Business & Tech Kamala Harris Wants To Make Twitter and Facebook Accountable For Hate Speech Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said over the weekend that she wants to hold social media companies responsible for allowing radicalization and hate speech on their platforms.
Business & Tech Facebook In Talks With Dozens Of Financial Firms About Launching Its Own Cryptocurrency As has been rumored on the tech blogs for months, Facebook is reportedly working to create its own cryptocurrency, and now we know the name of the covert project: Project Libra.
Business & Tech Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion By The FTC For Its Mishandling Of Data The fine, expected to be between $3 billion and $5 billion, is potentially more firm back-hand thwack that it is a wrist-slap, as such fines have mostly been in the past.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Shut Off In Sri Lanka Following Terror Attacks After Sunday's deadly suicide bombings that killed nearly 300 people, the government of Sri Lanka shut off nationwide access to most social media sites and apps citing safety concerns and the spread of false news reports.
Business & Tech Facebook Algorithm Purposely Played Up Stories About Politics, Crime, and Tragedy While Mark Zuckerberg was talking out one side of his mouth in January 2018 about encouraging more "meaningful interactions" with friends and family, Facebook was simultaneously tweaking its News Feed algorithm to display more posts on the topics of "politics, crime, or tragedy."
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Welcoming Congress To Regulate Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's latest masterstroke is to shift blame for all the election meddling and harmful content on the internet onto the government, rather than on Facebook.
Business & Tech Facebook Has Decided That 'White Nationalist' And 'White Separatist' Are Just Two Ways to Say 'Racist' On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it's changing its content moderation policy surrounding the categories of "white nationalism" and "white separatism," acknowledging that these are no different than white supremacy.
SF News Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Copies Of The New Zealand Shooting Video The horrifying 17-minute Facebook Live video made by the accused New Zealand shooter proliferated on social media in the first 24 hours, and Facebook says it removed 1.5 million copies in that first day alone — 1.2 million of which were caught on upload.
SF News Report: Facebook Facing Criminal Investigation Into Massive Data-Sharing Deals Oops, something went wrong — and this criminal probe might be the mother of all Facebook scandals.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Suddenly Thinks Facebook Should Be A 'Privacy-Focused Platform' After a year in which his company's unscrupulous depths were revealed when it comes to mining and monetizing users' data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the future is about privacy.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Reportedly Receiving Mounds of Sensitive Health Data Via Third-Party Apps Without Your Knowledge After a year of especially terrible press, growing government scrutiny, and eroding public affection, Facebook is staring down yet another potential scandal involving sensitive user data.
SF News Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision Many of tech's biggest companies are banding together to resist President Trump's stated decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Per CNet's report, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
SF News The 14 Stereotypes That Facebook Assigns To All Of Us The company that invented the motto “Move fast and break things” certainly managed to break things pretty good during the 2016 election, promoting Russian troll-farm fake news content to as many as 126
SF News Facebook Details Moves To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform After Senators introduced new legislation intended to regulate advertising on social networks, Facebook has unveiled more details about their own attempts to enforce transparency in advertising on their platform. Per TechCrunch, Facebook will
SF News An Alleged MySpace 'Resurgence' Was Fueled Mostly By Ad Fraud The running tech industry joke that is the continued existence of early stage social networking site MySpace just turned into even more of a joke. Once valued at $12 billion, the forgotten MySpace
SF News Op-Ed: Facebook Wouldn't Be As Big Of A Problem For The News If People Actually Clicked And Read Stories The ongoing villainizing of Facebook for its role as a disseminator of fake news and Russian-fed propaganda in the 2016 election necessarily leads to a discussion of another very significant villain: the laziness
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
SF News Google, Facebook, Trump Pledge Aid For Fires The scope of the wildfire disaster in Northern California continues to widen Wednesday, and as they did with recent hurricane-related natural disasters, Google and Facebook have each pledged aid to help victims. Facebook
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Facebook And Instagram Are Down. You'll Be OK. [Update: They're Back] This is how Facebook loaded when I tried to open it just now -- my computer telling me to take a fucking break pic.twitter.com/BCoiyM0MKB— Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) October 11, 2017
SF News Trump Digital Strategy Director Asked For Pro-Trump Facebook Employees To Help Teach Them How To Use Facebook Trump's director of digital strategy, Brad Parscale, explained that he called on pro-Trump employees at Facebook to help the Trump campaign maximize its impact on the social networking platform. According to Bloomberg, Parscale
SF News Google And Facebook Under Fire For Spreading Hoaxes During Las Vegas Attack Immediately following the first announcements that a terrorist had opened fire on Las Vegas concert-goers, people took to the internet for answers. Instead, what they found was Google and Facebook turning up some
SF News Zuckerberg Asks For Forgiveness Regarding Facebook's Role In 'Dividing People' Mark Zuckerberg continued on a trend of public statements regarding Facebook's role in "dividing people," apologizing for the trouble his work may have caused. CNet points out that Zuckerberg's apology came on Saturday,
SF News Department Of Justice Presses Facebook For Information On 'Anti-Administration Activists' The Department of Justice is digging deep into the private accounts of a few Facebook users, as it was revealed today that they're currently probing for information on several "anti-administration activists who have
