What to Expect From Facebook's Big Show

This year, Facebook's annual event for developers comes on the heels of Zuckerberg's two-day Congressional testimony, in which he answered a series of questions about Facebook's data-sharing policies. The questions weren't just about privacy: They were about what some perceive to be the social ...

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What 'Westworld' and Facebook Have in Common

For all of Westworld's trippy storytelling techniques, circular character arcs, and secret robot reveals, the show has—up until Sunday night's episode—been relatively straightforward about the Delos business model. The company provides something that the world's 1 percent can't get in the Swiss Alps or ...

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Facebook adds Reddit-style downvote buttons to foster “better” comments

Facebook is expanding the rollout of its experimental Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons. The social network started testing the features in February, and appears to be making them available for more and more users. People say they have just become available in Australia and New Zealand.

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Facebook is testing out a distinctly Reddit-like feature

Like...or dislike? The possibility of Facebook adding downvoting — the opposite of "liking" — for posts and comments on its network has tickled the fancy of many users. It could be great for getting rid of those pesky fake news posts, but it could also be used for trolling and it could turn Facebook into ...

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Facebook's Reddit-Like Downvote Button Rolls Out To More Users

Earlier this year, Facebook confirmed that it would be testing upvote and downvote buttons on public posts, with an aim to improve the quality of comments on the platform. It appears that the new feature is being rolled out to a larger number of users close to home. While there has been no mention of ...

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Spot fake news in your Facebook News Feed with this easy trick

Facebook previously tried to warn users about fake news by putting red flags next to the stories. But the move backfired, and led to false stories being shared even more than they would have otherwise been. "We learned that dispelling misinformation is challenging," Facebook product designer Jeff ...

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Facebook's annual conference is big test for Mark Zuckerberg

The Facebook CEO will try to strike a balance between tackling the hard questions bombarding his company and reassuring the hordes of hoodie-sporting app developers that the fallout from Cambridge Analytica won't wreck the businesses they've built there. And he's seizing an occasion, which for ...

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Watch out for this dangerous Facebook and Instagram scam – or risk losing money

FACEBOOK fraudsters are using fake Mark Zuckerberg accounts to scam users into forking over thousands of pounds. The social media swindle finds con artists contacting victims via Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, using profiles masquerading as Zuckerberg and Facebook exec Sheryl ...

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Why you'll never quit Facebook

Fast-forward to 2018 and Facebook is in the middle of its biggest ever crisis. Last month it was revealed that up to 87 million users' data was improperly shared with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, potentially affecting the outcomes of both the UK's Brexit referendum and the 2016 US ...

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Facebook facial recognition could unlock clues in search for missing persons

He is now one of the 10 missing person profiles featured in a world-first campaign which will use Facebook's powerful new facial recognition technology to find people. Launched by the Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN), the Invisible Friends campaign calls for Facebook users around the ...

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Facebook Starts Rolling Out 'Downvote' Button to More Users

Facebook has begun rolling out a feature called "downvote" that lets users register a negative reaction to comments on the social networking platform but it is ... As part of its new strategy to combat fake news, Facebook wants its users to miss these stories at the time of scrolling their News Feed, while not ...

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Facebook posts $10m loss on ATO bill; Google Aussie sales top $3bn

Facebook's Australian business burned through $10 million in 2017 after settling unpaid back taxes with the Australian Taxation Office. Facebook's accounts for its local business were filed yesterday as were Google's which confirmed its total business in Australia surpassed $3 billion for the first time last ...

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Not just Facebook, even Twitter sold data to Cambridge Analytica

LONDON: After the Facebook data scandal, it has now come to notice that Twitter had also sold users' data to a Cambridge Analytica researcher who ... The quiz app "thisisyourdigitallife" developed by Kogan and his firm, collected data from millions of Facebook users without their consent in 2014-2015.

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Facebook Starts Shrinking Fake News Links to Reduce Visual Prominence

After Facebook's red warning labels to flag fake news backfired (resulting in more people sharing them), the social networking giant is now literally sizing down fake news stories to combat their spread. As part of its new strategy to combat fake news, Facebook wants its users to miss these stories at the ...

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Facebook Australia cops AU$31m income tax adjustment from ATO

After signing a settlement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in October, Facebook Australia has been hit with a AU$31.3 million tax adjustment reaching back to the company's 2009 financial year. Disclosed in its earnings filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), ...

