Facebook bans ads promoting cryptocurrencies

This includes promotional ads for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, as well as Initial Coin Offerings, which give people the opportunity to buy into a new cryptocurrency. The new policy is designed to prevent scammers from taking advantage of users. Facebook highlighted one potential such instance as ...

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This is the age your child should be allowed on Facebook

A coalition of advocacy groups implored Facebook FB, +0.61% to kill its Messenger service for children in a letter to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. Child advocates worry children as young as six years old could experience the negative effects of social media from the app. Authored by ...

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Facebook bans all ads for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Facebook said on Tuesday that no "deceptive promotional practices such as cryptocurrency" will be allowed in any ads on its website. The new Facebook policy released on Tuesday virtually bans all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, across the ...

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Facebook bans advertisements for cryptocurrency exchanges

Facebook brought the hammer down on “misleading financial products” on Tuesday, January 30, by effectively banning any and all advertisements for cryptocurrency exchanges, initial coin offerings, and binary options trading from any Facebook platform. That includes Facebook proper, Instagram, ...

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Facebook Bans Ads for Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies

SAN FRANCISCO — Want to get rich quick through Bitcoins or other virtual currencies? You'll have to do it without Facebook. The social network said Tuesday that it would ban all ads for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, in order to stop promotions that it sees as “frequently associated with misleading ...

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Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency

Facebook is willing to take a hit to its wallet to make sure its users don't. Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency in an attempt to prevent scammers from using its advertising platform to dupe its users, the company announced on Tuesday. Facebook's ban applies to all ads that “promote ...

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Bitcoin bust: Facebook and Google are cracking down on cryptocurrency ads

Have you seen an ad on your Facebook feed promoting a new cryptocoin or something related to bitcoin? Well you won't see it any longer. Facebook has implemented a new rule that pretty plainly bans them. Specifically, the rule prohibits ads that “promote financial products and services that are ...

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Facebook Bans Ads Associated With Cryptocurrencies

The policy will be “intentionally broad” while Facebook works to understand which ads are deceptive or misleading, from companies “not currently operating in good faith,” the company said Tuesday in a blog post. For example, ads that say "Use your retirement funds to buy Bitcoin!" won't be allowed.

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Facebook and regulators move to halt cryptocurrency scams

Facebook has banned all advertisements for cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, after it decided too many of them were being used to mislead or deceive potential customers. Its action came the same day as news of US regulatory activity against cryptocurrency issuers, including a move by the Securities ...

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Nauru lifts Facebook ban

The island is celebrating 50 years of independence and Mr Waqa has announced the Facebook ban has been lifted with immediate effect because the government has created a safer nation and a more transparent justice system. This comes as his government moves to end legal appeals to Australia's ...

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Facebook Regulates Ads Amid Bitcoin Boom

Facebook on Tuesday took a proactive step to block ads related to cryptocurrencies, underscoring a broader effort to reshape its image amid previous controversies involving Russian ads and fake news. Although Bitcoin is perhaps the most well-known of all cryptocurrencies, there are thousands of ...

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Facebook Just Banned All Cryptocurrency Advertising

More specifically, the blog post states, Facebook is implementing a new policy that bans advertising having to do with “financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” This policy covers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and unregulated ...

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Facebook to ban cryptocurrency-related ads

“We've created a new policy that prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices, such as binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency,” Facebook's product management director, Rob Leathern, said.

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Facebook Bans All Cryptocurrency Advertising, Including ICOs, Bitcoin And Ethereum

A Facebook Inc. logo sits on display at Station F, a mega-campus for startups located inside a former freight railway depot, in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Facebook will open a startup incubator at Paris's soon-to-debut entrepreneur campus created by billionaire Xavier Niel, as as Chief ...

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Facebook Bans Cryptocurrency, ICO Ads Because Of 'Deceptive Promotional Practices'

Facebook has updated its advertising policy, announcing in a blog post Tuesday, Jan. 30 that it prohibits ads that use “misleading or deceptive promotional practices,” which, according to the social media platform, includes ads of cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The announcement ...

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Advocacy group urges Facebook to pull Messenger for Kids

Facebook started rolling out its messaging app for kids last December, offering a standalone app with parental controls built right in. The app is available on iOS and Android Fire tablets, and allows children under the age of 13 to chat with approved contacts. As you might imagine, however, child ...

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Facebook bans ads for bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies

In the meantime, Facebook is banning cryptocurrency advertising on its social network. The company announced the new policy on Tuesday, which includes barring ads for bitcoin and initial coin offerings, or ICOs. The reason is ads for those things are "frequently associated with misleading or deceptive ...

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Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked

As the FBI's investigation into Russian election interference reaches a fever pitch, Facebook rolled out a new News Feed alert Monday night. The bulletin told users who followed pages created by Russian trolls that those pages have been removed. And some of the affected users did not like this.

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Facebook ban on bitcoin ads latest in very bad day for cryptocurrencies

Facebook announced a ban on advertisements for "binary options, initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency." The blanket decision is part of the social media giant's efforts to prohibit ads for financial products and services "that are frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.".

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Facebook Is Banning All Ads Promoting Cryptocurrencies

Facebook Inc. is banning ads on its social network that promote cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings and binary options, saying they're “frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” The policy will be “intentionally broad” while Facebook works to understand which ads are ...

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How do we measure Facebook's video business? Facebook still hasn't told us.

That's very un-Facebook like. The company usually loves to broadcast its massive engagement numbers — like how many people use Instagram Stories, or how many business have created pages on the network. It's surprising that an effort as major as video wouldn't be documented publicly in the ...

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Facebook bans all cryptocurrency ads

Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting cryptocurrency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies were not acting in "good faith" when extolling the virtues buying into virtual currencies. Recently, a wave of new currencies have ...

