MORE ON: Facebook

Not all of Facebook’s 900 million global users are pleased with the mega-site’s slow lurch toward what it calls Timeline, a new profile format that displays photos, updates, wall messages and more based on when the material was posted over the lifetime of the user. Internet... + read more

Last year, California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined attorneys general across the country in declaring war against Backpage.com, a free classified website run by Village Voice Media. The officials threatened legal action if the site didn’t stop running ads for adult services, some of... + read more

Palo Alto-based social networking giant Facebook is expanding its political footprint, confirming that it has filed the necessary paperwork to open a political action committee in advance of the 2012 elections. The move is the latest in a series of maneuvers boosting the company’s... + read more

Protecting children online has been a growing concern since, well, the Internet went mainstream. Predators can easily hide their identities, pretending to be younger and using fake profile pictures. With more than 500 million users worldwide, Facebook is the social network of choice to share photos... + read more

Donny Tobolski will never look at the share button on Facebook the same. In December, the 15-year-old sophomore at Mesa Verde High decided to post on his Facebook page that his honors biology teacher was a "fat a** who should stop eating fast food, and is a douche bag." These... + read more

Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, is in the running to be California's next attorney general, and a Justice Department presentation obtained by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation indicates that Facebook is, "often cooperative with emergency requests" from... + read more