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Aust bid uses Facebook to find missing

The campaign, developed by whiteGREY Australia, launched on Monday asks global users to befriend profiles of missing persons in the hope that the social network's facial recognition software identifies them. Should there be a match, Facebook's recognition algorithm - which claims to run at a 98 per ...

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Facebook begins the rollout of its Reddit-like downvote button

In an effort to clean up its act, Facebook took a leaf out of Reddit's book and began testing upvote and downvote buttons for comments. While the trial was carried out in the US, Facebook is now rolling out the new tool to more users. Going by tweets posted since the start of its rollout over the weekend, ...

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Facebook privacy drive seen crimping political campaigns

Washington. FACEBOOK'S new focus on protecting private user data is likely to change the game for many campaigns, making it harder to deliver highly targeted, personal political messages. The changes unveiled by the huge social network following an outcry over the hijacking of data on 87 million ...

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Facebook holds events to help local businesses

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Facebook is getting ready to help New Mexico small businesses this week. The social media giant is traveling to 30 cities across the nation, including Albuquerque. They are training on coding, building websites and using Facebook to bolster business. Starting tomorrow ...

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Crooks handing themselves in after seeing mugshots on Facebook

Wanted criminals are handing themselves in after finding their mugshots on Facebook, according to Victoria Police. The final Police Eyewatch Facebook page, CBD, will be rolled out today, having been deemed a successful crime solving initiative across the state. As reported in the Herald Sun, police ...

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The Facebook scam you need to avoid

Scammers have been targeting people on the social network and scamming them out of their cash. They have been posing as CEO Mark Zuckerberg and duping users through a 'Facebook lottery', telling them they have won a big cash prize. Social media presenter Aziz Al-Sa'afin spoke to Duncan ...

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Jeremy Corbyn's Facebook page hosts dozens of vile anti-Semitic comments from leftie activists

JEREMY Corbyn's Facebook page is polluted with vile anti-Jewish slurs from his supporters, it emerged today. Labour vowed to investigate the horrific ... One Facebook user wrote: "What this is really is a Jewish supremacist takeover of the Labour party. Anti-Semitism is a Jewish hoax." Another said: ...

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Why Facebook is afraid of making users pay for social media

Investors pondering the fate of Facebook's business model should look back at the newspaper industry, circa 2000. Newspaper advertising revenue peaked in the United States that year at US$67-billion. And it's been downhill ever since. Industry ad revenue has since shrunk to less than US$20-billion, ...

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Facebook hugging wars?

Waving, giving high-fives and hugging are seemingly the new-age pokes on Facebook. Are people participating in waving and hugging Facebook wars? Such cordial gestures simply don't have the same antagonistic ring as a poke war. Are pokes still a thing? They always seemed to me a bit like a dry ...

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Google has avoided the Facebook row - but it is far from problem free

In the last month, executives from Facebook have been hauled in front of politicians in various places around the world, from Washington to Westminster and Singapore following the Cambridge Analytica revelations. Twitter was dragged into the fray this weekend when it emerged that it had sold ...

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Facebook device to let users 'feel messages through skin'

Facebook researchers are developing a device to allow users to feel messages through their skin. The sleeve-like prototype translates words into vibrations delivered by pads onto the arm. [Read more: How to remove third party apps on Facebook – all at once]. A paper published by Facebook points out ...

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Facebook warns investors to expect bigger and worse scandals than Cambridge Analytica

If Cambridge Analytica was made up of supervillain supergeniuses who were uniquely capable of finding flaws in Facebook's security model, that would be the end of things. But in reality, Facebook is designed to allow its partners to violate its users' privacy, so the fact that Cambridge Analytica got ...

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Facebook should pay its users!

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | People should be paid whenever their personal data is used by tech giants to make money; that is the proposal of Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK. He said data was the 'new oil' and the 'growth industry of this century', but it ...

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Facebook removes Polish nationalist pages for anti-Semitic content

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Representatives of Polish nationalists asked the country's prime minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene after Facebook removed their pages for anti-Semitic content. Facebook said late last week in a statement on community standards that it “prohibits on its ...

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Facebook bombarding users with notifications to desperately lure them back to the platform

The social media giant and its founder Mark Zuckerberg have been in damage control following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, where the information of 87 million Facebook users, including more than 300,000 Australians, was harvested and potentially used to influence the 2016 US election.