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Facebook is banning all ads for bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs

The social network says the ban, which includes both Facebook and Instagram, is to crack down on scams. Cryptocurrencies are "frequently associated with misleading or deceptive practices," it said. Cryptocurrencies are a Wild West of sorts — and Facebook has had enough. The social network is ...

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Facebook Is Banning Advertisements for Bitcoin, ICOs

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled a new policy that bans advertisements involving bitcoin and initial coin offerings, among others. Rob Leathern, the company's product management director, wrote in a Jan. 30 blog post that the new policy targets "ads that promote financial products and ...

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Facebook to ban cryptocurrency-related ads

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday it will ban ads promoting financial products and services tied to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past an electric board showing exchange rates of various cryptocurrencies at Bithumb cryptocurrencies exchange in ...

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The end is nigh. Facebook is making major changes to its news feed that will deprioritize publisher content in favor of “friends and family.” This is a giant move with major repercussions. This could expose publishers to fraud, be good news for some influencer marketers and overall, reshape the way the ...

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How one former Facebook executive thinks the company should fix itself

As a privacy and public policy adviser, Dipayan Ghosh once worked to improve Facebook from the inside. Now a fellow at the New America Foundation, from 2015 to 2017 Ghosh helped to develop Facebook's public positions on issues related to privacy, telecommunications, and ethical algorithms.

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Facebook bans all ads for Bitcoin, ICOs, and other cryptocurrency

Facebook is banning all advertisements for cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin and initial coin offerings, as part of an “intentionally broad” policy against deceptive marketers. Product management director Rob Leathern explained the decision in a blog post, saying Facebook will no longer accept ads that ...

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Facebook bans ads promoting cryptocurrencies

Most of Facebook's recent advertising changes have tried to curb the danger of, you know, a foreign government using the social network to influence elections. But Facebook believes other kinds of harmful ads prey on less-than-savvy users with get-rich-quick promises and trendy buzzwords. So the ...

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Bitcoin tanks as Facebook bans cryptocurrency adverts

Bitcoin's price slumped on Tuesday night as Facebook announced it would ban adverts promoting cryptocurrencies and US authorities launched a probe into a large online exchange. Facebook announced a new policy prohibiting adverts that relate to cryptocurrencies or initial coin offerings (ICOs) from ...

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Family sues Facebook over livestreamed murder of grandfather

In a lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Court on Jan. 19, Debbie Godwin, the daughter of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr., accuses Facebook of negligence, failure to warn and wrongful death. Authorities said Steve Stephens, 37, shot Godwin in April, broadcasting it on Facebook Live, where it was viewed ...

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Facebook to ban cryptocurrency-related ads

Jan 30 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it will ban ads promoting financial products and services tied to cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings. “We've created a new policy that prohibits ads that promote financial products and services that are frequently associated with misleading or ...

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Facebook is banning cryptocurrency and ICO ads

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum, and initial coin offerings have all hit the mainstream, which has promptly resulted in a number of scams. While Facebook says it wants people “to continue to discover and learn” about those products and services, “there are many companies who are ...

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Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies — including bitcoin and ICOs

Facebook is banning all ads that promote cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, in an effort to prevent people from advertising what the company is calling “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” That means no advertiser — even those that ...

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Facebook should shut down Messenger Kids, child advocates say

After it launched with mixed reviews, more than 100 child development experts, health advocacy groups, educators, and parents have called on Facebook to shut down Messenger Kids, a spinoff of the company's messenger app that's specifically designed for children ages six to 12. The collective, led ...

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Family of man whose death was broadcast on Facebook sues social network

The lawsuit, first obtained by News 5 Cleveland, argues that with Facebook's data mining capabilities the company should have identified this post as a credible violent threat and acted on it. “Mr Godwin was forced to speak with Mr Stephens prior to his death, with a gun pointed at his face,” states the suit ...

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Facebook sued by family of man whose killing was posted online

The family of Robert Godwin Sr., a Cleveland man whose killing was shared on Facebook video, has sued the platform for negligence and wrongful death. Fox 8 Cleveland reports that the suit was filed on January 19th, accusing Facebook of conduct that was “intentional, willful, malicious, in bad faith, ...

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Health advocates call on Facebook to scrap Messenger Kids app

Paediatricians and child psychiatrists are urging Facebook to scrap its Messenger Kids app, arguing it could harm children's mental health and development. Groups representing parents, teachers and privacy advocates joined health experts in criticising the app, which Facebook launched in the US late ...

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US Air Force sergeant removed from post after expletive-filled Facebook rant about 'black females'

An Air Force sergeant is under investigation after a profanity-laced Facebook tirade in which she denigrated “black females” who are of lower rank than her. Tech Sgt Geraldine Lovely has been “removed from her supervisory role” after the Facebook post went viral over the weekend, officials at Nellis Air ...

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Facebook expands its fact-checking project to Italy

Facebook announced Tuesday that, starting next week, it will partner with fact-checking outlet Pagella Politica to cut down on the amount of misinformation on the social media platform. The move makes Italy the fifth country where fact-checking organizations are reviewing fake stories through a ...

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting on a Tactical Retreat to Save Facebook

At New York University's “Future of Media” event on Monday night, national media moguls took turns trashing the platform on which they'd come to rely. “It's not so good to be in business . . . with Facebook,” said NBC News Chairman Andy Lack. “They're a fake book . . . they don't value having a ...

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Three Ways To Increase Reach Despite Facebook's Newsfeed Changes

As part of Mark Zuckerberg's 2018 promise to “fix Facebook,” he recently announced drastic changes are on the horizon for the platform's newsfeed algorithm -- changes that will severely cut brand reach. Included in the widespread panic that followed the announcement was an email I received (not from ...

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Keeping it local: Big changes are coming to your Facebook feed

Mark Zuckerberg is continuing to introduce major changes to Facebook as part of his 2018 resolution to remedy some of the deep-rooted issues on the platform. At the beginning of January, the CEO resolved to make sure time users spend on Facebook is not a divisive and unpleasant experience.

