The world’s largest social network has more than 2 billion daily users, and is expanding rapidly around the world. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook undergirds much of the world’s communication online, both through its flagship app and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Despite huge financial success, Facebook is also confronted with questions about data privacy, hate speech on the platform, and concerns that frequent social media use can lead to unhappiness. The Verge publishes a nightly newsletter about Facebook and democracy, subscribe here.
The company is attempting to minimize its own research
A massive new document release shows chaos and confusion inside the world’s most powerful social network
Leaked documents reveal a huge, opaque system
The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base
The Facebook outage shut down an entire economy of informal work