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Facebook working on sleeve device to deliver messages through skin vibrations

Facebook researchers are developing a device to allow users to 'feel' messages through their skin. The sleeve-like prototype translates words into vibrations delivered by pads onto the arm. A paper on the project published by Facebook says: “it can be devastating to miss important call, text, ...

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Facebook removes Polish nationalist pages over anti-Semitism

JTA - Representatives of Polish nationalists asked the country's prime minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene after Facebook removed their pages for anti-Semitic content. Facebook said late last week in a statement on community standards that it “prohibits on its platform” the presence of ...

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Facebook Brushes Aside Data Scandal With Monstrous Results

With the specter of News Feed changes and revelations that user information had been misused by an outside company, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) investors were justifiably concerned going into the company's financial report. The stock had fallen 10% during the quarter, and doubts remained about ...

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Facebook working on device that sends messages through the skin

Facebook is working on a technique that allows people to feel smartphone messages through their skin when they are unable to access their device. The social network's team of in-house scientists have are working on a sleeve-like prototype, which translates words into vibrations delivered by pads onto ...

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Wall Street's worried as new rules loom for tech giants like Facebook

As Australia reels over revelations of rampant misconduct in its financial services sector, America is coming to grips with the scary dominance of its tech giants. After a troubling few months, particularly for Facebook, it seems a matter of if, not when, the iconic tech companies that increasingly dominate the ...

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The facial recognition technology on Facebook being used to find missing people

But powerful new facial-recognition technology used by Facebook has families hopeful that their lost loved ones can be found in photos posted on social media. All that's needed to join the hunt for clues is the click of a button. The tool is central to a new campaign being launched by the Missing Persons ...

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Facebook 'planning new device that sends messages to you SKIN to help you read them in ...

FACEBOOK has developed a device that sends messages to your skin so that users can stay connected even when their smartphones, tablets or laptops are out of reach. Social media addicts unable to check their devices in "a meeting, movie or church service" can now "feel" messages through their ...

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New privacy drive may limit 'microtargeting' on Facebook

WASHINGTON: Facebook's new focus on protecting private user data is likely to change the game for many campaigns, making it harder to deliver highly targeted, personal political messages. The changes unveiled by the huge social network following an outcry over the hijacking of data on 87 million ...

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Facebook device to let users `feel messages through skin´

Facebook researchers are developing a device to allow users to feel messages through their skin. The sleeve-like prototype translates words into vibrations delivered by pads onto the arm. A paper published by Facebook points out “it can be devastating to miss important call, text, or notification from a ...

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Facebook Reduces Dubious Stories To Fight Fake News

San Francisco: After Facebook's red warning labels to flag fake news backfired, the social networking giant is now literally sizing down the doubtful stories to ... As part of its new strategy to combat fake news, Facebook wants its users to miss these stories at the time of scrolling their News Feed, while not ...

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Facebook, lies and the future of journalism

USA TODAY journalist Nathan Bomey, who wrote the critically acclaimed "Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back" when he was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, tackles a much broader subject in his new book "After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump. which ...

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Facebook 'planning new device that sends messages to you SKIN to help you read them in ...

FACEBOOK has developed a device that sends messages to your skin allowing users so that users can stay connected even when their smartphones, tablets or laptops are out of reach. Social media addicts unable to check their devices in “a meeting, movie or church service” can now “feel” messages ...

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As controversy swirls, Facebook dials down the swagger on its developer conference

Type with your brain. “Hear” with your skin. And in the event of an emergency, here's a helicopter to the rescue with some free internet access. The marquee announcements of last year's F8 developer conference found Facebook at the peak of its ambition, as Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives ...

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Facebook's F8 gives Zuckerberg another chance to move beyond Cambridge Analytica

The world's largest social network still has to prove it knows how to fix the mess it created, no matter how much Zuck and Facebook want to hype their newest efforts to "make the world more open and connected" (as the company's motto used to say) and no matter how much all those F8 attendees in ...

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Should Investors Worry About the Facebook Scandal? – Guest editorial

Leverate's Amram Margalit takes the view that any stockholder should analyze the situation and decide whether he still trusts Facebook and other data-storing giants. This trust – from users, advertisers and investors – would eventually be the key factor which will decide the value of Facebook in the ...