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Child experts call on Facebook to pull Messenger Kids app

More than 100 child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to end its Messenger Kids app amid worries over the repercussions of encouraging elementary school children to use social media. In a letter sent Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the groups called on Facebook ...

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Child advocates urge Facebook to end Messenger Kids

More than 100 child advocates, civil society groups, medical experts and other individuals are urging Facebook to discontinue its Messenger app for kids, alleging that the software poses health and development risks to children. Organized by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, nineteen ...

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Child advocates tell Facebook to scrap Messenger Kids

On Tuesday, the group called Facebook "especially irresponsible" for encouraging children as young as preschool age to begin a social-media habit. While Facebook has explained the app is a way to talk to family and friends over long distances, the advocacy group noted such communication doesn't ...

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Experts call on Facebook to pull Messenger Kids app

In a statement issue in response to the letter, Facebook's head of safety, Antigone Davis, said the company had created the app with “an advisory committee of parenting and developmental experts, as well as with families themselves and in partnership with National PTA (parent teacher association)”, ...

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Data Sheet—Mark Zuckerberg's Clueless Plan for Local News on Facebook

This is all relevant today because the Facebook boss said Monday his company would begin to promote local over national news. He said people in his travels across the land “kept telling (him) … how much we all have in common if we can get past some of the most divisive national issues.” We can ...

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Child health advocates call for Facebook to shutter Messenger Kids app

The slings and arrows of outrage keep flying at Facebook. Today a coalition of child health advocates has published an open letter addressing CEO Mark Zuckerberg and calling for the company to shutter Messenger Kids: Aka the Snapchat-ish comms app it launched in the US last December ...

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Facebook's Messenger Kids slammed as 'irresponsible' by child experts who want the chat app ...

But a group of more than 110 child health advocates led by the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood say Facebook should delete Messenger Kids altogether. "We are writing to urge you to discontinue Messenger Kids," the open letter reads, coming just weeks after UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt ...

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Family of man slain in Facebook video sues social network

CLEVELAND — The family of an Ohio man whose shooting death was captured on video and uploaded on Facebook has sued the social media network. The lawsuit, filed on Jan. 19 by Robert Godwin Sr.'s family, alleges that the social media network was negligent and failed to warn authorities of a ...

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Facebook Wants to Fix Itself. Here's a Better Solution.

Chalk it up to a New Year's Resolution or maybe just the ongoing fallout from Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking to do things a little differently this year. At the beginning of January he posted that his goal for 2018 is to “focus on fixing…

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Child Health Experts Urge Facebook to Kill Its New Messenger App for Kids

More than 100 child health advocates, medical experts, and civil society groups are urging Facebook to discontinue Messenger Kids, suggesting that it poses a danger to children and undermines their healthy development. In an open letter led by the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood, the ...

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Facebook 'no place' for young children

More than 100 child health experts are urging Facebook to withdraw an app aimed at under-13s. In an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, they call Messenger Kids an "irresponsible" attempt to encourage young children to use Facebook. Young children are not ready to have social media ...

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Child experts: Just say 'no' to Facebook's kids app

Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids. A group letter sent Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that younger children — the app is intended for those under 13 — aren't ready to have social media accounts, navigate ...

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Facebook Watch may be finding its groove thanks to Tom Brady and Stephen A. Smith

That's good news for Facebook, given how underwhelming many of its early shows have been. The new doc, along with professional productions like ESPN's "First Take" offshoot, could serve to help better define Facebook Watch and bring more viewers and advertisers to the emerging outlet.

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Facebook Is Putting More “Local News” in Your Feed. That's a Lot Harder Than It Sounds.

Of all the ways that Facebook and the internet have disrupted the media, their effects on local journalism have been among the most profound. People used to get much of their news from their local newspaper, broadcast TV affiliates, and news radio programs. Now they get a lot of it from Facebook, ...

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Health experts urge Facebook to pull children's app

Child health experts have asked Mark Zuckerberg to pull Messenger Kids, a version of Facebook designed for children under the age of 13. More than 100 pediatricians, child charities and parent groups signed an open letter in collaboration with Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhoold (CCFC), ...

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Child Experts: Just Say 'No' to Facebook's Kids App

Facebook launched the free Messenger Kids app in December, pitching it as a way for children to chat with family members and parent-approved friends. It doesn't give kids separate Facebook or Messenger accounts. Rather, the app works as an extension of a parent's account, and parents get controls ...

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5 questions Facebook's 'privacy principles' don't answer

"These principles guide our work at Facebook," Erin Egan, the company's chief privacy officer, wrote. But read carefully and these supposed guiding principles do little convey anything about how the company actually makes product decisions. And they certainly don't address some of the substantive ...

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Facebook is into local news now

Today, Facebook announced that it will soon begin prioritizing local news on users' News Feed, a move that stands in stark contrast with the company's January 12 announcement that it would be deprioritizing all news in the News Feed in an attempt to correct its reputation as a easy-to-manipulate fake ...

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Facebook just dumped national news for local news

Our next update on our 2018 focus to make sure Facebook isn't just fun but also good for your well-being and for society... We're making a series of updates to show more high quality, trusted news. Last week we made an update to show more news from sources that are broadly trusted across our ...

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Facebook Made Its Privacy Principles Public for the First Time Ever

Chief privacy officer Erin Egan revealed the social network's privacy principles for the first time ever, and her Newsroom post also detailed ways that Facebook is making its core privacy settings easier for its users to find. Egan wrote in introducing Facebook's privacy principles: “Facebook was built to ...

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Facebook braces for new EU privacy law

Facebook announced a new push over the weekend to better explain its efforts to protect user data by sharing its privacy principles for the first time ahead of the European Union's new data protection law that will take effect in May. The privacy principles, separate from the company's terms and policies, ...

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Facebook to deliver more local news to US users

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said on Monday (Jan 29) it has decided to deliver more local news to US users, in its latest effort to manage the flow of information on the enormously-influential social network. Earlier this month, Facebook announced it will ask its two billion users to rank their trust in news ...

