In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Snapchat nears 1 billion monthly users, but the Santa Monica company still loses money and stock has plummeted ...

Facebook spied on some Snapchat users’ traffic data from 2016 through 2019 using a tool installed on their phones, according to newly released court documents from an antitrust lawsuit against the Bay ...

Update 6-17-2014: While we’ve already caught a glimpse of Facebook’s Snapchat competitor, called Slingshot, when the social networking giant accidentally released (and then pulled) it on the iTunes ...

Documents reveal Facebook was spying on Snapchat, Amazon and YouTube between 2016 and 2018. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images Facebook acquired Onavo in 2013 and shut it down in 2019 after a ...

Facebook secretly looked at user data to help better understand how users behave on competitor sites, according to documents released by a federal court in California. The documents, unsealed on ...

In June, Snapchat announced that more than two-thirds of its video ads are viewed with the sound on. This announcement was considered a not-so-subtle jab at competitor Facebook’s track record on sound ...

Everybody with a social media account knows that outages happen. From Meta’s Facebook and Instagram hiccup last year to X.com’s brief problem earlier this year, it’s inevitable for an occasional ...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project ...