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Klerksdorp Facebook user faces crimen injuria charges after racist rant

JOHANNESBURG – Police in Klerksdorp have confirmed that a case of crimen injuria has been opened against a Facebook user's account. North West resident Lumka Nandipha Rapoo says she came across a racist rant on the Facebook page of the Klerksdorp News while checking for updates about ...

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UK Financial Guru Sues Facebook over Fraud Crypto Ads

UK television personality, Martin Lewis is suing Facebook for defamation, stating the social media giant has failed to stop fake adverts that use his face and name. Some of these fake ads have been pushing cryptocurrency scams. The man who founded the UK's biggest consumer website, ...

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Taking tech too far: Facebook wants to make your skin crawl, literally

'Users can receive meaningful messages on their arms by feeling the vibrotactile stimuli, instead of inconveniently taking out and looking at their smart devices.' Facebook has published five papers by separate developers on the topic in recent months, suggesting it is serious about a commercial product ...

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Facebook's Censorship in Germany

A court in Berlin has issued a temporary restraining order against Facebook. Under the threat of a fine of 250,000 euros (roughly $300,000 USD) or a jail term, Facebook was obliged to restore a user's comment that it had deleted. Moreover, the ruling prohibited the company from banning the user ...

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Young Aussies happy to share data for incentives

The recent scandal which saw millions of Facebook users allegedly have their data misused has prompted a trend of people looking to take power over their information, by selling it for money or rewards, via completing surveys and taking part in focus groups. PREPARATION: Why man-proofing your ...

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Another Facebook photo fail

But Facebook has also faced criticism for the ways in which it has filtered the news in the past. Back in September 2016, it censored a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the Vietnam war. A Norwegian writer posted Nick Ut's famous picture of severely burned nine year-old Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc ...

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Facebook is dropping key advertising tools — here's how you adapt

If you listen to headlines about Facebook recently you may be wondering if it's still a good place to run ads for your business. The Facebook privacy scandal that brought a ton negative press over the last month (and justly so), has already forced Facebook to change the way they handle and collect ...

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Facebook's New Plan Is to Literally Shrink the Size of Fake News Posts

Facebook keeps trying out new strategies to solve its fake news problem. In late 2017, Facebook admitted that its method of showing a "disputed" warning next to factually incorrect articles had backfired and actually increased the spread of fake news while "entrenching deeply held beliefs." Now, they're ...

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Lol now Facebook is just making fake news smaller

Facebook really wishes its problems would just disappear. But, since that's clearly not going to happen, maybe they could, I don't know, get smaller? That appears to be the thinking of Mark Zuckerberg and Co., who on Friday announced that the company's new plan to combat fake news essentially boils ...

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Consumers aren't deleting Facebook in wake of data scandal

No doubt you've seen numerous headlines recently from news organizations outlining how to delete your Facebook account. Reportedly, around 10 percent of people have done so. So Facebook must be reeling, right? Not quite. Facebook's daily active users rose in the first quarter after a dip in late ...

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Hey kids, Amazon, YouTube & Facebook have a product for you

Amazon, YouTube and Facebook had a message for parents this week. We hear your complaints. And we'll address (some of them.) Kids want to watch hours of YouTube, but many parents feel conflicted about non-kid friendly videos showing up in their feeds. They also have an issue with the Amazon ...

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No, Elon Musk didn't offer to buy and delete Facebook

As a meme, it surfed cleverly on some things that were already known: Musk is a very wealthy entrepreneur (though even for the richest mogul, Facebook's US$479 billion value might be a stretch — it's 23 times Musk's US$20 billion fortune), he's known to be impulsive and dramatic, and, as we saw, ...

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Facebook shrinks fake news links in hopes you'll miss them

Facebook has tried numerous methods in a bid to fight fake news. Not all of them are successful, though, and it's now clear that they can even backfire. Its decision to flag false stories led to more sharing as those determined to believe the claims were incensed. The social network has a new strategy, ...

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Tech Stocks This Week: Facebook and Amazon Post Stellar Results and Docusign Soars

Earnings season was front-and-center this week, with two major tech companies seeing their stocks make big moves after their earnings reports. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) have risen about 9% and 3.4% since they reported their latest quarterly results this week, respectively ...