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Facebook to boost local stories as company battles 'fake news' epidemic

Facebook has announced it will promote local news stories as it continues to alter the information it shows to millions of users following accusations the site has increasingly been used as a mouthpiece for spurious news sources. “Starting today, we're going to show more stories from news sources in ...

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Facebook's News Feed will now prioritize local news

Keeping up with what's new in Facebook's News Feed is becoming a full-time job. First, Facebook told us that there would be less news on Facebook. Then it told us it would boost “trustworthy” news sources. And now it's saying it will prioritize news from local outlets. In its latest announcement, the ...

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It's Local News' Turn for a Facebook News Feed Algorithm Boost

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post earlier this month that he asked the social network's “product teams to make sure we prioritize news that is trustworthy, informative and local,” and Facebook revealed Monday that its News Feed algorithm has been tweaked once again to prioritize the former. Head of ...

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Facebook will promote more local news in your News Feed

Facebook's move to prioritize local news follows News Feed changes earlier this month to lessen the amount of divisive content and fake news on the world's largest social network. Facebook now prioritizes posts from friends and high-quality news sources as well, and told publishers it expects the ...

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Facebook nabs Google's AR product director

Facebook has stolen away Google's Director of Product for AR Nikhil Chandhok, who will be joining FB to lead product management of the Camera team working on augmented reality. Chandhok worked on Google's ARCore smartphone augmented reality platform as well as its Daydream VR platform in ...

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Facebook is trading fake news for local news

Facebook will start start pushing more news stories from local sources into your news feed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his favorite social network today. The update is the latest in a series of changes that Facebook is making to ensure that the network is “good for your well-being and for ...

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Facebook to prioritize local news sources in latest feed update

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook will begin focusing on promoting local news sources in people's news feeds, the company's latest change amid criticism that its algorithms prioritized misleading news and misinformation, influencing politics in the US and elsewhere. “Starting today, we're going to ...

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Facebook takes aim at Twitch and YouTube with 'Gaming Creator Pilot Program'

ESL recently signed a deal with Facebook that makes the massive social network its "main broadcast partner" for CS:GO Pro League and ESL One Events. Ahead of the weekend, Facebook took the next step in its process of muscling in on Twitch and 'Tube territory with the launch of the Gaming Creator ...

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Ahead of tougher EU data laws, Facebook is sharing its privacy philosophy

As it prepares for a massive update of privacy laws in the European Union later this year, Facebook announced tools for users to better control how their data is shared with others. The EU plans in May to implement new privacy laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Failure to comply ...

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Facebook will push local stories in news feed

Facebook's news feed has another new focus: local news. The social network on Monday said it'll start to emphasize news stories from local publishers in an area where a person lives. That means if you follow a local news outlet, or if someone shares a story from a news outlet in your area, it might show ...

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Facebook to promote local news in latest update

The company recently adjusted its centerpiece News Feed to prioritize what friends and family share, while reducing the amount of non-advertising content from publishers and brands. The move had worried investors, who feared that the changes would lead people to spend less time on Facebook.

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Facebook borrows Apple's playbook, promises revamped privacy center and details principles

Over the weekend, Facebook announced that it will be bringing a refreshed privacy center to make it easier for users to find and customize settings. The post also goes over some tips for keeping your data safe along with the company's privacy principles which tout accountability and constant ...

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Should Twitter, Facebook get serious about real names?

The documents released last week also showed that Russian operatives publicized more than a hundred fake events to which tens of thousands of Americans RSVP'd on Facebook. Meanwhile, a report over the weekend shed some light on how social media influence can be bought, tens of thousands ...

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Facebook to promote local news in drive for 'trusted' content

Facebook says it is changing the way its news delivery service works by focusing on local news sources in its drive for "high quality" content. "Local news helps us understand the issues that matter in our communities," explained chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on his page on Monday. The update will ...

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Facebook is going to start showing you more local news in your News Feed

Facebook is going to start showing users more local news in their News Feed, the company announced on Monday. The social network has been heavily criticized over its role in the spread of misinformation and hoaxes, and is now making significant changes. "People consistently tell us they want to ...

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Facebook will prioritize local stories in your News Feed

You may start seeing more posts from local publishers popping up in your News Feed. Facebook announced today that it will begin prioritizing local news, bumping it up higher in your feed if you follow a local publisher's Page or if a friend shares a locally-published story. "We are prioritizing local news ...

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Facebook says it will begin putting more local news into the News Feed

Facebook will begin prioritizing the placement of local news in the News Feed, the company said today. The move means that you're more likely to see stories from your local newspaper or television station. While the changes are currently limited to the United States, Facebook plans to introduce them ...

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Facebook says its news feed changes will promote more local news

Facebook said Monday that changes it's making to its algorithm will put more local news into user's feeds. The company had said earlier this month it would also prioritize posts from friends and what it calls "high-quality news sources." Taken together, the changes will mean users will see less overall ...

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Facebook will start prioritizing local news in user feeds

Facebook's latest step in its on-going effort to fix its embattled news delivery offering involves prioritizing local sources. The social media giant announced today in a blog post that, along with efforts to elevate content from friends and outlets designated as “high quality,” the site will be working to push ...

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Facebook explains how it will prioritize local news

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, greets the crowd before delivering his keynote address during the F8 Facebook Developers Conference held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, April 17, 2017. Zuckerberg on Monday said that the social media site will start prioritizing ...

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Facebook says it will push more local news stories into your News Feed

Facebook says it will bring you more local news stories in your news feed, even if you didn't ask to see them. “Starting today, we're going to show more stories from news sources in your local town or city,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in a post announcing the latest change to his company's News Feed.

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How to see more of what you want more often on Facebook

I often disagree with Facebook's algorithms about what makes a top story tops. Last week, I showed you five ways to clean up your Facebook news feed by removing the things you don't want to see. Now, let's take the opposite approach. Here are two ways to see raise the profile of the things you do ...

