'Looks like it's been cooked with a hairdryer': Facebook group for FRY UP fans offers brutally ...

There's nothing quite like a fry up at breakfast time to set you up for the day, so it's no wonder that the Full English can arouse some very strong passions among enthusiasts. In a quest to find the perfect cooked breakfast, fry-up enthusiasts have created a Facebook group where Brits can shared images ...

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Welder cleared of rape after Facebook message proved him innocent opens up on 'two years of hell'

A MAN who was wrongly jailed for rape has spoken out of the years of hell that only ended when his family managed to find deleted Facebook messages that proved his innocence. Danny Kay spent more than two years behind bars after police relied on an "edited and misleading" conversation between ...

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UK Security Minister Ben Wallace Calls for Facebook, Google, YouTube to Face Tax Fines if They ...

Adding his voice to what bids fair to become one of 2018's biggest trends in Europe – a political “techlash” against internet giants, U.K. security minister Ben Wallace has lashed out at Facebook, Google and YouTube, threatening to impose multimillion pound tax punishments on them for failing to fight ...

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Facebook apologizes for bad content management

Facebook has over 2 billion users and is slowly growing as the titan company extends its reach to other countries that are not yet connected to the network. Having so many people connected to the same network provides a difficult task of regulating the information that is circling on the site, and now ...

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Reality bites for the social media giants like Facebook

Facebook is projected to boost sales by 46 per cent and double net income, but make no mistake: It had a terrible year. Despite its financial performance, the social media giant is facing a reckoning in 2018 as regulators close in on several fronts. Please Subscribe or Log in to continue reading.

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An Indian-origin engineer is the reason why Facebook has run a successful ad business

When he started out on this in 2010, Mehta was the lone engineer in the team and now serves as Facebook's Director of Solutions Engineering and leads a team of more than 100 people which is responsible for Facebook's huge ad revenues. According to emarketer.com, Facebook earned a whopping ...

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Amazon joins in on Facebook and Google ad battle

Amazon joins in on Facebook and Google ad battle ... With Amazon now jumping into the mix of an advertising war, Facebook and Google might start to get worried how this would affect their profit margins, even if both Facebook and Google dominate the ad market with 70% holdings, according to ...

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From the future of bitcoin to Facebook, 2018 in technology

Facebook still has a problem with “fake news” and its efforts to stymie the spread of hoaxes, bad reporting and deliberate propaganda haven't worked. The rot has got so bad that Facebook is experimenting with simply deprioritising news full stop, trialling a news feed in six countries around the world that ...

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Woman dies after writing shocking premonition on Facebook

On May 24, Josephine Nasimiyu posted a disturbing message on her Facebook page that got her family really worried. They wondered whether she had a premonition of her death. Nasimiyu's husband David Okello received a call from his sister who questioned why he had allowed his wife to post the ...

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The new rules of social media

“On Facebook, you're friends with all the people you went to college with. On Twitter, you talk to those you wish you'd gone to college with,” a college friend who favours Twitter over Facebook once said to me, perhaps quoting from a meme. I had to agree. At least with the fact that the names on Facebook ...

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Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik's gripe with competitive mums: 'These are not my people'

Bialik posted a video on her Facebook page and YouTube channel recalling the stressful experience and asked her audience why mothers were so competitive. Bialik said she attended the meeting following the birth of her son Miles, who is now 12, but felt out of place. “When I was a new mom, 13 years ...

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Facebook feedback: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Facebook feedback: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Saturday. Dec 30, 2017 at 10:33 AM Dec 30, 2017 at 7:37 PM. By James Bennett jbennett@c-dh.net. Inmates at the Maury County jail like to complain to The Daily Herald. Some readers theorize it's an election year, and they want to make ...

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Family buries woman who predicted her death, directed husband never to remarry

Josephine who died in a road accident had predicted her death and directed how her body be handled before burial. (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard). On May 24, Josephine Nasimiyu posted a disturbing message on her Facebook page that got her family really worried. They wondered whether she ...

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Watchdog 'must now investigate Facebook's links to Government'

Facebook was also asked what officials received training. It said it complies with legislation and standards relating to interactions with Government and registers lobbying in accordance with the Regulation of Lobbying Act. A Facebook spokeswoman said the company works with politicians who use ...

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Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's Accounts Over US Sanctions

Now to Russia, where the leader of the republic of Chechnya can no longer post on Instagram or Facebook. Ramzan Kadyrov's accounts were recently deactivated after he was put on a U.S. sanctions list earlier this month. Facebook says it was legally obliged to act. To explain more, we're joined by ...

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Bride battling breast cancer says 'I do' 18 hours before her death

and David Mosher in a photo posted to Facebook on Oct. 10, 2016. (Facebook). Lindsay admitted to Karas she feared not living until her big day and when her health took a turn, friends, family and doctors were quick to act. They pushed up the wedding originally scheduled for Dec. 30 and intended to ...

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Social Media Imperialism? Facebook Bans Palestinian Content at Behest of Israel, US

Facebook has been working with Israeli Government officials to suppress Palestinian voices in the social media sphere according to a report published on Saturday in The Intercept. The partnership between the social media giant and officials in Tel Aviv has resulted in the censorship, removal or ...

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Facebook, Google and WhatsApp among tech titans told to join fight against terror or face tax blitz

The refusal of encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp — owned by Facebook and used by terrorists to co-ordinate attacks — to give the security services access to message data is “turning the internet into an anarchic violent space” and means more human surveillance is necessary, he said.

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Meet Vastal Mehta, man behind Facebook's successful advertising business

Facebook, Facebook advertisements, Facebook ad business, Facebook ads, Facebook business, Vatsal Mehta said dynamic ads were first inspired by the complaints of an advertiser he was meeting with in Hamburg, Germany and he then worked with the Facebook Ads team to create a prototype ...

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600pc hike in Facebook content restriction for Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Amidst a crackdown against online blasphemy, the government has tightened its control over Facebook usage this year with 600 percent hike in successful requests for content restrictions, official data released by the social media giant confirms. The report issued this month also revealed ...

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Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's Accounts Over US Sanctions

Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's Accounts Over U.S. Sanctions ... added to a U.S. sanctions list. As a result, his Facebook and Instagam accounts have been deactivated. Guest host Ray Suarez talks with Moscow reporter Charles Maynes. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email ...

