2018 will be remembered as the year that tech had to confront the power and responsibility of the platforms it created.

Regarding the roughly 90 civil-rights organizations that contributed to the audit, Facebook's Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg said she is "grateful for their candor and guidance."

Yes, Google's ill-fated social network -- which many probably thought was gone -- was just given an official expiration date of April 2019. That's actually sooner than the August kill date Google announced earlier this year.

Per a new report, Instagram is becoming the No. 1 social-media platform when it comes to engagement for brands.