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PFL signs distribution deal with NBC Sports, Facebook

Following a quiet 2017, the Professional Fighters League is looking to come back in a big way. On Monday, officials announced that the PFL has signed an exclusive multi-platform distribution agreement with NBC Sports Group and Facebook. According to the release, this will allow PFL events to reach ...

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How to delete a Facebook business page

Facebook business pages are a great way to promote your business's services, demonstrate its company culture and gain new customers. Although Facebook has recently taken its focus off businesses and brands, instead opting to concentrate on 'personal connections', you should still at least have a ...

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Facebook reveals its 'privacy principles' and rolls out educational videos to help users control who ...

Facebook is teaching you how to keep your data private with a set of new educational videos. The social media giant has also published its privacy principles for the first time as it prepares for a tough new EU data protection law. The videos show users how to manage the data that Facebook uses to ...

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Facebook Is Changing Their Algorithm—Here's How to Keep Your Favorite Content on Your Feed

Even if you "like" all your favorite artists, follow only the most trustworthy outlets, and cleanse toxic people from your friends list, you're still at the mercy of the programmers when it comes down to what shows up on your Facebook Feed. And if you've finally gotten comfortable with your feed, you may not ...

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Facebook to launch privacy center ahead of EU regulations

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it will launch a new privacy center to help people understand what it does with their data as the giant social network prepares for sweeping new data protection rules in Europe designed to rein in the growing power of major U.S. technology companies. All privacy ...

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Facebook: Deutsche Scrutinizes Shift from Business to Social 'Well Being'

Expect a “solemn tone” from Facebook (FB) management when the company reports earnings on Wednesday, after market close, writes Deutsche Bank's Lloyd Walmsley, as the company rolls toward its self-imposed “year of improvement." Walmsley, who has a Buy rating on the shares, raises his price ...

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NFL Star Von Miller to Host Live Comedy-Variety Show for Facebook Watch

Denver Broncos star Von Miller is heading to Facebook Watch as the host of a live weekly comedy-variety series to originate from his mansion in the Mile-High City. “Von Miller's Studio 58” is described as a mix of comedy bits, celebrity guests and conversations between Miller and his brothers — Vins, ...

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Meet The Woman Building Facebook's eBay-Killer

There's a saying in business school that entrepreneurs should eat their own dog food. Deb Liu takes that principle to the next level. Facebook's vice president of Marketplace sold her washer dryer on the platform last November. The other day, she picked up some cast-iron skillets from a local seller.

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Why Mark Zuckerberg lets Facebook workers do things he disagrees with

"A huge part of how Facebook works is giving a large amount of freedom to our engineers, the company and to people who use the product to make with it what they will," Zuckerberg said on a recent episode of WNYC "Freakonomics Radio" podcast. Zuckerberg reveals he's constantly learning how to ...

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The View From Planet Kerth: Unfriending the Facebook rabbit-hole

In her note, she mentioned that a growing group of former students have been reminiscing on Facebook about a great course I used to teach, and she asked if I wanted to join the conversation. I emailed her back to thank her for the invitation, but there would be a problem with my joining the nostalgia-fest ...

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Why Facebook Is Rolling Out a New Privacy Effort

Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) users are starting to receive notifications in their News Feeds to perform a "privacy checkup" as part of the company's new ... CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to "fix" Facebook in 2018, and the company is taking an aggressive approach to privacy and abuse in the opening ...

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A Word About Our Facebook Page

An organization like ours falls squarely in the latter group by Facebook's definition. And with more than 12,650 of you following us on this platform (thank you!), we'd like to make sure you don't miss any of the research our staff produces because by certain measures, Facebook remains a crucial way ...

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Facebook Announces Series of Updates Aimed at Improving User Privacy

Facebook this week has detailed how it plans to give its users "more control" of their privacy on the mobile and desktop versions of the social network. One of the major new additions is described as a "privacy center" that will provide simple tools to manage privacy and combine all core privacy settings ...

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Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Comcast, AT&T And Verizon Know You Well - OK With ...

If I knew everything about everyone, I'd be able to sell anything to anyone. I could customize and personalize content (and other products and services) of all kinds to my clients. I could demographically and behaviorally segment the world, or at least a couple billion of us, into “made-just-for-you” ...

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Facebook is making a chatbot that can fill awkward silences

There are a lot of things that chatbots have yet to master and high on the list is small talk. But researchers at Facebook think the best way to make software prattle away is to give it a personality. The team crowdsourced their chatbot personas from 11,000 online workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

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What is Facebook advertising and Facebook ads?

With more than two billion people using Facebook, it'll come as no surprise to hear that pretty much all of your customers are using the social network, whether you're a B2B or B2C-focused organisation. But with Facebook's most recent newsfeed update, focusing on personal connections rather than ...

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Facebook unveils simplified privacy settings ahead of GDPR

Facebook has published its privacy principles for the first time in an effort to give users more control over their information. With GDPR just a few short months away, the spotlight is on all organisations that deal with data as the regulation deadline creeps forward. A particular level of scrutiny is being ...

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Grammys 2018: The Most Talked-About Moments on Facebook

Last night's (Jan. 28) 60th Annual Grammy Awards were filled with powerful moments, surprise winners and awe-inspiring performances. From Kendrick Lamar's jaw-dropping opening number to Bruno Mars' sweep of record, song and album of the year, there were plenty of memorable takeaways that ...

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Here's How To Check If Facebook Has Labeled You As A Liberal Or Conservative

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Facebook has already pegged you as a liberal or conservative, even if you've tried to stay neutral or discreet about your political point of views. According to an article by The Verge, aside of collecting info on you to better serve you ads, Facebook has also gathered enough info ...

