That Darth Vader selfie is just the beginning of a partnership between Facebook and Disney "to promote Instagram without the disliked sponsored ads." Trust no one.

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg and his friends made a baby, and sent it on a cross-country bus trip to DC? FWD.us was supposed to be a new force in Washington, using new tech smarts to solve old policy impasses. Of course, that was bullshit, but here's a semi-exploitative hackathon, just for fun.

It looks like gossip is traveling at Hyperloop speed over Snapchat's hubris in turning down $3 billion in cash from Facebook. Om Malik just tweeted the latest: After Facebook, "Google offered $4B but @evanspiegel said no! Nice way to drive up valuation." Valleywag heard the same.

A Wall Street Journal report says Snapchat's insane $4 billion valuation is already going to its head: the disappearing pic startup rejected a $3 billion buyout offer from Zuckerberg. Three billion in cash. Zero sense.

Not long after Dave Morin laid off 20 percent of his employees in October, Path began hemorrhaging valuable staffers.

Twitter's IPO motto may be "less Facebook, more LinkedIn." But it's repeating a crucial mistake that, in Facebook's case, led to class action lawsuits for selective disclosure. Only this time, it's Goldman Sachs instead of Morgan Stanley.

A deft move from Facebook after its last privacy furor: the company just told the Wall Street Journal that it's testing a method to track everywhere your mouse moves on the site. Everyone is going to love this!

FWD.us, the Facebook-backed lobbying group, is no stranger to unlikely political alliances—in fact, it's reached so far into Washington's conservative corners, some prominent members jumped ship. Teaming up with religious bigots probably won't help.

If the monotony of college roommates getting engaged is enough to push you away from Facebook, the social network has a new stance on horrific violence that might draw you back in: beheadings are allowed.

The next stop on Sheryl Sandberg's Sheryl Sandberg Publicity Tour: our shuttered nation's capital, where the shutdown means government officials are happy to meet you, but unable to explain to anyone why.

Cool, more things to be terrified of: the Washington Post has more Ed Snowden slides detailing our federal government's data mining operations, and they are bad. Hundreds of millions of address books across Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and other various inboxes are subject to secret NSA collection.

After years of international anti-fashion icon status and getting married in his own back yard, the NASDAQ Prince might be scaling up: he just bought four homes directly next to his.

Very soon, any Facebook user you haven't blocked will be able to search for your name and find your Facebook profile. It's Google for people and you're just a result. Only no one would know that this is a big change by the way Facebook describes it in its blog post. Ho-hum, just "finishing the removal of an old search setting," says chief privacy officer Michael Richter.

If Facebook staffers opt to move in to work, they'll be getting a very sweet deal out of it: the Anton Menlo project includes all the comforts of suburbia and college combined. What 20-something engineer wouldn't want to live in a walled compound?

If you work at Facebook, your employer will already wash your underwear, cut your hair, and feed you—now it's getting into the landlord game. The Wall Street Journal says Zuckerberg will usher in the 21st century version of company towns, a place where you can never truly leave the social network.

Brittany Darwell has covered, almost encyclopedically, Facebook.com. She knows every detail, every line, every pixel, every small version change. She knows how the ads work, she knows how Likes work, and she wants only to list it for us on her website, Inside Facebook. But now she's joining the mothership.

A familiar sheen of sweat coated Mark Zuckerberg's forehead yesterday when James Bennet, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, asked the CEO of Facebook to place himself on the political spectrum. "Liberal conservative, Libertarian, Democrat, Republican, or something else?" asked Bennet.

The newest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series takes players into the offices of "Lifeinvader," a nefarious data-guzzling company that's clearly intended to mock Facebook. The best part is the press conference where alternate universe Zuck hypes the new Lifeinvader phone.

Earlier this week, a picture of Rehtaeh Parsons showed up in a "sponsored ad" on Facebook for an online dating site called Ionechat.com. Parsons was a 17-year-old Canadian girl, who committed suicide after she was cyber-bullied on Facebook and via texts following an alleged gang-rape at a friend's house. She was taken off life support in April.

Facebook's best-selling author-in-residence and part-time COO Sheryl Sandberg is on another publicity tour. Don't take our word for it: she uploaded a snap that contains 14 separate images of her face as proof. Remind us again, who's doing her job at Facebook when she isn't?