There was lots of talk this week about Facebook's 2011 “consent decree” with the FTC. What's it mean? And why should you care? We break it down.

Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the FTC is a done deal, but what will it mean for users? Not much will change for consumers, experts say.

Facebook fears no FTC fine. In April, seeing the writing on the wall and perhaps privy to some of the conversations, Facebook set aside $3 billion to cover the costs of the settlement it knew was ...

The FTC is looking to see whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent order in which the Menlo Park company agreed to get users’ permission for certain changes to privacy settings.

The FTC’s proposed changes include barring Facebook from making money off data collected on users under age 18, including in its virtual reality business. It would also face expanded limitati… ...

As Facebook's executives know, however, TikTok has been under FTC constraint since 2019-- when it paid a $5.7 million fine and entered into a consent decree with the FTC to also stop collecting ...

The FTC also said Facebook, from late 2017 until 2019, "misrepresented that parents could control whom their children communicated with through its Messenger Kids product." ...

MeWe, you say? Never heard of it! Part of the FTC's complaint says that between 2012 and 2020, Facebook was hugely dominant in "personal social networking" (the kind of social network where you ...