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Facebook's new commercial becomes an anti-Facebook PSA when you add a choir covering “Creep”

We're not sure if you're aware, but Facebook is in hot water. In an apparent attempt to reverse the tide of bad vibes, the social networking giant recently put out a new commercial for themselves trying to convince people of how much we all need them, because they are a company and that is what ...

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Facebook Hints Another Cambridge Analytica-Like Data Breach

In what could be yet another massive Facebook data breach, like that of Cambridge Analytica (CA), more “instances of misuse of user data or other undesirable activity by third parties” is expected, Facebook said in its quarterly report shared with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on ...

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Her name is my name, too: Facebook group descends on Celina for unique meetup

After a few months of emails and Facebook messages, the plan came together to get the group in one place. The Marilees first gathered in person April 19 at the Comfort Suites in Frisco where they shared their stories of being Marilees and fellowshipped in a full weekend of activities, including a visit to ...

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Facebook Is Shrinking Fake News Stories Because Nothing Else Has Worked

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes. It probably won't work because people are just the worst. Facebook unveiled ...

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Can Instagram keep its nose clean?

Instagram, the photo-sharing platform Facebook acquired in 2012 for $715m, has not yet come up in the debate over Facebook's cavalier attitude to user ... According to consumer data firm Statista, this year Instagram is expected to make up almost 28% of Facebook's net mobile advertising revenue.

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Facebook outlines plans for combating false news

During the Fighting Abuse @Scale conference, Facebook and other tech companies discussed their plans for combatting fake news and misinformation online. CNET reports that the social media giant isn't interested in playing the role of a full-time fact checker, but does want to fight the spread of ...

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Facebook's dark ads problem is systemic

Facebook's admission to the UK parliament this week that it had unearthed unquantified thousands of dark fake ads after investigating fakes bearing the face and name of well-known consumer advice personality, Martin Lewis, underscores the massive challenge for its platform on this front. Lewis is ...

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5 companies with employee perks that rival Google's

When it comes to employee perks, Google has long been seen as the crème de la crème. However, more companies have upped their benefits game in an effort to attract top talent. Millennials entering the workforce today are lured with perks that were unheard of years ago, including pet insurance and ...

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What we did – and didn't – learn from Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer's appearance in parliament

Facebook's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, faced more than four hours of questioning on Thursday during his appearance before parliament's digital, culture, media and sport select committee. Led by the Conservative backbencher Damian Collins, the committee's members may lack the ...

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Navigating a cryptic post and dark corners of the internet after Toronto's van attack

In the immediate aftermath of Monday's van attack, the image of a Facebook post began to make the rounds. From odd language to a tricky time-stamp, the post raised a number of questions for journalists. But paramount: Was it real?

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Where Do We Go After Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearings And Q1 Earnings Call?

If you had read CEO Mark Zuckerberg's letter in Facebook's 2012 IPO Proxy, you could have anticipated him facing outraged legislators at a future date. I read Facebook's IPO letter back in 2012 when I wrote Investing Between the Lines and used my candor analytics system to uncover the company's ...

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She pointed the way to a better Facebook... in 1988

Earlier this month, Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg were flogged in public, so it seemed an appropriate time to ruminate on Echo and social media's past — and what it might look like in the future. “Early online communities always struggled with self-governance, but they were also constantly ...

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Facebook to eliminate fundraisers fee for personal causes

“We're eliminating the platform fee on all fundraisers for personal causes, so that people can maximise their fundraising support,” Asha Sharma, Facebook's Head of Product for Social Good, said in a statement on Friday. That means the social network is getting rid of the 4.3% platform fee in the US and ...

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Crisis? What crisis? The numbers tell a different Facebook story

While Facebook isn't as invincible as it seemed a month ago in terms of its image, the numbers are looking good for the company. Also, one needs to remember that the Cambridge Analytica scandal that blew up came to light in March, while the results are from January-March. Still, it's clear that the ...

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Where did the class Facebook groups go?

Columbia College Class Facebook groups used by students to voice opinions, advertise work and seek assistance recently vanished from the social media platform without explanation, leading many to wonder what caused their removal. The Facebook group for Columbia College Chicago Class of ...

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Facebook's biggest product event of the year kicks off Tuesday — here's everything we're ...