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Facebook creates 7 privacy principles, education videos ahead of GDPR

Facebook created an adorable blue dinosaur back in 2014 to help educate its users about the social network's privacy settings. But in 2018, the dino is not enough. On Monday, Facebook released its privacy principles — seven sentences that the company says it should be held accountable to — as well ...

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While prepping for new Privacy Center, Facebook shares how data is handled

January 28 is Data Privacy Day, and Facebook wants to make sure users understand how their data is protected on the social platform. Facebook launched a new campaign to better help users understand privacy settings, along with sharing the company's privacy principles for the first time. The privacy ...

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Facebook releases privacy principles

“We know that tech companies need to do better, and that we at Facebook need to do better,” Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a speech in Brussels last week. “We have a lot to improve. We have not done enough to stop the abuse of our technology. We've worked hard to maximize the benefits ...

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Facebook's new privacy centre and principles promise greater control over your data and what you ...

No longer tucked away in a discreet corner of the app, Facebook has launched an all-new set of privacy tools to help you control what people can and can't see on the site. Currently, privacy settings are buried away in a mass of menus and are scattered throughout the social network. The revamped ...

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Facebook drops 'I Usually Sleep With…' question after user backlash brands it 'CREEPY'

Facebook has dropped a question about sexual preferences that previously appeared on profiles on the social network. The California-based social network's "Did You Know" feature – which encourages users to share lesser known or quirky details to flesh-out your page, including most sought-after ...

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Facebook publishes privacy principles for the first time

Facebook's privacy push comes in response to years of criticism over the complexity of its privacy settings, but the timing is also significant. Strict new EU data protection laws, known as GDPR, are coming into force in May this year, meaning that Facebook and every other internet company operating in ...

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Facebook Live Now Offers Tipping

According to report in TechCrunch, Facebook Live users can tip creators a minimum of $3 on the computer desktop version of its site. It's not clear what portion Facebook will pocket of the tips, which it is calling “fan support.” The report noted that there will likely be a revenue share between Facebook and ...

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Facebook opens pilot program to nurture more gaming streamers

Facebook continues its efforts to become a viable platform for content creators with the launch of a pilot program designed to get more streamers using the social network. The program was announced (but not overtly detailed) via Facebook's developer blog, where the company pledges to assist ...

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Facebook opens up about how it handles user data privacy

Facebook has revealed how it handles privacy for its 1.5 billion uses on it social network, shedding light on how much control people have over their data. The company's chief privacy officer Erin Egan posted a detailed breakdown on on Facebook's 'privacy principles' detailing its approach to privacy ...

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Facebook begins privacy push ahead of tough new European law

Facebook will introduce a new privacy center this year that features all core privacy settings in one place, ahead of the introduction of a strict new EU data protection law that takes effect on May 25th. The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will restrict how tech companies ...

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Facebook starts polishing its privacy messaging ahead of GDPR

As the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU's updated privacy framework fast approaches Facebook is continuing to PR the changes it's making to try to meet the new data protection standard — and steer away from the specter of fines that can scale as high as 4% of a company's global turnover.

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Facebook marks Data Privacy Day by sharing its 7 privacy principles

With the European Union's new data protection laws coming into force this year, Facebook has begun preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by publishing its privacy principles for the first time. The company also announced that it will push videos into users' news feeds detailing ...

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Bulgaria to Introduce a New System For Tracking Missing Children Through Facebook

The system is related to the social networking application and enables law enforcement to send a message containing a recent photo and information about the wanted child to all Facebook users within a radius of 200 km from the location of extinction. With more than 2 billion users, this tool is extremely ...

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ESL One's Dota 2 Minor hits high notes despite Facebook fail

It was a rematch fans of the Dota 2 competitive scene had been waiting for. The grand finals of the ESL One Genting 2018, a $400,000 (about £280,000 or AU$495,000) prize pool event held in Malaysia, saw China's Newbee take on Team Liquid over the past weekend. The epic best of five finally ended ...

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Facebook is making privacy settings easier to find ahead of strict new EU law

FACEBOOK HAS LAUNCHED a new educational campaign to help people better understand how to manage their own data. The social media giant has published its privacy principles for the first time and is rolling out educational videos into the News Feed to help users control who has access to their ...

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Teenagers turned off by Facebook as it becomes internet's grey area

Teenagers are turning away from Facebook in favour of visually led alternatives such as Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, new research has found. The number of 15 to 19-year-olds with Facebook accounts fell from 80% last year to 72% in the latest survey by research agency Newcom. Fewer than ...

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Afghan military base attacked; Facebook makes privacy push

Facebook will publish its privacy principles for the first time as it prepares for the introduction of new EU data protection law aimed at empowering users to have control over their own data. The social media company will also roll out videos to show users how to manage the data Facebook uses for ...

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Facebook revamps privacy settings ahead of strict new EU laws

Facebook announced Sunday that it had published its so-called privacy principles for the first time. The announcement from the world's largest social network is widely seen as an attempt to get ready for the introduction of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25. The level of fines ...

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Facebook teaches you how to keep your data private

Facebook isn't the first name you think of for robust user privacy, but it's hoping a new educational campaign will change that. Ahead of the introduction of new EU data protection laws, the big blue social network has revealed its "privacy principles" for the first time. It's also adding videos to the News ...

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Facebook prepares for GDPR by publishing 'privacy principles' for the first time

THE SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has made its privacy principles public for the first time as it prepares for GDPR, which will come into effect on 25 May. Under the GDPR data protection rules, companies such as Facebook will be expected to report data breaches within 72 hours and allow customers to ...

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Facebook reveals its SECRET rules for handling all your private info

Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook, says that the principles "guide our work", and that the company wants to give you "more control of your privacy". "We recognise that people use Facebook to connect, but not everyone wants to share everything with everyone – including with us," the newly ...

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Orlando Magic Daily Facebook Live: Winning the rest of the way

The Orlando Magic suffered another difficult loss and the team is not making any progress in building winning habits. And this should disappoint everyone. The Orlando Magic were likely as bewildered as everyone else at the end of their game Saturday in Indianapolis. Their 21-point lead was gone as ...

