Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

The heir to the Saudi throne wasn’t always fabulously wealthy. Now, amid his crackdown on corruption, The Wall Street Journal has pieced together ways the crown prince and his brothers have leveraged...

Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. In many instances Facebook’s response is inadequate or nothing at all.

New brokers are cashing in as the Biden administration quietly encourages private weapons sales to Ukraine. Oversight is scant in these shadows.

A thorough delineation of the rapacious, ambitious new economic plan for Saudi Arabia by the heir apparent to the throne, Mohammed bin Salman.

The Saudi crown prince ascended with a taste for opulence, a hunger for money and a drive for power.

Its global program, designed to boost growth outside the U.S., leads to unexpected data costs. The company, which knows about the problem, blames software glitches.

Carla DiBello has a close relationship with its chief and little formal finance training. She has been helping foreign companies gain access to top Saudi officials, and her role is frustrating some...

A rift has emerged inside Charlie Hebdo over how the newspaper should handle its transformation from a financially troubled niche journal to a global brand.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found thousands of unsafe products for sale on Amazon. Here’s how you can prevent those items from ending up on your doorstep.

The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that detailed hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with President Trump.

The web of shell companies and middlemen managed by services firm Bridgewaters makes it hard for authorities to track assets and enforce sanctions. The company has connections to now-blacklisted...

The man atop the world’s biggest tech fund paid for a campaign that included negative news stories, a concocted shareholder campaign and a sexual trap, people familiar with the matter say. A Misra...

Trump’s first international trip was supposed to cast him as an independent leader who rewrote the diplomacy rulebook. Instead he wound up looking like a Saudi lapdog.

A seabed miner is positioning itself as an ecological crusader with a planned $2.9 billion valuation, even as oceanographers warn of ruined habitats; “I’m doing it for the planet.”

Just like other tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site. A Wall...

Facebook has investigated how to engage young users in response to competition from Snapchat and TikTok. A 2019 internal presentation was titled: “Exploring playdates as a growth lever.”

The trader known as DeepF—ingValue on the WallStreetBets forum and “Roaring Kitty” on YouTube helped turn the investing world upside down. “I didn’t expect this.”

The kingdom wants to attract the world’s best and brightest to futuristic projects such as Neom. But a difficult workplace culture is driving many away.

Students in Mississippi’s Jackson Public Schools district, who are predominantly Black and low income, already lagged their peers academically. Shutdowns set them back even more.

Billions are pouring into a clubby, secretive arms market. With Pentagon cash and unusually close Ukrainian military ties, Marc Morales has few peers.

In the third episode of our investigative series based on an extensive array of internal Facebook documents, we look at a persistent problem on the platform: human trafficking. WSJ's Justin Scheck...

The SEC is investigating a company’s cryptocurrency sale, an executive with the firm said, and people familiar with the probe said it includes looking at whether a prominent bitcoin entrepreneur...

The Wall Street Journal's Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck chart MBS' evolution from an unfocused, overweight kid with a taste for McDonald's to an increasingly brutish man with an eye on the throne.

Christopher Hallett’s unorthodox legal theories gave Neely Petrie-Blanchard hope she could regain custody of her daughter, and his online community of believers in QAnon and dark forces gave her a...

Eddie Dean writes about Dr. Ralph Stanley, the legend of “old-time mountain music,” also known as bluegrass, who died last week.

A daughter left behind in a defection. A fake kidnapping gone wrong. A U.S.-based activist successfully made cracks in Kim Jong Un’s regime—until mishaps sent his group into hiding.

The “platform” concept let tech firms shrug off constraints to getting big fast. Now comes a reckoning over responsibility.

Retail energy companies compete with local utilities to give consumers more choice. But in nearly every state where they operate, retailers have charged more than regulated incumbents, a Wall Street...

Mohammed bin Salman chose a weekend when the world was preoccupied with the novel coronavirus to clamp down on political rivals while throwing down the gauntlet with Russia over oil prices.

‎Society & Culture · 2023

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Public Investment Fund is poised to become one of the world’s biggest investors. But the PIF, as it is known, is off to a rocky start: After struggling to calculate its own...

Just like other tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site. A Wall...

Gov. Cuomo celebrated his birthday as he has most of his nine years in office: by holding a fund-raiser for his campaign committee.The soiree came after he praised the recommendations of a commission...

In a slap at purists who spend hours tying feathers and fur to look like insects, some enthusiasts are using mop strands—and filling their coolers in half the time; ‘a duck’s bottom’