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Two children using a mobile device.Photo: getty Facebook is building a version of Instagram that will be tailored to children under the age of 13, PEOPLE confirms. Messenger Kids debuted in late 2017 as a privacy-focused app for children, according toTech Crunch. To use the app, parents download it to their child’s smart device, set up a profile for them and then approve whom they can interact with. The new version of Instagram seems to be built around the same considerations....

If you attempted to log into your Facebook account this morning, only to discover you had to re-enter your password, you were far from alone. Millions of users were forced to log out of their accounts Friday morning, just days after Facebook discovered an attack on its computer network that exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million of its users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters over a conference call....

Photo: ARMANDO BABANI/AFP via Getty Facebook says it has assisted in an effort to evacuate 175 Afghan citizens from Afghanistan to Mexico this week. On Wednesday, the company confirmed its involvement in a statement to PEOPLE, writing that some of its own employees were among those who fled the country. “In the process of assisting Facebook employees and close partners leave Afghanistan, we joined aneffort to help a group of journalists and their families who were in grave danger,” a spokesperson for Facebook said....

Photo: Valentin Wolf/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock Facebook has shut down 5.4 billion fake accounts so far in 2019, the social networking giant announced in itsCommunity Standards Enforcement Reporton Wednesday. According to the data, approximately 5 percent of worldwide Facebook active users were identified as fake accounts throughout the year. The company said that they classify fake accounts into two types: abusive and under-misclassified. Roughly 3.3 billion fake accounts were removed in all of 2018....

Donald Trump.Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Facebook announced Friday that it will revisitDonald Trump’s ban from the platform in 2023 and only reinstate him once the risk his conduct poses to the public “has receded.” “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Facebook founderMark Zuckerbergsaid at the time....

Facebookis urging its employees not to wear or carry items in public that bear the company’s name, afterPresident Donald Trumpwasbanned from its platformsindefinitely following last week’sriots at the U.S. Capitol. “In light of recent events, and to err on the side of caution, global security is encouraging everyone to avoid wearing or carrying Facebook-branded items at this time,” read the memo, according to Business Insider. “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office toundermine the peaceful and lawful transitionof power to his elected successor,Joe Biden,” wrote Zuckerberg, 36....

Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Silicon Valley Facebook employees evacuated after a package sent to one of the company’s mail facilities tested positive for a poisonous chemical agent on Monday. Four buildings in Menlo Park, where the company is headquartered in Northern California, were emptied after a package was “deemed suspicious,” Facebook spokesperson Anthony Harrison told PEOPLE in a statement. “At 11:00 AM PDT this morning, a package delivered to one of our mailrooms was deemed suspicious,” Harrison said....

A former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower has finally come forward. The night before a worldwide crash causedFacebook and its family of apps to go offlineon Monday, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen revealed her identity on60 Minutesto discuss why she recently leaked the company’s internal documents to lawmakers and theWall Street Journal. For more on Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealing her identity and other top stories, listen below toour daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day....

Photo: Getty How much screen time is too much for a child, and is there a one-size-fits-all rule? Not so much, according to Facebook’s Global Head of Safety,Antigone Davis. In a chat with PEOPLE, Davis says that it’s important for parents “to really think about what their families’ needs are” in relation to time spent on a device. For example, she says she met a firefighter who used the platform’sMessenger Kids appto video chat with his children to read them a bedtime story....

Photo: Sheryl Sandberg/Instagram Sheryl Sandbergis mourning the loss of her late-husband’s mother, Paula Goldberg. On Sunday night, Sandberg, 52, shared to Instagram the news that Goldberg had died with a lengthy caption and carousel of photos honoring the legacy of her mother-in-law. One image included was a close-up shot of Sandberg dressed in Minnesota Vikings gear smiling next to Goldberg. In another, Sandberg is seen on her wedding day to late husband Dave Goldberg standing next to both her mother, Adele Sandberg and Goldberg....

Photo: Courtesy Sheryl Sandberg Facebook on Tuesday announced new security measures intended to protect profile pages after people die — and it’s a mission the company’s COOSheryl Sandbergsays has a personal meaning to her. Nearly four years ago, Sandberg’s husband, Survey Monkey CEO Dave Goldberg,died suddenlyat just 47 years old, while exercising in the hotel gym during a getaway with his wife and friends in Mexico. In the aftermath of thedevastating loss, Sandberg says she relied on her friends — and Facebook — to keep the memory of her husband alive....

Mark Zuckerberg.Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Facebook, Inc.announced on Thursday that it’schanging the name of the companyto Meta. “We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it’s the next chapter for our company too,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 37, wrote in hisfounder’s letter. “Today we’re seen as a social media company,” he continued. “But increasingly, it’s not all we do. In our DNA, we build technology to bring people together....

Facebook, Inc. is planning to unveil a new name in an effort to be seen as more than just a social media company, according to a new report.The Vergereported that CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to announce the new name next week during the annual Connect conference on Oct. 28. The switch is expected to reflect the company’s “focus on building the metaverse,” per the tech news outlet. A Facebook spokesperson tells PEOPLE, “We don’t comment on rumor or speculation....