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Facebook Drops "Fake News" Red Flags After Users Appear Not to Have Trusted Them

Just one year after introducing its “fake news” red flags, Facebook has discontinued the tool after having to face the fact that it just didn't work. In fact, many users were sharing articles tagged by the social media giant as a result of their being tagged. Facebook, it appears, is does not have the credibility it ...

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California Prosecutes Man For Posting Anti-Muslim Messages On Facebook

California has leveled misdemeanor charges against 41-year-old Mark Feigin after he sent five anti-Muslim posts to the Islamic Center of Southern California's (ICSC) Facebook page in 2016. The California Attorney General's office argues that his comments constituted “repeated contact by means of an ...

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Robots will scour Facebook for criminal activity in a £2billion benefit fraud blitz

FRAUD-busting robots will be used to check Facebook accounts in a massive blitz on benefit cheats. Welfare chiefs have developed cutting-edge artificial intelligence to sniff out crooks who cost taxpayers £40million a week. Facebook is being used as a tool to spot benefit cheats. Getty - Contributor. 3.

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The fight for privacy in this connected age

Facebook knows where you are going, who have been there and what they did. Have you wondered how many ways Facebook is using knowledge about you and not telling you about it? Recently, Facebook denied one of the oldest allegations against it — that it listens to user conversations through the ...

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Investigation Finds Facebook Enforces Hate Speech Unevenly, Facebook Then Apologizes

Content moderation is the biggest issue that Facebook is facing at the moment. From the sharing of fake news to hate groups using the platform to recruit new members, Facebook is having a tough time applying its rules evenly. To combat hate speech being shared on Facebook, it hired an army of 7,500 ...

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Pulitzer Winner Exposes Facebook's 'Censorship Rampage' at US & Israel's Behest

Earlier this month, Israel's Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked boasted that Facebook had approved 95% of the 158 requests to remove content that Tel Aviv categorized as "incitement." According to Greenwald, given that the vast majority of Palestinians use Facebook as a news source, the social media ...

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Facebook comments: Dec. 31, 2017

As reported by the American-Statesman's Sebastian Herrera, Mayor Steve Adler made a bold statement about the city future: “Austin,” Adler said, “should be to automated vehicles what Detroit was to the last century of automakers.” In two years, the city aims to hire an officer to oversee autonomous ...

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Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up

Both posts were violations of Facebook's policies against hate speech. But only one of them was caught by Facebook's army of 7,500 censors — known as content reviewers — who decide whether to allow or remove posts flagged by its 2 billion users. After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook also ...

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Facebook apologises for being inconsistent about offensive posts

As reported by ProPublica, the investigation revealed that in one case, Facebook censors, known as content reviewers, approved a picture of a corpse with the message "the only good muslim is a f...... dead one". However, another post that had the statement "death to the Muslims!!!" was removed.

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Mother's Facebook post on increasing demands of childcare resonates with parents across the world

Being a mum is the hardest job in the world - and pressure from society may be making it even harder. One Australian mum's post highlighting the increasing pressures new mums face has gone viral - and it is resonating with other mothers who struggle to fulfil the expectations society has placed upon ...

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The 3-Second Trick That Helps You Achieve Your Resolutions

And this really, really works, according to the Facebook survey. Those who post their resolutions on social media are 36 percent more likely to achieve them than those who don't. In fact, over half of those surveyed (52 percent to be exact) agreed that sharing their New Year's resolutions with others help ...

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Facebook makes wrong censorship call almost 1/2 the time

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used ...

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Meet Vastal Mehta, man behind Facebook's successful ad business

San Francisco: Facebook owes Indian-origin engineer Vastal Mehta a lot for its success in generating billions of dollars in ad revenues every year as he steers the team that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on the platform. When he ...

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Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the US and Israeli Governments

In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli Government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constitute “incitement.” The meetings – called for and presided over by one of the most extremist ...

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Facebook apologises for inconsistencies in deleting offensive posts

In an analysis of 900 posts, the US-based non-profit investigative newsroom found that content reviewers at Facebook often make different calls on items with similar content, and do not always abide by the company's guidelines. The posts were submitted to ProPublica as part of a crowd-sourced ...

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9 most talked about stories on Facebook: 2017

One topic seemed to dominate the lohud Facebook page in 2017. 'Cuomo' or 'Tappan Zee'. But where to get a good hotdog, where not to eat a taco, where is the coolest movie theater and why is my car shaking were some of the things you wanted to talk about this year. Here's the countdown: ...

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4 ways to protect your Facebook account from hackers

Since a new Monero-mining malware called Digmine spreads via Facebook messenger, users should be aware of the ways how to protect their accounts. Note that there are similar Facebook virus versions which take advantage of unprotected systems and reckless online behavior to make illegal profits ...

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Apple iPhone, Facebook ad missteps end rough year for tech giants

In this March 9, 2015, file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus during an event in San Francisco. Apple is apologizing for secretly slowing down older iPhones, which it says was necessary to avoid unexpected shutdowns related to battery fatigue. (AP file photo).

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Facebook apologises after investigation reveals company's inconsistent and inadequate measures ...

Facebook has apologised after an investigation exposed inconsistencies by moderators in removing offensive posts reported by the social network's users. The investigation reported by ProPublica this week showed that in one case, Facebook censors, called content reviewers, approved a picture of a ...

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Happy New Year 2018 Wishes: SMS, Facebook Status & WhatsApp Messages for Couples

New Delhi: Another year done and dusted... 2017 has come to a close and it's time to embrace and look forward to an all new year. As we usher into 2018, it is time not only to make new plans for the future but also look back at the times gone by. By reminiscing about the year gone by we can be thankful ...

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Florence police: Facebook rumors about human trafficking not valid

FLORENCE, KY - Florence police want the public to know that they do not currently have any reports of human trafficking or abductions in the city, despite posts on social media claiming otherwise. Police said they have received several inquiries in recent days regarding Facebook posts about people ...

