For months, Facebook hosted a revenge-porn page dedicated to humiliating one Texas woman with Photoshopped clips of her face pasted onto porn shots, a US woman from Texas is claiming. Facebook’s report abuse procedure got her nowhere; only a police subpoena got through. Is that Report Abuse button actually hooked up to anything, or is it buzzing in an empty room? 
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Facebook iPhone 6 scams – how NOT to get sucked in
We “do the math” to help you explain to your friends and family why they are NOT getting a free iPhone 6 for clicking Like!
How anyone can hack your Instagram account
Should you write instructions that tell everyone how to hack Instagram accounts, including advice like “wait for someone to use the Instagram iOS app”? Have your say in our poll…
13-year-old girl arrested for Facebook death threats against entire town
Despite specific threats to kill a 12-year-old cancer patient along with the entire population of a Texas town, Facebook initially stonewalled police’s efforts to find the identity of whoever was making the terrorist threats. It baffled police, as well it should. 
What would make you quit Facebook? Here’s what you said …
Last week we asked our readers to take a poll about Facebook’s controversial social experiment on thousands of unknowing users. Lots of you responded – more than 1,000 – and we received a lot of great comments on our post and Read more…
DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s
The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg. 
Facebook’s experiment on users – what would it take for you to finally quit? [POLL]
Facebook is taking heat once again for perceived invasion of privacy, after it disclosed a research experiment conducted on users without their explicit consent. What do you think? Have you finally had enough of Facebook’s privacy invasions to say “enough is enough”? Take our poll…
Did Facebook’s emotion experiment break the law? ICO probes
Did Facebook’s emotional manipulation study break data protection laws? The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office is to investigate the experiment, which caused outrage after it manipulated the feeds of close to 700,000 users to determine how they reacted to positive or negative news.
Ex-boyfriend avoids jail for posting offensive update on woman’s Facebook account
The case – one which involves prosecution over damage to a social media account – is reportedly unprecedented. The guilty party was facing a maximum of 10 years in prison and a €10,000 fine, with a judge who had no precedents to go on when it came time for sentencing. 
Facebook shrugs as ’emotional contagion’ research outrages its users
Some users saw a dash more positive items in their feeds; some received a more grim daily dose, as the researchers cut out happy tidings. The researchers’ conclusion: yes, emotional states are contagious, and no, seeing friends post happy news does not necessarily make people want to jump off ledges. The internet’s reaction: how dare you manipulate emotions without informed consent?