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Have your say on this week's hot Facebook topic

This came after an employee complained about the time smokers waste on smoke breaks while non-smokers work. The initiative is known as “Sumokyu” which is a combination of the word “smoke” and a Japanese word for “break”. You said: Morné Geldenhuys, “Well I vape and I'm being treated like a ...

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Facebook invests $1m into journalism scholarships for minorities

Facebook has announced it is investing US$1 million into scholarships for aspiring minority journalists in the US, in a bid to diversify the journalism industry and combat 'fake news'. The scholarship is open to juniors, seniors, or graduate students studying digital media, journalism or communications at ...

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Facebook Launches Gaming Creator Pilot Program To Encourage Gamers To Stream Live

Facebook has announced it is launching a gaming creator pilot program focused on helping gaming content creators build thriving communities, and to monetise their content on its platform. For some time, Facebook has focused on helping creators of all kinds become successful on its platform.

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Users, Facebook is giving you more control over your privacy settings

Starting today, the social media giant will show educational videos in the news feed "that help you get information on important privacy topics like how to control what information Facebook uses to show you ads, how to review and delete old posts, and even what it means to delete your account."

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Facebook post leads to business owners claiming cyber bully attack

The pair said they had reported the messages and the screenshot to Facebook, the police and the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network. Keelback snakes are listed as Least Concern in Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992. A spokesman from the Department of Environment and ...

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Man sends 'explicit' Facebook messages to 12-year-old

She accepted the friend request and Hall started to private message her through their Facebook accounts. The conversation was "normal" until Hall started to use "sexual overtones", the summary said. "The defendant was calculated and precise in which direction he wanted the conversation to go," the ...

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Donald Trump, MeToo, Facebook, And The Breakdown Of Institutional Power

The phantom feeling that something should've happened, but didn't or won't, flows through each of the central stories of the moment: Trump's presidency, the nightmare revelations of sexual abuse, and the accumulating problems of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. What institutional power looks like in ...

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Apple, Facebook, Other Big Tech Companies Reporting Earnings This Week

Apple, Facebook, Other Big Tech Companies Reporting Earnings This Week. Apple, Facebook, Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft and Alibaba headline a big week of quarterly earnings reports.

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WATCH: 2nd Episode of Tom Brady's New Facebook Documentary

The second installment in a six-part documentary series delving into the personal life of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was released on Facebook on Sunday. "Tom vs Time," filmed by Gotham Chopra for Facebook's video platform, Facebook Watch, focuses on the star quarterback ...

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SPORT AT ONE: Watch our weekly Facebook Live video tomorrow, Monday January 29 at 1pm

Irish News Sports reporters will discuss all the action after an action-packed Football and Hurling weekend opened up the 2018 National Leagues. Join them at: https://www.facebook.com/IrishNewsLtd. Facebook your questions to them to join in the discussion. Let's have your comments on any sport.

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If Facebook isn't a media company, why is it offering journalism scholarships?

Mark Zuckerberg has long sworn Facebook is not a media company and has maintained for years it's a “tech company”. This has angered critics who view Facebook akin to the most powerful newspaper on earth and blame the social network for its proliferation of fake news and echo chambers. So why ...

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LIRR riders group takes to Facebook to share their misery

When they're not commiserating in person, they're doing so online as members of the Long Island FAILroad — a Facebook group bonded by what they say is the near-daily torment that comes with commuting on the LIRR. They're not shy about telling LIRR officials what they think, and they are very ...

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How publishers will survive Facebook's newsfeed change

Facebook announced on January 11 that it would change its News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family over public content. Say goodbye to never-ending sponsored posts from Tasty, CNN, and other brands that have embraced the platform. Time to say hello to more personal posts ...

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Facebook group reunites owners and families with lost treasures from Montecito mudslide

MONTECITO, Calif. - A Facebook group is reuniting people with valuables that washed away during the Montecito floods and mudslide. It all started when Erin Doherty of Santa Barbara was helping a friend impacted by the disaster. Doherty was walking by Butterfly Beach and found a silk satchel.

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Facebook, Google, Twitter open up to Congress about Russian misinformation

A Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency used Facebook's tools to promote rallies, protests and other events across the U.S. According to Facebook, 13 of the pages created by the Internet Research Agency attempted to organize 129 events. Some 338,300 unique Facebook accounts ...

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Facebook is coming closer to humanizing its chatbots

Over the past several years, Facebook has devoted a considerable amount of its resources towards developing chatbots. It has made several advancements in this area, but now is focusing its efforts on improving the conversational abilities of its chatbots. Despite the term “chatbots,” these bots aren't ...

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Facebook tries giving chatbots a consistent personality

Dig into the personalities of chat bots and you'll find that they're about as shallow as they were in the days of Eliza or Dr. Sbaitso. They respond with canned phrases and tend to be blithely unaware of what you've said. Facebook wants to fix that. Its research team has tested a new approach that gives ...

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Facebook's News Feed: Add Some Dissonance

Re “Facebook Doesn't Like What It Sees in the Mirror” (Op-Ed, Jan. 17): If Facebook wants to take a more morally enlightened, responsible approach to social engagement, as Noam Cohen suggests is desirable, it can start by revising its algorithm. Facebook's recent overhaul of its News Feed that ...

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Town of Smithsburg launches first Facebook page

SMITHSBURG — The town of Smithsburg has launched its first ever Facebook page. ... Smith said she will also take requests from town council members who want to post information or news on the town's Facebook page. ... Smith said the site is modeled after the town of Boonsboro's Facebook page.

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Facebook algorithm hopes to create more meaningful interactions

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In the never-ending stream of information that is Facebook, sometimes what you read is misleading, especially in today's political climate. That's where Politifact and its fact-checkers come into play. The independent publication has been partnered with Facebook for a little over a ...