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Man Tries to Electrocute Pregnant Wife, Changes Facebook Status to 'Widowed'

A man from Florida was accused of attempting to kill his wife after he wired the front door of their home to a car battery charger in an attempt to electrocute his wife. Flagler County Sheriff's investigators said Michael Wilson, 32, is being accused of trying to kill his wife after he attached electrical devices ...

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Facebook and Twitter face ultimatum in Brexit fake news probe

The MP hit out and accused Twitter of a “completely inadequate” response, and said Facebook had done “no work” to help the probe. If they fail to comply the government would review actions to be taken against the tech titans, and he suggested advertisers should punish social media companies with a ...

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This is Money verdict

Given that this new function lets you link saving to posting on Facebook, you might need to keep a close on your linked current account balance if you're a ... 'I was one of the first users to get access to the Facebook integration and because I post regularly, I have seen a big boost to my monthly savings.

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David Behrens: OMG! Why I resolve that Facebook has GTG in the New Year

One of the people who used to run Facebook went on record the other week as saying he regretted the whole darn thing. Social media, said Chamath Palihapitiya, was destroying the social fabric. “No civil discourse, no co-operation; misinformation, mistruth,” he said. It was refreshing to hear an honest ...

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Viral 'Hot Cop' Resigns After Investigation Revealed Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts

Internal Affairs officers were reportedly investigating Hamill regarding anti-Semitic statements he made on Facebook, and whether he had sex while on duty. “Both allegations would have been sustained with a possible recommendation of up to termination,” Gainesville PD spokesman Ben Tobias said in ...

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Facebook and Twitter face January 18 deadline to comply with British investigation of fake news ...

“It's been over a month since we made the request to Facebook for this information and we need to see some action,” Collins said. “They have ignored our requests … for information on any activity relating to fake accounts and in fact only responded in relation to accounts set up in the USA but not set up ...

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Facebook post goes viral after suggesting the small thing we could all do to to help emergency ...

Facebook post goes viral after suggesting the small thing we could all do to to help emergency services. It's really as simple as this. Share; Comments. By. Zahra Mulroy. Tom Gainey. 18:45, 29 DEC 2017. News. Enter your postcode to see news and information near you Community updates, Crime ...

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Palliative care and euthanasia do not go side by side... How do you classify things like dying with dignity? Is dignity the same to patients and their caregivers? Who are you to know if a person is suffering or not? What if that person wants to live even when he is suffering? Grace Ho Lim. Euthanasia ...

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Facebook, Twitter face deadline in Brexit fake news probe

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are facing a deadline in Britain to cooperate with an inquiry into so-called fake news in the Brexit referendum campaign, a parliamentary committee chairman said Friday. The companies have been given until January 18 to share information requested by British ...

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Facebook WARNING: New virus could takeover over your computer to mine Bitcoin

The new malware – dubbed Digmine – affects desktop versions of Facebook Messenger when running inside the Google Chrome web browser, Trend Micro researchers have claimed. Digmine works by hijacking the processing power in a desktop computer and using it to generate coins and confirm ...

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Facebook, Twitter face deadline in Brexit fake news probe

LONDON: Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are facing a deadline in Britain to cooperate with an inquiry into so-called fake news in the Brexit referendum campaign, a parliamentary committee chairman said Friday. The companies have been given until January 18 to share information ...

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Malacañang defends Duterte tapping Facebook for 2016 polls

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang came to the defense of President Rodrigo Duterte for making use of Facebook to campaign during the 2016 presidential elections. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Friday, December 29, that it would have been “foolhardy” for any political candidate not ...

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Facebook apologizes for inconsistent hate speech enforcement

Facebook has apologized for its uneven enforcement involving hate speech, allowing some offensive content to remain while removing others. A recent report called attention to the discrepancy, showing some offensive posts that were allowed to remain while others were deleted. When asked to review ...

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Facebook's Deletion of Ramzan Kadyrov And Who Controls The Web?

Last week Facebook quietly deleted the accounts of Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov across its platforms, in the process both cutting him off from his 4 million followers and instantly removing all of his posts he'd made over time, effectively eliminating any trace of him ever existing in its walled ...

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Amazon muscling in on the turf of Google and Facebook

Google and Facebook dominate the extremely lucrative business of selling digital ads, but experts say Amazon is positioning itself to snatch away market share. At the same time, the company has been on a Bay Area expansion binge as it battles for more of the region's top tech talent. “They have made ...

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Fianna Fáil accuses Facebook of bias over training sessions

Fianna Fáil has accused Facebook of engaging in “preferential treatment” after the tech giant trained government ministers in the best ways to engage with their constituents online. Officials from the Department of An Taoiseach were invited to Facebook's headquarters earlier in the year so that they ...

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Long lost half-sisters connect after lucky Facebook post

An off-chance Facebook post about a long-lost grandfather has led to two half-sisters meeting for the first time. Karen Foscay and Gayle Brown are half-sisters who connected after Foscay's daughter, Tammy Faulkner, posted on Facebook about a grandfather she had never met in a Facebook group ...

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Facebook Messenger Bots: What Every Marketer Needs to Know

Sophia the robot just made headlines by being the first artificial-intelligence-powered robot to get honorary citizenship from Saudi Arabia. This makes me feel like it's time for us to embrace the machines and cozy up with a tool that more and more marketers are using these days: Facebook Messenger ...

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Best tech ads 2017: Call of Duty best, Facebook worst

Best tech ads 2017: Call of Duty best, Facebook worst. Commentary: A look back at how tech companies tried to communicate in 2017 offers many sobering moments. And some that boggle the mind. by. Chris Matyszczyk. December 29, 2017 2:00 PM PST. Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted ...

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Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build tools and infrastructure

But Facebook says that one of its success stories in recent years involves a relatively small group of engineers — in fact, originally it was just one engineer, Vastal Mehta, who serves as Facebook's director of solutions engineering and now leads a team of more than 100 people. That team works with ...

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Facebook, Twitter Given Deadline To Produce Russia-Linked Brexit Information

Social-media giants Facebook and Twitter have been given until January 18 to turn over information related to allegations of Russian interference in Britain's 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union. Damian Collins, chairman of the British Parliament's culture and media committee, said on ...

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Facebook, cocaine, opioids: How addictive is the social network?