Get ready for feedfull of updates and announcements from Facebook. The social network' annual developers' conference, F8, kicks off on Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. There's likely to be lots of talk about VR, AR, video games, and of course, data security--an issue that Facebook is still tangled up in after ...

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Facebook adds features to donation tool and eliminates fee for personal causes

Facebook has announced several changes and improvements to its Fundraisers tool, probably the most welcome change is that Facebook is eliminating the platform fee for all fundraisers for personal causes, which will mean they'll be able to keep more of the money they've managed to raise instead of ...

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Is Facebook to start charging YOU? Firm considered making you pay for access

However, the amount of data Facebook gathers on its users to target its on-screen adverts has been subject to a huge amount of scrutiny in recent months. The company has found itself at the centre of a scandal after it was discovered that data from some 87 million users' personal data was scraped and ...

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Facebook Launches Third-Party Fact-Checking Partnership with The Journal.ie as Part of ...

Facebook has launched third-party fact-checking program in Ireland through a new partnership with The Journal.ie. A certified partner through the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network, The Journal.ie will review news stories, check their facts and rate their accuracy, with stories rated as false ...

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Facebook introduces 'Sleep Mode' for parents in Messenger Kids

In an effort to give more control to parents, Facebook has launched a Sleep Mode in its Messenger Kids that will allow parents to set predetermined "off times" for the app on a child's device. When the app is in Sleep Mode, kids cannot send or receive messages or video calls, play with the creative ...

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I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn't

When I was in college, my high school best friend and I had a terrible falling-out. It was entirely because of Facebook. “I think Allison got engaged?” our mutual friend Kaitlin texted me one day. “I think I saw it on Facebook?” I denied that it could possibly be true. Surely Allison would have told me if she ...

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What Facebook's facial recognition feature means for you

Facebook is planning to reintroduce its facial recognition feature in Europe and Canada. That means Facebook could soon be automatically tagging you in photos and videos, rather than a friend tagging you first. Europe is only now getting the function after it was turned off in 2012 due to regulatory ...

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BRIEF-Facebook Says Eliminating Platform Fee On All Fundraisers

April 27 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc: * FACEBOOK INTRODUCES NEW TOOLS TO MAKE FUNDRAISERS EVEN MORE IMPACTFUL. * FACEBOOK INC - IN COMING WEEKS, FACEBOOK IS ELIMINATING PLATFORM FEE ON ALL FUNDRAISERS Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:.

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Parents can now limit their kids' access to the Facebook Messenger Kids app

Facebook wants to make it easier for parents to ensure their kids aren't spending all day, every day on their phones. In that spirit, the company has launched a new feature in the Messenger Kids app that allows parents to set times when their kids aren't allowed to use the app. The new feature is called ...

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Facebook Is Back

Facebook shares are in the process of a healthy recovery after the losses caused by the Cambridge Analytica scandal: more than half of those losses have been recouped thanks to record profits and the signs indicate we over time the events of recent weeks will be seen as a blip. Why haven't ...

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This millionaire is suing Facebook over fraud adverts — and he's shocked by the firm's 'deliberately ...

A millionaire British consumer rights champion announced this week that he is suing Facebook over fraudulent adverts — and he has been shocked with how the company has responded to the legal action. Martin Lewis said scammers are using his reputation to ensnare people into bitcoin ...

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Facebook admits it didn't read the terms and conditions for the app behind Cambridge Analytica

Facebook told British lawmakers on Thursday that it never read the terms and conditions for an app that ultimately allowed Cambridge Analytica to access 87 million users' names, "likes" and other personal information. The admission from Mike Schroepfer, the chief technology officer for the social media ...

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After Parliamentary Testimony, Is Facebook Or The Ad Industry Capable of Self-Regulation?

Facebook's CTO, Mike Schroepfer, faced five hours of intense and technically savvy grilling by members of a parliamentary committee on Thursday. The takeaway: UK regulators don't trust Facebook. To put it more pointedly in the words of British conservative MP Julian Knight: Facebook is a ...

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Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal puts Indonesia's tech firms on the spot

During the grilling of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg by a joint congressional committee in the United States this month, one line of questioning stood out. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham asked the 33-year-old billionaire whether the social media giant he created had an actual ...

