A Facebook employee in an Oct. 15, 2020, message said he had spoken with Chan and that the agent said he was “up to speed” on the FBI’s probe of Hunter’s laptop.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday he can't "be sure" whether Facebook is sending the bureau user information without official requests after a recent report alleged the tech company is ...

It was not immediately clear whether the FBI aims to expand on Dataminr’s capabilities with the new contract, or whether it is already doing some kind of monitoring of Facebook and Instagram ...

Zuckerberg reveals what FBI told Facebook ahead of Hunter Biden laptop story. Center for American Liberty founder Harmeet Dhillon says this demands an investigation on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' ...

FBI agents told an Oklahoma woman that they spend "every day, all day long" interrogating people about social media activity when they arrived at her home in response to her posts.

The FBI is running ads on Facebook in the Washington DC area seemingly designed to target and recruit Russian spies as well as those who know about their work, CNN has learned.

Between October 2024 and March 2025, the FBI reported a 30% increase in reported sextortion crimes and the number of actual ...

The FBI said that it “routinely notifies” private sector entities, including social media companies, of information related to potential threats after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook ...

The FBI is looking to monitor all public information posted on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. The organization is asking for an app to do all the scraping automatically.

Three days later, the FBI arrested Avery for encouraging rioting across a handful of Facebook posts, according to his lawyer, Marleen Suarez. FBI agents had been reading his and other protesters ...

In one of her first statements since the trial, Sherry Ballard, Crystal Rogers' mother, gave praise to the FBI.

Origins: The "FBI vs. Facebook" mailings are new lures for an existing virus (rather than a new form of virus), but since they've garnered so much attention, we've created this separate entry for ...