The pitfalls of social media and in conjunction, its largest players, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, have been well documented. Former Facebook employees have called out the company for doing untold damages to people's brains and perhaps even "damaging how society works.".

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Facebook Admits Its Censors Are Failing to Consistently Define Hate Speech

In a new report from Pro Publica, Facebook apologized for inconsistently policing hate speech on its platform. Pro Publica reporters submitted 49 samples of posts from users who believed moderators made the wrong call, either by removing legitimate expression or by allowing hate speech to remain ...

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Good Night Facebook

I spent the intervening minutes between classes and more extended periods of time at night pulling down on the Facebook application, waiting for the reassuring chirp that signaled I was about to experience a familiar, addictive, and fleeting sense of knowledge about my social world. “How do I want to ...

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'Hot cop' quits jobs after anti-Semitic posts found on Facebook account

It turns out he's since resigned from Gainesville Police Department over allegations he wrote anti-Semitic posts on Facebook. He quit his job on December 6 — the same day he was supposed to appear before an internal review. Hamill was under investigation after it emerged that he wrote that 'stupid ...

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Facebook AI researchers figured out how to make avatars look like they're playing music

Facebook relied on YouTube videos of piano and violin recitals to teach artificial neural networks about the connection between body gestures and music. From there, they got the systems to generate videos of avatars just based on audio. The researchers think the observed connection could be "very ...

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Facebook apologizes after report shows inconsistencies in removing hate speech

Facebook has taken plenty of criticism on the platform's algorithms designed to keep content within the community guidelines, but a new round of investigative reporting suggests the company's team of human review staff could see some improvements too. In a study of 900 posts, ProPublica reports that ...

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Apple's battery mea culpa joins rapidly growing list of corporate apologies

Apple apologized after consumers demanded an explanation for reports that the company was intentionally slowing older phones. Companies from Netflix and Facebook to Equifax and Yahoo have been forced to apologize for past mishaps. In other industries, there have been recent apologies from ...

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Beware of contracting a cryptocurrency-mining virus from Facebook Messenger

A virus that borrows your computer's processing power to mine cryptocurrency without your knowledge is spreading through Facebook Messenger, security experts at Trend Micro discovered last week. The virus, named Digmine, seems to have originated in South Korea and has also been reported in ...

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Facebook, Twitter Threatened With Sanctions in Britain

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter could face sanctions in Britain if they fail to be more forthcoming in providing details about Russian disinformation campaigns that used their platforms in the run-up to last year's Brexit referendum, the chairman of a British parliamentary inquiry committee warned ...

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Palace shrugs off report Facebook helped install Duterte

“Well, the technology exists and it would have been foolhardy for any political candidate not to tap Facebook as a campaign tool. All candidates did so, unfortunately for his detractors, President Duterte appeared to have been the best candidate who utilized Facebook the most,” said presidential ...

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The group sent Facebook a sample of 49 items containing hate speech

One post showed a picture of a black man with a missing tooth and Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his head was left up. The caption read: 'Yeah, we needs to be spending dat money on food stamps wheres we can gets mo water melen an fried chicken'. Facebook defended the decision, saying it did ...

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Florida 'hot cop' resigns amid probe into anti-Semitic Facebook posts

A Gainesville, Florida, police officer who gained unexpected fame as one of the "hot cops" responding to Hurricane Irma has resigned from the department amid allegations he made anti-Semitic Facebook posts and had sex with a woman while on duty. Gainesville Police Department Officer Michael ...

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Pizzeria customer pays over $5K for Facebook defamation

An Israeli woman who "shamed" a pizzeria on Facebook will pay 18,000 NIS ($5,187) in fines, Nazareth's Magistrates Court ruled. The woman, a Nazareth resident, shamed Migdal Haemek's "Italkia" pizzeria on Facebook, writing that the pizza was "gross" and causing the owner, T., to lose income and ...

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Facebook deletes accounts of Chechnya leader hit with US sanctions

Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic and one of Vladimir Putin's staunchest allies, was a frequent Facebook and Instagram user up until recently. The controversial leader found himself locked out of both social networks on December 23rd, leaving him unable to post photos of himself ...

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Facebook, Twitter and social media's road to federal regulation

The extent of Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election remains unclear, but it's no secret that social media played a major role. This year brought with it a great deal of scrutiny for tech giants, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Google. These three companies came under the US ...

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Stop Using Facebook Ads to Tell the World How Great You Are

If you fancy yourself an entrepreneur of sorts, your Facebook feed is littered with people you've never heard of that “cracked the code” of making money online, and they just can't wait to show you how they did it. It was amazing at first. Then it became cool. Then “neat.” Now, its like you're walking past a ...

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Google and Facebook broke a promise to advertisers

Tech platforms like Google and Facebook love to boast about being "open." Too often that means they're a free for all. In 2017, it became clear that the open nature of these giants means they can't possibly keep track of what kind of content appears on their platforms. Media selling is, at its heart, about ...

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Facebook Falls Victim to Crypto Mining Malware

It has happened as reports are that hackers have tapped Facebook Messenger as a means to mine Monero digital currency. Reportedly, a crypto bot is being spread through the app that takes control of its Messenger accounts to mine the crypto. This bot has been named Digmine, and first surfaced in ...

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She Wants to Make Sure You're Really Watching Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg has said digital video is the future of Facebook. It's Fidji Simo's job to make sure he's right. Simo, vice president of product for Facebook, oversees the company's effort to transform itself into a hub for web video of all kinds, including a new television-like destination that is Facebook's ...

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Not much to 'like' if Facebook job ads ignore older workers

The report adds that Facebook, which is relatively new to selling job recruitment services, encourages clients to select its target audience and then uses its deep data reserves to find those users. Facebook followers that fall outside the parameters of a company's selected group don't see the ads, ...

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Snapchat Copies Facebook Feature For Once With 'A Look Back at 2017'

Prior to that, Facebook created a carbon copy of Snapchat's day-long, vanishing post idea in Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, which gained 100 million users following the update last year. The company also previously aped Snapchat's face filters and rewinded video features for ...

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Facebook apologises after investigation exposes string of mistakes by moderators

In one case, a picture of a corpse with the words "the only good muslim is a f------ dead one" was approved by Facebook moderators, while a comment stating "death to the Muslims!!!" was removed. Both posts are violations of Facebook's policy against hate speech, but only the former was deemed to be ...

