28, 2020

Facebook’s Id Is Showing

An executive’s leaked memo suggests that the company wants to return to the pre-Trump world.

• Alexis C. Madrigal
• January 8, 2020

The Sneaky Genius of Facebook's New Preventive Health Tool

The feature looks likely to fill gaps in care—and to further draw users into Facebook’s ecosystem.

• Sidney Fussell
• January 8, 2020

A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders for Facebook

No one, including the social-media giant itself, trusts the company to decide which ads are false. But somebody has to render judgment.

• Jonathan Zittrain
• November 14, 2019

Don’t Trust Facebook

The Libra project could help the global poor. But at what cost?

• Annie Lowrey
• October 24, 2019

Facebook Restricts Speech by Popular Demand

The Constitution protects free speech, but internet companies are succumbing to public pressure to restrict it.

• Daphne Keller
• September 22, 2019

On Google and Facebook: 'The Finest Intelligence Operation on Earth'

• James Fallows
• April 10, 2018