Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon…
Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real…
Back in 2015, Facebook had a pickle of a problem. It was time to update the Android version of the Facebook app, and…
In May 2008, Facebook announced what initially seemed like a fun, whimsical addition to its platform: People You May…
Last year, we launched an investigation into how Facebook’s People You May Know tool makes its creepily accurate…
Facebook has long said that it doesn’t use location data to make friend suggestions, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t…
Facebook is constantly watching you. Now, you can watch Facebook back. Gizmodo Media Group’s Special Projects Desk…
This morning, Facebook announced that it’s going to start scanning all the photos uploaded to the social network…
Facebook is a vast and bewildering operation, working with visible and invisible data streams via opaque algorithms…
Leila has two identities, but Facebook is only supposed to know about one of them.
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name…
“People You May Know.” “Suggested Friends.” “Suggestions for you.” No matter what it’s called, most of the social…