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Humans Of Hindutva Re-Activates To Prove A Point That Facebook Did Not Delete The Page

In a fresh response, the admin of the page came down heavily on the people making allegations. Calling them "lie peddlers", he said: "Itne bhi desperate mat ho yaar (Don't be so desperate friends). I'm deleting the page. Aren't you content with that? Must you peddle lies even now? Facebook didn't ...

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Heartrending final Facebook post of young mother who died on Christmas Day

A young mother spoke of how "lucky" she felt in a final Facebook post, weeks before she died on Christmas Day. Kirsten Hawksey, 23, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia on 27 November. Taking to Facebook a few days later, the dental nurse from Merseyside, who had a 15-month-old ...

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How To Lure A Giant Like Facebook Into Buying Your Company

John Warrillow , Contributor I write about improving the value of your business. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Charles Jolley. Over at The Value Builder System™, we've worked with more than 30,000 owners to help them improve their value and one of our mantras is “a great ...

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'Humans of Hindutva' page quits Facebook after admin claims receiving death threats

'Humans of Hindutva', a parody page on Facebook that routinely took aim at right-wing fundamentalism and 'Hindutva' ideology, went offline on Facebook yesterday. The page was inspired by 'Humans of New York', a page created by Brandon Stanton that posted regular satirical content on topics such ...

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Senior MP warns Facebook and Twitter they face 'sanctions' from Parliament if they keep ignoring a ...

Facebook and Twitter could face 'sanction' if they fail to properly respond to a Parliamentary inquiry into fake news, a senior MP warned today. Damian Collins demanded the social networks work harder to satisfy his Culture, Media and Sport Committee investigation. The Tory MP set the tech giants a ...

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China denies supplying oil to North Korea; Facebook and Twitter threatened with sanctions

A UK parliamentary group warned Facebook and Twitter (Guardian) that they will be subject to sanctions if they continue to provide inadequate information to an inquiry into the influence of fake news on the June 2016 UK referendum on leaving the EU. The committee running the inquiry has asked for ...

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Facebook and Twitter must be punished if they obstruct Parliament's Russia fake news probe, says ...

Facebook and Twitter must be punished if they continue to refuse to co-operate with a Parliamentary inquiry into Russian interference in the Brexit vote, a senior MP has said. Damian Collins hit out as anger grows over the social media giants stonewalling the “fake news” probe by the digital, culture, ...

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Roque says Duterte campaign team made good use of Facebook in 2016

In a 10-minute segment aired Wednesday, MSNBC's The Beat news anchor Ari Melber reported that Facebook had flew into the Philippines three of its employees who spent a week holding training sessions with candidates' campaign team, including Duterte's. “But giving tips to a few campaigns in a ...

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Take part: UK parliament threatens to sanction Facebook and Twitter in fake news inquiry

A UK parliamentary group warned Facebook and Twitter (Guardian) that they will be subject to sanctions if they continue to provide inadequate information to an inquiry into the influence of fake news on the UK's referendum on leaving the EU. The committee running the inquiry asked the social media ...

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Palace on MSNBC special report on fake news: Duterte used Facebook to his advantage during ...

“On the other issue of Facebook being utilized by President Duterte, well, the technology exists and would have been foolhardy for any political candidate not to tap Facebook as a campaign tool,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said in an audio statement to reporters. “All candidates did so, ...

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Facebook under fire for aiding Duterte's campaign

Facebook's co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg was first confronted about his company's role in the rise of US President Donald Trump's rise to power in September this year. He vehemently denied the social network's involvement in catapulting Trump to the White House. "I don't want anyone to use our tools ...

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Snapchat copies Facebook's 'year in review' feature for a change

Common consensus is that Snapchat serves as a free R&D team for Facebook to get ideas to copy into Instagram. The internet giant has a rather suspicious habit of copying Snapchat's most popular features just months after they roll out, but for once, the tables are being turned. Just as Facebook has a ...

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Social media giants 'could be destroyed' by public backlash over the way they operate, says top ...

Twitter's response was called 'completely inadequate' by Damian Collins, chairman of the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee, while he accused Facebook of doing virtually 'no work' to help the probe. Last night, Mr Collins warned Twitter and Facebook they could face sanctions unless ...

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Facebook admits it made a mistake pulling post that sparked police investigation

Facebook has admitted it made a mistake when it pulled the post of a London teacher alleging an abuse of power by a local principal. Najwa Zebian named Michael Deeb in a post Dec. 18, detailing a lengthy relationship where she accuses him of "gendered violence" and "financial abuse." Six days ...

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Facebook: Kadyrov's Accounts Blocked Because of US Sanctions

Facebook says it blocked the social-media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov because the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader had become subject to financial and travel sanctions imposed by the U.S. government. The company said in a statement Thursday it had the "legal obligation" to disable Kadyrov's ...

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What does Facebook consider hate speech?

Our analysis of how Facebook implements its hate-speech rules shows that its content reviewers often make different calls on whether to allow or delete items with similar content. To highlight this inconsistency, 3 pairs of posts on the same themes are shown below, along with Facebook's decisions in ...

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'Arrogant' Facebook & Twitter must tackle fake news or break up, says top academic

Facebook shareholders this summer urged founder Mark Zuckerberg to produce an annual report to detail what it is doing to stamp it out. The company recently announced it would stop displaying 'flag' warnings next to suspected fake news stories on its site – as research suggested it would have little ...

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Man's heartbreaking Facebook post about daughter's heroin overdose death goes viral

A father shares the heartbreaking story of his daughter's overdose death in a viral Facebook post. (KTRK). WTVD. Kaylee Merchak. Thursday, December 28, 2017 02:13PM. EASTLAKE, Ohio --. An Ohio man's Facebook post about losing his daughter to her heroin addiction is reaching people around the ...

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You can help the web be better in 2018: just ditch Facebook and use your browser instead

Facebook created the newsfeed, and then turned to publishers/media outlets, and said: Guess what? Everyone's on Facebook. You want a piece of the action? You're gonna play ball with us. You'll put share buttons on all of your stories. You'll participate in our Facebook Instant Articles program. You'll ...

