Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, the FTC said.

Overall, the FTC’s data shows social media earned scammers more money in 2021 than any other method of reaching people. There’s a lot for scammers to like about social media, the agency stated.

Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers most at risk, the Federal Trade Commission found in a report published ...

Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...

A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting scammed on social media, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which revealed that consumers lost $770 million to social ...

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The FTC just published results of a sweeping study of social media sites that has been going on for four years. The organization said that many social media sites and streaming services engage in ...

FTC kicks off sweeping privacy probe of nine major social media firms Consumer privacy has fallen into the FTC's purview, so it's digging deep.

Don’t send money to someone you’ve never met in person. If that person asks for money, no matter how friendly the online ...

An FTC report has accused social media companies of vast user surveillance, inadequate data gathering practices, and profiteering.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday issued orders to eight social media and video streaming firms including Meta Platforms Inc , Twitter, TikTok and YouTube seeking information on ...

Around 95,000 cases of fraud originated from either a social media ad, post, or message, accounting for more than a quarter of all reported frauds last year, according to reports made to the FTC.