Critics on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict blame social media for violence and hate.

As the media explores deeper ties with Facebook, one publisher has remained especially wary of the social network.

COMMENT: A new phenomenon due to the rise in smartphones is where we turn to our devices to answer a need.

Two-thirds of Facebook's 1.6 billion users get their news on Facebook, why doesn't the social media platform call itself a news outlet?

Facebook hoped the raw immediacy of livestreaming might coax users to share more about their lives. But it poses dilemma for social media giant.

Facebook plans to roll out secret conversations protected by end-to-end encryption to more users later this summer.

It's the next big thing after drone- and laser-based Internet, says Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook has confirmed that it is working with the Māori Language Commission on "the appropriate use of Māori language" on its platform.

COMMENT: A selection of ways you can use your smartphone camera.

Facebook users are fed up with clickbait headlines and they're fighting back.

A new survey finds consumers are pretty cynical about why CEOs speak out on social issues.

Facebook has once again tweaked the formula it uses to decide what people will see in their news feed

Trawling Facebook can prompt the insecure mind to seek out potential relationship threats.

COMMENT: Who is going to give you all these answers and without payment of money? Google!

COMMENT: Tax - it's about doing the right thing, writes Spark managing director Simon Moutter.

Social media posts, blogs are telling streaming companies and producers what to weave together on-screen for the best chance of bottom-line success.

COMMENT: How wide is the gulf between what you know you should do; and what you actually are doing?

Facebook today launches a new tool in NZ which allows users who are worried about the mental wellbeing of a friend to report their concerns and offer help.

A high school student in the US was mortified after she was called into the principal's office and told she needed to wear a bra to school.

Mary Meeker's annual report is a telling look at how we spend our time online.

Warren Buffet's Giving Pledge has added another 17 signatories to the charitable scheme.

Now you can see women in more roles than just dancing in a red dress.

Facebook is gearing up to live chat astronauts on the International Space Station tomorrow afternoon.

You may think you're popular with more than 500 Facebook friends but don't kid yourself, says a study. You still have only about five friends in real life.

COMMENT: NZ's most insatiable fighter exploded into the public eye on the weekend, throwing his weight and his fists about - furious, indefatigable.

A new study suggests your Facebook friends have too much of an influence on what you pay for a house.

The company's role as a news organ is still evolving.

The US government has been behind the curve on mining social media for relevant details about trustworthiness.

COMMENT: Facebook is simply millions of lighted-up houses to peer into. But you can't go home to all of them, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Sheryl Sandberg's touching Facebook post says she never realised how the odds are stacked against single mums until her husband died.