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Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up

Facebook's community standards prohibit violent threats against people based on their religious practices. So when ProPublica reader Holly West saw this graphic Facebook post declaring that “the only good Muslim is a fucking dead one,” she flagged it as hate speech using the social network's ...

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Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman's Accounts, Raising Policy Questions

The strongman leader of the Chechen Republic has long been a prolific social media user, filling his accounts with photos of him cuddling his cat, lifting weights or soliciting poems about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. So when Ramzan Kadyrov's Facebook and Instagram accounts, which had four ...

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On Facebook, viral reach for branded-content ads eclipses standard ads

If brands want to attract extra attention for their ads on Facebook, they may be better off paying a publisher or influencer to produce a branded-content post through their Pages and paying to promote that post as an ad instead of a post published to the brand's own Page. On Facebook, people can extend ...

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Chechnya's leader got kicked off Facebook and Instagram because of US sanctions. Why only him?

MOSCOW — Until this week, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov's rants, wishes and selfies were there for all to see on Facebook and Instagram. He posed with actor Gerard Depardieu and boxer Floyd Mayweather. He posted videos of him beating up his sports minister in a boxing ring.

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Facebook and Twitter face sanctions if they fail to help 'fake news' inquiry

Facebook and Twitter have been threatened with sanctions if they refuse to help a Parliamentary investigation into Russian interference in the EU referendum. The chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, which is conducting an inquiry into “fake news”, has given the social media ...

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Facebook Inc Stock Isn't Running Out of Room To Grow

Social media giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has been turning in impressive gains this year with shares rising more than 50% over the past 12 months. FB stock has seen its share price decline over the past month though, as investors wonder whether or not the social media firm will be able to deliver ...

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Facebook Just Created More Ad Inventory -- Through Instagram

The move was likely made in an effort meet advertising demand for Facebook, according to a source familiar with the matter. The social network owns Instagram and says it is maxed out on ad inventory. Facebook rolled out ads to its 1.2 billion users on its Messenger platform in July for similar reasons.

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Take a Facebook break

Last month, I wrote a piece for the Akron Beacon Journal on my decision to delete my Facebook account, unpacking my theory that social media in general, Facebook in particular, is creating a worsening of civility and society. It concluded, “…I bet you'd be hard pressed to find a single user that doesn't ...

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Reports: Facebook Says Kadyrov Social-Media Accounts Blocked Due To US Sanctions

Facebook says it blocked the social-media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov because the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader had become subject to financial and travel sanctions imposed by the U.S. government, U.S. and Russia media are reporting. Media outlets including The Washington Post and Russian ...

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Facebook and Twitter threatened with sanctions in UK 'fake news' inquiry

Facebook and Twitter could face sanctions if they continue to stonewall parliament over Russian interference in the EU referendum, the chair of a Commons inquiry has said. Damian Collins, chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee, which is looking into so-called “fake news”, ...

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Facebook Stock Could End 2017 With a Negative Chart

Social media giant Facebook, Inc. (FB) is one of the top momentum stocks of 2017 but could end the year with a negative weekly chart. I view myself as a power user of the Facebook with nearly 5,000 Friends and two fan pages under my control. I even did some Christmas shopping for some interesting ...

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Mark Zuckerberg's Plan to Save Facebook from Itself

“Facebook is a global company, and it was ground zero for this Putin-Duterte playbook long before Zuckerberg was playing naïve about 'fake news,' ” Ari Melber pronounced on Wednesday night. Melber, a legal journalist and the host of MSNBC's The Beat, who has become a vocal critic of Facebook in ...

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Can Facebook win its battle against election interference in 2018?

At the beginning of this year, Facebook was hostile to the suggestion that it may have played an unwitting part in a foreign influence campaign. After the election of Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, described the suggestion that his site may have swayed voters as a “crazy ...

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'Yuck': Woman fined NIS 18000 for defaming pizzeria on Facebook

An Israeli woman who complained on Facebook about a pizza she purchased from the local pizzeria, using the word “yuck,” to describe it, was slapped with a NIS 18,000 ($5,000) fine. A judge in the Nazareth Magistrate's Court found that the woman, a resident of a small town in the north, had defamed ...

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Which MEPs' Facebook posts got the most emoji reactions in 2017?

The Northern League is best-known for adopting Eurosceptic views and anti-immigration policies under Salvini's leadership. Salvini has the most Facebook page likes out of all the MEPs studied, scoring 1.96 million page likes. His Facebook posts tallied a total of 26.38 million reactions in 2017.

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A Monero Mining Bot Is Spreading Through Facebook Messenger

If you've interacted with Facebook, you may have had run-ins with spam bots that infest your profile (or your friends' profiles) and post links or advertisements without your permission. Well, the same malware that tells your friends to “Check out this link for 90% off a BRAND NEW pair of Ray Bands. WOW!

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Man's heartbreaking Facebook post about daughter's heroin overdose death goes viral

A father shares the heartbreaking story of his daughter's overdose death in a viral Facebook post. (KTRK). WTVD. Kaylee Merchak. Thursday, December 28, 2017 09:59AM. EASTLAKE, Ohio --. An Ohio man's Facebook post about losing his daughter to her heroin addiction is reaching people around the ...

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Why Facebook Will Continue To Beat The Market In 2018

Although management states that ad load is approaching full capacity on Facebook's main site/app, the future option to monetize WhatsApp, Messanger, and Instagram should pull in more than enough sales to offset any core revenue slowdowns. Facebook's purchase of Oculus — for $2bln — could be ...

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Facebook is censoring people the US government sanctions

When the US government sanctioned Chechnya's despotic leader Ramzan Kadyrov for human rights abuses Dec. 20, he seemed pleased, calling it an “award” from America and declaring himself “a great man.” “I've said before, but I'll repeat for the especially forgetful, that I wouldn't go to the US even if ...

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MSNBC puts Facebook, Zuckerberg under scrutiny in report about Duterte, fake news

MSNBC anchor Ari Melber put Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg under scrutiny in a report that focused on how the social media network and fake news played a role in the successful election campaigns of US President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte. Melber indicated that ...

