Kevin Wolf/AP images for AVAAZ Facebook banned a staggering 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first three months of 2019 — almost as many as the total number of real people who use the social network. On Thursday, the Silicon Valley tech giant released the third edition of its Community Standards Enforcement report, a public […]
Facebook is partnering with a big UK newspaper to publish sponsored articles downplaying ‘technofears’ and praising the company (FB)
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Facebook is paying The Daily Telegraph to run a series of positive sponsored stories about it. The British newspaper is running dozens of stories that defend Facebook on controversial subjects like terrorism, hate speech, and cyber-bullying. It shows how Facebook is attempting to sidestep the often-critical media by buying positive coverage of […]
Chris Cox, a key Facebook exec and lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company amid reshuffle (FB)
There’s a massive shakeup in the leadership of Facebook underway. On Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Chris Cox — a longtime Facebook executive who most recently served as chief product officer — is leaving the company, as is Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp. Cox, a key lieutenant of the 34-year-old billionaire chief exec, […]
Facebook is reportedly under criminal investigation over deals that gave Apple, Amazon, and other companies access to user data (FB)
AP Facebook is under criminal investigation over data-sharing deals it signed with Apple, Amazon, and other major tech companies, reports the New York Times. The partnerships, first reported in December, gave those outside companies to data including friends lists, contact information, and even private messages — and not always with the user’s consent. Most of […]
Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for some users (FB)
Associated Press Facebook’s having an outage. The Silicon Valley social network, as well as its photo app Instagram and messaging platform Messenger, went down for some users on Wednesday. Some users reported they were able to open the social network (albeit slowly) but couldn’t post anything, while for others it wouldn’t load at all. DownDetector, […]