Facebook has quietly launched a new app called Whale that allows users to quickly make memes and share them on social media, reports The Information (via The Verge). Right now Facebook wants to ...

Facebook's Rosetta technology analyzes billions of images that contain text, but memes are more than the sum of their parts.

Richard Dawkins likened memes to genes, but a new study by Facebook shows just how accurate that analogy is. Memes adapt to their surroundings in order to survive, just like organisms. Post a ...

Most meme mutations are neutral. It's almost inevitable that when you're playing a game of telephone with your Facebook posts, mutations will occur—and these changes typically happen at the ...

College student meme page Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens became more popular than campus specific meme pages. Credit: Screenshot: heeba cherugi / Facebook and zeke sanchez / facebook In the past ...

The hyper-specific private meme groups of Facebook are social media's best inside joke.

What memes, teens, and the invasion of Martin Shkreli say about the modern college student.

For its part, Facebook denies having any hand in the #10YearChallenge. "This is a user-generated meme that went viral on its own," a Facebook spokesperson responded.

Did George Strait say Garth Brooks had been "begging country stars to help him get back into the world he tossed in the trash for wokeness"? No, that's not true: That quote originated on a satirical ...

Facebook might have more luck if it built meme creation tools and a dedicated viewing hub in Explore or a second Stories tray within Instagram. As is, it mostly ignores meme culture while ...

A popular meme on Facebook gives the false impression that people who cross into the United States illegally are automatically given a wide range of benefits, including the right to vote. The meme ...

The meme may not have been a nefarious attempt to train Facebook's facial recognition software, but Facebook's technology is anything but harmless fun.