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How Facebook's fake news cure made the Alfie Evans story go viral

Every day, Worrall, and more than 600,000 people like her, spend their days glued to Alfie's Army, a Facebook group set up in support of Alfie Evans, a terminally ill 23-month old toddler at the centre of a hellish ethical battle playing out in the courts and on newspaper front pages. But it was online that ...

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Trying to understand Facebook's Community Standards? Here's the gist

After a year in which Facebook faced ample scrutiny for its handling of various controversies (culminating in founder Mark Zuckerberg giving a testimony to Congress), the company has publicly revealed its standards for moderating content. Although Facebook always had some publicly visible standards ...

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Facebook just added an important parental control feature to its controversial kids app

Facebook Messenger Kids is getting "sleep mode," which lets parents choose which times their children can use the app. Messenger Kids has been met with backlash since it was introduced last year, with heath experts calling on the social media giant to shut the app down completely.

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Parents Get More Control Over Facebook's Messenger Kids With New Sleep Mode

Facebook's recently introduced Messenger Kids app is getting an upgrade that lets parents set “off times” that blocks their children from using the service. The new Sleep Mode, which debuted on Friday, also lets parents set different times for the app to shut off depending on the day of the week. During ...

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Facebook Warns Users Of Another Possible Data Breach

Facebook warned users and investors it may have found evidence of another data breach that affects 87 million people #tictocnews (Source: Bloomberg). Terms of Service Trademarks Privacy Policy ©2018 Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved. Careers Made in NYC Advertise Ad Choices Website ...

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Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire

Tell someone not to do something and sometimes they just want to do it more. That's what happened when Facebook put red flags on debunked fake news. Users who wanted to believe the false stories had their fevers ignited and they actually shared the hoaxes more. That led Facebook to ditch the ...

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Facebook confesses: Buckle up, there's plenty more privacy lapses where that came from

Facebook has confirmed what many of us have known for years: Cambridge Analytica was far from the only organization engaging in the wholesale hoarding of netizens' personal data via the social network. The Silicon Valley giant told America's financial watchdog, the SEC, on Thursday that it will ...

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Commentary: How Can Facebook Avoid More Trouble Ahead? Implement User Warnings.

Facebook (FB) investors and staff probably let out a collective sigh of relief on Thursday, after the social media giant reported stronger-than-expected earnings that sent shares rebounding back to near-record highs. But strong financial performance doesn't mean that all is well for the social media giant.

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'Everyday Astronaut' Series Brings Space Adventure to Facebook Watch

The man in the orange Russian spacesuit has a new way to get you excited about the final frontier. Photographer Tim Dodd has been traveling the world as the "Everyday Astronaut" since buying that second-hand suit in an online auction in 2013, spurring enthusiasm for space exploration and trying to ...

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Facebook's New TV Ad Doesn't Inspire a Lot of Confidence

Facebook launched a TV ad campaign on Wednesday that addresses the recent controversies swirling around the platform and attempts to remind users of simpler times. Titled “Here Together,” the 60-second commercial makes an appeal to the relationships users build on the site, corresponding with ...

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Facebook: Read This Buried Warning In Earnings Report

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Facebook and Google should be afraid: Analyst

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Facebook Messenger 'sleep mode' locks your kids out at bedtime

Facebook's Messenger for Kids has courted its share of controversy in the short time it's been on the scene. In an effort to clean up the app's reputation, Facebook is adding a feature that parents have been asking for: making it inaccessible during certain timeframes. Specifically, during dinner, when they ...

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Facebook Watch Adds More Light Fare: Shows From Nala the Cat, Tamera Mowry-Housley

Facebook hasn't disclosed metrics for Watch, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week said data indicates the strategy is working. “I'd say it's still pretty early overall in terms of the growth of [Watch], but it's clearly an area that's important, where I think we have something unique that we're going to bring to ...

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Facebook's original video strategy: Cats + weddings = profit

If you think that the internet is really just a repository for cat videos, well. You're not really wrong. Facebook announced today that Nala the Cat, who has 3.5 million followers at @nala_cat on Instagram, will be the star of "The Nala Show" on Facebook's Watch tab. According to Variety, the show's first ...

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Facebook Offers a Minor Fix for Its Troubling Messenger Kids Service

Facebook's messaging service for kids has been met with some disapproval. Child health advocates want Mark Zuckerberg to delete the app altogether, believing it to be detrimental to the development of young minds. Instead, Facebook expanded the reach of its app and, most recently, afforded more ...

