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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again

A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams

The Illinois Attorney General's office has charged a Plainfield woman with eight felony counts after she allegedly purchased cars off Facebook Marketplace with fraudulent IDs and checks.

Users of Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage.

On Wednesday, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X and other social media companies went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify as lawmakers and parents grow increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.

Gov. JB Pritzker joined other local dignitaries in DeKalb Wednesday to celebrate Meta's DeKalb Data Center coming fully online. The campus, which broke ground in 2020 along Gurler Road, will house 2.3 million square feet over five buildings and promises to bring with it a $1 billion investment and more than 200 jobs, the social media parent company announced.

With vocal support from the governor and $25 million from the state, biomedical researchers are beginning to work on studying the fundamentals of human disease at a new facility in Chicago.

Health care industry argues it is exempt from biometric privacy liability while the attorney for two nurses suing their employers said that argument would effect "as much as 10% of the Illinois workforce."

A convicted Joliet sex offender was arrested after he was accused of contacting a 15-year-old girl on Facebook Messenger, police said.

Illinois lawmakers aim to make their state what they say will be the first in the country to create protections for child social media influencers

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products

State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, will hold traveling office hours from 1 to 3 p.m. July 21 at Journey Well Therapy and Coaching, 408 11th Ave.

Breaking news: Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced Wednesday it will expand its DeKalb Data Center on the city’s south side by three buildings, bringing with it a community investment that now totals more than $1 billion.

Meta executives and City of DeKalb officials were on hand at the Meta DeKalb Data Center Wednesday for a press conference announcing the expansion of the facility.

As we enter 2022, here are some of the headlines Daily Chronicle reporters will be watching in the new year:

A man was rescued after about 18 minutes trapped inside a shipping container at the construction site of the Facebook DeKalb Data Center this week, said DeKalb Fire Chief Jeff McMaster.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future

Facebook’s own internal, automated controls, meant to catch posts that violate rules, predicted with almost 90% certainty that Trump's message broke the tech company's rules against inciting violence. Yet, the tech giant didn’t take any action on Trump's message.

Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the world’s response to COVID-19, researchers at Facebook found they could reduce vaccine misinformation by tweaking how vaccine posts show up on users’ newsfeeds

Facebook the company is losing control of Facebook the product — and of the carefully crafted image it has spent over a decade selling despite problems like misinformation, human trafficking, and pervasive extremist groups on its platform

Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store two years ago over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast

Across the Middle East, journalists, activists and others have long accused Facebook of censoring their speech

The Facebook Papers project represents a unique collaboration among 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press

New internal documents provided by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen provide a rare glimpse into how the company, after years under the microscope for the policing of its platform, appears to have simply stumbled into the Jan. 6 riot

A former Facebook data scientist told Congress that the social network’s products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S. while its executives refuse to change because they elevate profits over safety

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were apparently down worldwide on Monday

DeKalb County attracted $975 million of capital investment during 2020.

Facebook is coming to DeKalb, and will build its 16th data center in the world on 505 acres in DeKalb’s south side, along Route 23 and Gurler Road across from the ChicagoWest Business Center.