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The 10 most important tech stories of 2017

Facebook's billions of users are now accessing essential services like voter registration and suicide prevention through the platform. Entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are household names. But the technology sector's runaway growth has also earned it significant pushback. Films like "The ...

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Virus is turning computers into cryptocurrency 'miners' by infecting logged in Facebook Messenger ...

HACKERS are infecting computers through the Facebook Messenger app to "mine" for cryptocurrency, experts have warned. "Mining" is the procedure by which a computer solves a difficult mathematical problem with a 64-digit solution to process a new Bitcoin. A virus is infecting Facebook Messenger ...

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Mother saves child's life after posting about her daughter's eye cancer on Facebook

A mother who posted about her daughter's rare eye cancer on Facebook saved another child's life after her mother saw the post. 33-year-old Charlotte Salisbury's daughter Felicity was born with Retinoblastoma, which only affects 40-50 children in the UK per year, but it went undiagnosed for nine ...

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Police investigating Facebook video of alleged sexual assault in Upstate NY bar

Police are investigating a video shared on Facebook that shows an alleged sexual assault at an Upstate New York bar. Penn Yan Police tell News10NBC that a video appears to have captured an unconscious woman being assaulted on the bar at Lloyd's Limited Pub sometime between Christmas Eve ...

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Dealing with hate-spewing anonymous Facebook-Twitter trolls and bots: Is Aadhaar authentication ...

Reports that Facebook is asking new users to enter their names as present in their Aadhaar cards foreshadows the possibility that the social networking giant could in future use the Aadhaar database to authenticate identity of those using its platform. Facebook has put out a cute explanation saying it ...

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We Are Not Collecting Aadhaar Data: Facebook

We Are Not Collecting Aadhaar Data: Facebook. Facebook said the goal of the test was to help new users understand how to sign up to Facebook with their real name and connect with their friends and family. All India | Press Trust of India | Updated: December 28, 2017 18:52 IST. 1Share. EMAIL. PRINT.

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Mark Zuckerberg's real campaign: Save Facebook

Warner also wants Facebook to open data to outside experts so they can see if the full scope of Russian manipulation has been disclosed. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, alone among top tech execs, confronted the controversy head-on, in a half-hour-plus interview with Axios. Facebook should be ...

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"I Will Use Code Language To Update Facebook": IAS Officer On Jammu and Kashmir ...

"Heard that government employees will be subjected to foot whipping for operating Facebook (account). From now on I will use coded language to update," Mr Faesal, the first Kashmiri to top the civil services examination in 2009, wrote on his Facebook page hours after the government issued the gag ...

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History shows Netflix and Facebook are the FAANG stocks to own to start 2018 with a bang

Netflix and Facebook could be the best so-called FAANG stocks for investors at the start of the year. FAANG refers to Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet. These stocks have seen big rallies this year. Using data analytics platform Kensho, CNBC looked at the performance of ...

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Found him! Facebook appeal reunites Polish worker with the pay packet he left in a pub before ...

Mr Dore wrote on the pub's Facebook page: 'After 1.5 million Facebook views, Twitter activity well over 3 million interactions, messages from Australia, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Canada all over (jeez Canada loved this story, we'd have found him in about ten minutes there), all through Europe and ...

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Facebook confirms giving Aadhaar prompt for new users aimed at checking fake accounts

Facebook has started to test a new feature for new Indian users aimed at encouraging them to enter the site using their real names. The new feature on the popular social media site is aimed at bringing a check on the rising number of fake accounts. As per a report in the Gadgets360, the new test feature ...

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Facebook's Aadhaar prompt was meant to check fake accounts, not to collect user data

Even though everything from your phone number to bank account now has to be linked to Aadhaar, Facebook will not be joining this list yet, as opposed to what many users got afraid of recently. After a test by the social media giant in the country got users apprehensive, it clarified that it is only trying to ...

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Mandaue Councilor Demetrio dies, Colleagues post condolences on Facebook

Colleagues in the City Council and the Mandaue City Hall have been posting messages on Facebook to express their condolence to the Cortes family for the passing of a man many would fondly call “Tatay Jun.” “Today our City lost a great man whose dedication towards public service incredibly defied ...

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Amazon's Digital Ad Push Threatens Facebook, Google

subsidiary Google currently have on that market, and transform Amazon into a strong international player in the ever-growing $209 billion global digital ad market, according to CNBC. As of the close of trading on Wednesday, Amazon is up 58% year to date, Facebook is up over 54% and Google is up ...

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Facebook responds to uproar over Aadhaar "test"; announces intention of scrapping the ...

Following the uproar over the discovery that Facebook was asking new users to enter their name as per their Aadhaar card, the social network giant has issued a statement clarifying the situation. Labelling it as a “test”, Facebook claims that the mention of “Aadhaar” in the sign-up process was part of a ...

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We are not collecting Indian users' Aadhaar data: Facebook

NEW DELHI: Social networking giant Facebook has clarified that it is not collecting any Aadhaar data and was requesting people to key in only their name "as per aadhaar" records during sign up just for a small test. "The test ran with a small number of users in India and has now finished... We currently ...

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Facebook Knows If You're Labour Or Nationalist, And Here's How To Find Out

Maltese people who go to this page will immediately find out whether they are considered a Labour supporter or a Nationalist supporter by Facebook. Since Facebook is using its own algorithms to deduce your political leanings, it could technically be wrong in how it places you - but it probably isn't.

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Grief-stricken son says mum's partner will "rot in hell" in Facebook post after they're both found ...

Pauline's son, Paul Gresham, posted a comment on Armstrong's Facebook page early yesterday saying he would “rot in hell”. He raged on Armstrong's page: "Kevin Armstrong rot in helll u c**t we willl meet again." His partner, Danielle Berry, urged distraught Paul to stay off social media and labelled ...

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Safety Check: is Facebook becoming fear's administrator-in-chief?

Where, in the west, Facebook has been criticised for using the function unnecessarily, a large number of Iranians criticised the social network for not activating the feature quickly enough, after more than 400 died during the Iran-Iraq earthquake in November. Facebook says it did activate Safety Check ...

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Facebook ducks query on Aadhaar linkage in future

NEW DELHI: Facebook has asked its new users to use their Aadhaar name for opening an account. A Facebook spokesperson told TOI, "We want to make sure people can use the names they're known by on Facebook, and can easily connect with friends and family. This is a small test where we provide ...

