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Taking to Facebook, Alex Shute Photography posted a collection of images taken at Achmelvich Beach near Lochinver.

Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta’s decision to encrypt direct messages could harm children

Current and former Facebook users are owed a share of an eye-watering $275 million settlement — here's how to claim your cut of the cash.

Meta has agreed to pay Facebook users $725m privacy settlement

The good news about news consumption during the 2020 election is that fewer Americans were exposed to "untrustworthy websites" — misinformation — compared with the 2016 election, according to a recently released study by Stanford researchers published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

The settlement stems from a lawsuit alleging Facebook developers sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, a former political consulting firm, to target people in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

If you're tired of the Twitter shenanigans, you're not alone. While there aren't many options, Mastodon is probably the closest alternative to a social media platform that rivals Twitter.

Microsoft drops Twitter from is advertising tools, as the company refuses to pay the social network $42,000+ a month for API access in its new revenue scheme.

Political parties and their supporters are using social media platforms to convey messages, attempting to woo voters at the polls next month, resulting in a fierce content war among rival camps.

Meta's Cambridge Analytica data privacy mess is a $725M windall for Facebook users and now you can collect.

Investors also focused on today's onslaught of earnings reports, including mixed results for streaming giant Netflix.