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The new privacy guidelines are one-third their previous length. But experts say it doesn't change how much data the company will continue to gather from users.

Facebook says that by next year people on apps like Whatsapp and Messenger will be able to basically text payments. This news comes as regulators are asking if the tech giant is already too powerful.

COO Sandberg talks about the miscalculations that made it possible for the research firm Cambridge Analytica to collect data on as many as 87 million users without their permission.

"As unprecedented numbers of people channel their political energy through this medium, it's being used in unforeseen ways with social repercussions that were never anticipated," says Facebook.

Facebook announced Tuesday it plans to create its own digital currency, called Libra. It's a way for Facebook to play the role that governments play in issuing money.

The federal judge, once denied a Supreme Court confirmation hearing by Republicans, faced lawmakers Monday for his nomination to lead the Justice Department.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who previously considered such claims free speech, said his thinking has "evolved." Survivors had lobbied the social network to remove posts that deny the Holocaust.

The social networking site with 1.2 billion users released a cyberbullying prevention hub with suggestions on how to start conversations, both online and off, and take action on Facebook. It's the first step — but one digital advocacy group says it should have been taken earlier.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his condolences to the family of a man murdered in Cleveland on Sunday, whose attacker shared videos of the killing on the social network.

It's grabbed a lot of headlines, but the evidence on social media and teen mental health — including that Facebook and Instagram research — is far from a smoking gun.