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More Facebook friends are asking you for money

Mark Ryan stretches to write a message on a wall at a conference for small business owners at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The Facebook Fit bootcamp at the social network's campus capped a five-city tour designed to help small businesses maximize their ...

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Facebook rolling back controversial initiative to fight fake news

Facebook announced last week that it is rolling back its controversial “Disputed Flags” measure next to articles deemed fake news amid studies showing it does not stop the ... Instead, Facebook will now show “Related Articles” next to fake news, giving more context to users on any particular story.

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Gambling-style Facebook apps used by young

Gambling-style apps which target young people are being offered on Facebook without any checks on age. Scientific Games, a supplier of fixed-odds betting terminals, provides “social games”. One app features characters from The Flintstones while another is themed around the Rapunzel fairytale.

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Facebook and Google users in Northern Ireland warned about scam

The public has been urged to be vigilant online as scammers have been identified conning unsuspecting victims out of money. Scamwise NI, who work in partnership with the PSNI through NI Direct, have issued the public alert for those using the social media platforms Facebook and Google Hangouts.

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Amazon Dangling Data Carrot To Take Ad Share From Google, Facebook

For some time investors have been concerned over the possibility the digital ad market could be disrupted, and Google (GOOG) (GOOGL and Facebook (F) would face significant pressure because their business models are heavily reliant upon digital ad revenue. That time appears to have come, ...

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We were behind 2015 landslide for the SNP, claims Facebook

Facebook's intervention in the 2015 general election was responsible for triggering the landslide for the Scottish National Party, the company says. In a “success story” post on its website, Facebook boasts that the SNP “used a powerful combination of Facebook's targeting and engagement tools to ...

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Mother of 3 receives liver transplant from complete stranger after Facebook plea

One woman's plea for a liver donor seemed close to impossible until her message made its way to a perfect stranger, who ultimately became her perfect match. Melinda Ray, a 35-year-old wife and mother of three from Colorado, was dying from a genetic disease that was rapidly destroying her liver.

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Are Facebook, Google, Twitter Manipulating Users? Washington Wants to Know

Google, Twitter and Facebook face scrutiny in Washington for allowing ads backed by Russia on their platforms during the 2016 elections. At the same time, consumers are spending more time than before on social media. According to a Nielsen report, Americans 18 and over spent about 5 hours and 30 ...

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Christmas and Facebook depression

First, some stray thoughts from me this Christmas season: Do not be despondent, annoyed or envious when people repeatedly and continuously make Facebook posts about their awesome blessings and great fortune that most people in this world can only pine for. Christmas should not be such a cruel ...

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Scam Alert! That $75 Meijer Coupon On Facebook Is Fake

If you've seen a $75 coupon for Meijer grocery stores on your Facebook page—don't click on it. The fake discount, which promises $75 off any order that is $100 or more until December 31, is a scam designed to introduce malware to your computer if you click on the link. Meijer's public relations ...

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More Facebook friends are asking you for money

“People have always come together on Facebook to support the causes they care about, and we build products to make that easier,” he said. “We've seen people raise money for disaster relief, education, the environment and for friends and family in need. Our goal is to help make this even easier for ...

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Facebook Users Take Battle Over Tracking To Appellate Court

U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, Calif. dismissed the case last month, ruling that the users couldn't proceed with allegations that Facebook violated its privacy promises. The consumers recently filed papers initiating an appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Davila's ruling ...

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NowThis ranked most-viewed 360-degree video publisher on Facebook

The NowThis x Samsung Gear 360 campaign was the most-viewed branded-content campaign on Facebook this year, making NowThis the top 360-degree video publisher on the social platform with more than 161.5 million views, according to a press release by parent company Group Nine Media ...

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Scam alert: $75 Meijer coupon on Facebook is fake

GRAND RAPIDS — A fake $75 off coupon from Meijer is circulating social media. The fake discount is making rounds on Facebook, touting that Meijer will take $75 off any order $100 or more between now and Dec. 31. According to Meijer's public relations manager, Joe Hirschmugl, the offer is fake.

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Digmine Cryptocurrency Miner Spreads via Facebook Messenger

Security firm Trend Micro last week disclosed the latest method, issuing a warning about a campaign that abuses Facebook Messenger to help deliver and control a cryptocurrency miner to victim systems. Trend Micro has dubbed the cryptocurrency miner campaign "Digmine," reporting that the attack ...

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Witness Google's and Facebook's insane digital ad dominance in these two charts

Back then, the digital ad market was much more diversified, with a number of tech players making up the market share. Today, things are very different than those projections implied they would be. Recent eMarketer numbers show that Google and Facebook make up more than 60% of the U.S. digital ...

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Facebook apologizes for blocking posts selling sealskin crafts

A new Facebook policy that bans the sale of animal products caused frustration for vendors in Nunavut, who were blocked from posting sealskin crafts in the lead up to Christmas. The commerce policy launched in Canada this fall, but it was only in the last few weeks that vendors noticed their posts being ...

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Facebook: Fake News Labels Made People Want to Click Even More

Facebook will no longer flag potentially false news articles with a "disputed" tag, the social media company announced Monday. The announcement comes in response to a study that found that the flags actually encouraged some users to click the links. "Putting a strong image, like a red flag, next to an ...

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Facebook asks new users in India to enter names as per Aadhaar

Facebook has begun testing a feature with a set of new users in India where they are being asked to enter names as per their Aadhaar details. The social media giant, however, is not asking new users to give their Aadhaar number but just the name as written on their Aadhaar cards. "This is a small test ...

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Gambling-style apps offered on Facebook without age checks

The company behind thousands of the UK's fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) is offering gambling-style apps on Facebook without age checks, prompting allegations that children are being exposed to the risk of addiction. Earlier this month, the industry watchdog warned that more than 60,000 ...

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Google, Facebook are recruiting potential spies away from UK agencies

The UK spy agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) failed to meet their spy recruitment goals by 22% this year due to big tech firms like Google, Apple and Facebook offering as much as 5 times more pay than the government, Quartz and Business Insider reported. What's next: ...

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