Facebook announces it will chance company name to Meta to embrace of the futuristic idea that will transform the internet into a virtual environment

Launching the 'meterverse' following weeks of devasting press, Mark Zuckerbeg says new name represents a future beyond just the social media network

Social media giant's automated controls assessed with 90% certainty that president's post during backlash over George Floyd death broke company's rules on incitement

Critics suggest social media giant was slow to act because it worried internal proposals to deal with misleading info might impact profits

Net income in July-September period was $9.19 billion, social media giant says; whistleblower who leaked internal documents tells UK lawmakers company stokes online hate, extremism

Frances Haugen, who leaked a trove of documents from social media giant, says company rewards those who post the most divisive content

Amid efforts to expand outside US and Western Europe, social media giant has failed to address or anticipate the unintended consequences of signing up millions of new users

Internal memo reveals systemic failures in content moderation, including in Gaza, where moderators are quick to flag Palestinian content as terror

Internal documents say social media giant acknowledged that it was 'under-enforcing on confirmed abusive activity'

Internal company documents show the social media giant has been aware of the hate speech, misinformation, and inflammatory posts for years