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Nahid: Nobody said we'd close Facebook

The education minister has told parliament that his ministry does not plan to shut down social media platform Facebook to prevent question paper leaks. The ministry has no power to shut down Facebook, but it will talk to the telecom regulatory body to see if they can restrict the website temporarily, Nurul ...

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Kate Hawkesby: There's nothing 'social' about Facebook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted that social media can sometimes harm democracy. He also announced changes to the Facebook algorithm in a bid to reduce the flood of biased news content created by businesses and media outlets. It was an attempt to return to what Facebook ...

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'You're a half-breed': Facebook translation of Métis shameful, says MMF

The Manitoba Metis Federation says Facebook's translation of the word Métis into English as "half-breed" is shameful, derogatory and unacceptable. "It was intended as a racial slur — dehumanizing language. It's from an era of intolerance," said Allan Benoit, chief of staff for the Manitoba Metis ...

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Appeals Court confirms 'Yediot' journalist defamed PM in Facebook post

The Tel Aviv District Court upheld the fining of journalist Yigal Sarna for NIS 115,000 on Sunday for asserting on Facebook that Prime Minister ... Sarna's March 2015 Facebook post said that Sara Netanyahu kicked her husband out of his car during a fight, forcing the couple's caravan of cars to pull over ...

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Facebook Reveals Its Privacy Principles For The First Time

These moves–timed to Data Privacy Day–come amid a broader period of public and regulatory scrutiny of the influence Facebook has in our lives, and how it's been leveraged by malicious organizations to attack democratic institutions and trust in fundamental institutions. In recent weeks, the company ...

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How Amazon's Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook

It's easy to see how Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.75% threatens the world's retailers. But analysts, brands and advertising agencies are waking up to the fact that a growing piece of Amazon's business impinges on turf now controlled by two other tech titans, Google and Facebook . Amazon's decade-old ...

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No plan to bar Facebook during exams: Nahid

The government has not decided yet to bar Facebook during public examinations, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told the parliament this evening. “We have not taken any decision to block Facebook during examination. Besides we do not have the authority to stop Facebook operation,” he said in ...

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35000 smart phones in Vietnam infected with Facebook password-stealing virus

HANOI, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Over 35,000 smart phones in Vietnam have recently been infected by GhostTeam virus which is designed to steal passwords of Facebook accounts. GhostTeam virus has been spread via popular Vietnamese applications on Google Play, according to Vietnam's leading ...

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Atlanta gay bar owner causes outrage with Facebook posts

Palmer Marsh, who has owned the gay bar for decades, has been busted using a racial slur about former President Barack Obama. A screenshot of the post has gone viral. The message has since been deleted from his Facebook profile. There are other controversial posts that are still able to be seen.

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Chiefs back Rupert Murdoch over Facebook paying fees

Facebook and Google have presided over a titanic shift in ad dollars and editorial control from traditional media companies to their platforms, and without accepting traditional publisher responsibilities. Asked whether Mr Murdoch's proposal would improve the balance of the digital publisher ecosystem, ...

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McGovern: Conviction over threatening Facebook post upheld

“The fact that the threat came through Facebook, from which the victim blocked the defendant's posts, does not alter this analysis,” a three-judge panel wrote. “The jury could reasonably infer that, after ten years of dating, the victim and defendant would have accumulated mutual Facebook friends.”.

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Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 500000 Times at End of 2016 Campaign, Created Fake Facebook ...

Russian bots retweeted Donald Trump nearly half a million times in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, and more than 60,000 Americans RSVP'd for Facebook events created by Kremlin-linked trolls, the social media giants revealed in congressional documents this month. In written statements to two ...

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How to Use Facebook's Workplace for Small Business

Facebook's Workplace has been on the market for a little over a year and has seen rapid adoption by organizations of all sizes around the world. According to Facebook, more than 14,000 companies use Workplace as their internal team collaboration tool. Given people's familiarity with the social media ...

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Facebook Donates 1 Million Dollars in Journalism Scholarships

Back in January 2017, Facebook has launched the Facebook Journalism Project to promote news literacy and fight the spread of “fake news.” Now Facebook Donates 1 Million Dollars in Journalism Scholarships. The students pursuing careers in journalism will get these scholarships.

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Facebook Unfriended the News Media

Hope you like your friends' cat photos. You'll probably be seeing more of them on Facebook, and fewer posts from news organizations like this one. Facebook's recent announcement that it is changing the algorithm driving its news feed to prioritize posts from friends and family has news organizations ...

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Facebook is trying to teach chatbots how to chit-chat

Despite the death of its personal AI assistant M, Facebook hasn't given up on chatbots just yet. Over the past couple of years, it's slowly improved what its artificial agents can do, but their latest challenge is something that can confound even the smartest human: making small talk. You'd be forgiven for ...

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All not well in Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook land

Even by its own remarkable standards of newsworthiness, Facebook has been making headlines this month. It seems impossible at the moment to open a newspaper or browse online without encountering a picture of Mark Zuckerberg sporting that same slightly uncomfortable, tense look on his face that ...

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'Held to ransom': Publishers on uncertain ground in new Facebook era

Lured by the promise of connecting with Facebook's 2 billion global users, media companies leveraging social media for traffic and engagement have been left on shaky ground, unsure how the platform's latest changes will affect their revenues and survival. Industry sources say some brands and ...

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Time is a human invention that controls how we work

Not content with being a half-a-trillion-dollar company with 2 billion users worldwide, Facebook casually announced this week it had invented a new unit of time. The “flick,” at 1/705,600,000th of a second, is longer than a nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000th of a second), and is designed to measure the time ...

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Scott Baio uses Facebook Live to address claims he molested star Nicole Eggert as a child

SCOTT Baio has taken to Facebook Live to address allegations made by actress Nicole Eggert that he molested her when she was his co-star, which has sparking a heated online war. Laura Italiano, The New York Post. News Corp Australia NetworkJanuary 28, 20189:15pm. Video; Image ...

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