A coalition of states will probe Facebook's "dominance of [social networking] and the potential anticompetitive conduct stemming from that dominance.”
Since announcing the project last month, the company has faced pushback from U.S. and international regulators and lawmakers.
The Federal Trade Commission’s settlement resolves its investigation into how the company lost control over user data.
Facebook's proposed Libra digital currency “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers," the treasury secretary says.
German officials say Facebook presented a "distorted picture" of the extent of illegal content, including hate speech, on its platform.
Ventures by companies such as Facebook into financial services "have the potential to generate new risks and costs associated with market power."
The project would bring a consumer-friendly version of digital currencies to smartphones around the world.
The Facebook-owned messaging app said the attack had signs of coming from a private company working on surveillance.
Facebook says the charge it took in the first quarter is a reasonable estimate of what it would cost to resolve an FTC privacy investigation.
Calls for regulating companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google out of existence are misguided, says Canada's former competition commissioner.
HUD filed civil charges alleging the company allowed employers and landlords to target ads based on race.
"Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like 'digital gangsters' in the online world," said a report from U.K. lawmakers.
