Facebook announces paid family sick leave and new bereavement benefits for employees

 On her personal Facebook account Tuesday, COO Sheryl Sandberg announced an update to the company’s employee benefits,…

How to make Facebook politics less painful

 The social norms of in-person communication clearly don’t exist online, and Facebook is limited by constraints…

Legal challenge to Facebook EU-US data transfer mechanism kicks off in Ireland

 Another legal challenge to a data transfer authorization mechanism relied upon by Facebook and thousands of…

Hootsuite acquires AdEspresso as it moves into paid content, social ads

 Hootsuite, the startup and platform that lets marketers manage a company’s interactions across a range of social…

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative donates $3.6M to fight SF Bay housing crisis

 The rise of tech startups around San Francisco has contributed to a rise in rents that’s…

Chinese photo-sharing app Kuaishou planning U.S. IPO later this year

 We’re hearing from sources that Kuaishou — a hot photo-sharing application in China — is planning…

Super Bowl posts on social media are up from last year, but didn’t top 2015’s record numbers

 Super Bowl LI may have made history as the first Big Game to go into overtime,…

Google and Facebook partner for anti-fake news drive during French election

 The first round of the French presidential election is due to be held in April. So…