All the headlines from our Facebook Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 9 2016 // An Indianapolis suburb has settled a lawsuit accusing it of violating free speech rights when it removed two women’s critical comments on its Facebook page.Court documents show the plaintiffs will receive nearly...
Jun 22 2016 // A Pittsburgh newscaster fired after her comments in a Facebook post about a shooting were deemed racially insensitive sued her former employer on Monday, saying the television station let her go because she is white.Wendy...
Jun 21 2016 // The father of a young woman killed in the Paris massacre last November is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, claiming that the companies provided “material support” to extremists in violation of the...
May 6 2016 // Facebook Inc. users who say the social network’s facial scanning flouts their privacy rights won the first round of a court fight.A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected Facebook’s request to...
May 2 2016 // Facebook Inc. revealed that it spent $4.26 million on security for Mark Zuckerberg last year, its first disclosure of such costs, and the highest among companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index that have filed...
Jan 25 2016 // There is no shortage of predictions and New Year’s resolutions about the challenges facing independent agents this year. There’s one trend, however, that needs no prediction because it’s already a reality...
Dec 30 2015 // A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook Inc. of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company’s May 2012 initial public offering.U.S. District...
Dec 21 2015 // Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who...
Oct 28 2015 // A judge has declined to prevent private Facebook messages from being considered during a trial of two people charged in an Evansville, Ind., marina fire. The Evansville Courier & Press reports the judge denied the...
Oct 26 2015 // Facebook Inc. won dismissal of a $15 billion lawsuit accusing the company of secretly tracking the Internet activity of its users after they log off.U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose, California, on Friday...
Aug 4 2015 // Recently I ordered a pizza from a national chain (no, not the one you’re thinking) and it was quite late arriving at my home. So late, in fact, that I called the store 45 minutes after I placed my order to find out...
Jul 30 2015 // When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in other photographs.Facebook Inc. says this enhances the user experience. But privacy advocates...
Jul 9 2015 // Social media operators such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube would have to notify federal authorities of online “terrorist activity,” according to the text of a bill approved by the U.S. Senate Intelligence...
May 27 2015 // For ambulance chasers, persistence and a phone book just don’t cut it anymore. Law firms, which once relied on television commercials, billboards, and cold calling numbers in the white pages to find plaintiffs for...
May 15 2015 // The city of Somerset, Ky., has settled with a paramedic who filed suit claiming she was fired from her job for criticizing the mayor in a Facebook post.Crystal Norton was reinstated to her job and received nearly $26,000...
Apr 6 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there.Chia Hong filed the lawsuit in mid-March in a San Francisco Bay...
Mar 23 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there.Chia Hong filed the lawsuit this week in a San Francisco Bay Area...
Jan 13 2015 // A federal appeals court has upheld the firing of a Greenville, Miss., police officer who alleged she was dismissed over comments posted on a social networking site.Former Sgt. Susan Graziosi was fired in 2012 after posting...
Nov 18 2014 // Facebook Inc. is testing a version of its social network that will let people communicate and collaborate at work, a person familiar with the matter said, taking on tools from Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc.The...
Oct 24 2014 // Russell Staley stared out his broken windshield as darkness engulfed him and firefighters bearing chain saws cut through fallen trees to reach the passenger door of his tractor trailer.Staley had been heading north on...