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Three Master Tips For Coaches And Consultants Just Getting Started With Facebook Ads

When I first became a coach, a mentor told me that I could solely rely on organic traffic to get my business off the ground. I remember feeling ecstatic by this news. All I had to do was grow a Facebook group, occasionally send an email to my small list, and my business would flourish. But the truth is, I had ...

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Facebook gets rid of the most annoying part of its fundraising feature

Facebook is getting rid of one of the most frustrating features of its fundraising platform: the 4.3% fees they tacked onto transactions in the U.S. and 6.2% in Canada. As TechCrunch reports, Facebook used those fees to cover a review and vetting process for each fundraiser, but the company finally ...

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Facebook's Messenger Kids' app gains a 'sleep mode'

Facebook's Messenger Kids, the social network's new chat app for the under-13 crowd, has been designed to give parents more control over their kids' contact list. Today, the app is gaining a new feature, “sleep mode,” aimed at giving parents the ability to turn the app off at designated times. The idea is ...

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Facebook's red notification box has controlled me for too long. No more…

“You have been invited,” reads Facebook, in its distinctly chipper Californian voice, “to the engagement party of your ex. Good job!” Or it's an acquaintance's uninspiring birthday bash involving a long journey, when the sofa is calling. My finger hovers over the “not attending” button when, lo and behold, ...

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New Study Fails Facebook's Handling of User Information

Over two days of testimony before Congress earlier this month, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged a litany of questions from lawmakers about how the data of 87 million Americans ended up in the hands of voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica. The spectacle put a spotlight on the ...

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Facebook's Messenger Kids is getting a sleep mode

Messenger Kids, Facebook's chat app for children ages six to 12, is getting a sleep mode so parents can have more control over how much time a child spends using the app. With the new sleep mode, parents can set predetermined times when the app can't be used on a child's device, such as at night, ...

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Facebook Is Letting Parents Turn Off Their Kids' Messenger Apps With a New 'Sleep' Feature

(NEW YORK) — Facebook is adding a “sleep” mode to its Messenger Kids service to let parents limit when their kids can use it. The company says parents can now specify the times kids aren't allowed on — either as a one-time restriction or something recurring, such as after 9 p.m. every school night.

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Facebook: We Remain Bullish

In our previous article on Facebook (FB) that was published on April 9, we warned that bears were overreacting to the news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. As the initial panic faded, investors began to see that fundamentals were likely to be unaffected, as the growth in users around the world and ...

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Here's How Facebook Can Regain Trust At Its F8 Conference

Next Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage to give his annual opening keynote address at Facebook's F8 developer conference. In the wake of months of privacy- and security-related controversies that culminated in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it will be one of the most important public ...

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Facebook drops fundraising fees for personal causes

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Facebook wants children to take breaks from Messenger Kids

Facebook says it wants children to be able to take a time out from its Messenger Kids app. On Friday, the company introduced "sleep mode" for its chat app designed specifically for children aged 12 and under. The new feature lets parents set parameters for when their kids can and can't use the app.

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Facebook: 'Cheapest Stock in the S&P 500'?

While shares of Facebook Inc. (FB) rallied some 9% on Thursday on a first-quarter earnings beat, the stock has still underperformed the broader market this year, down 1.3% year-to-date (YTD) compared to the S&P 500's 0.3% decline. As the tech titan's shares stay cheap relative to the larger market and ...

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Thinking through the "What should we do about Facebook?" question

There is, at long last, a public appetite for Doing Something About Facebook (and, by extension, about all of Big Tech); I have been playing with the idea of regulating the outcome, rather than the method: we give Facebook a certain period of time to remedy the situation whereby people "can't afford to ...

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The stupefying pointlessness of Facebook's political theatre

Schroepfer flew to London to address British MPs' concerns over the role Facebook played in the imbroglio known under the shorthand name of Cambridge Analytica scandal — which encompasses a clot of issues ranging from micro-targeted political advertising in the Brexit and Trump campaigns, ...

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Facebook now lets you match donations on fundraisers

In its announcement on Friday, Facebook said it's adding a matching feature that would allow people to automatically match donations if fundraisers reach a set amount. Asha Sharma, Facebook's head of product for Social Good, said the company had noticed people promising to match donations on ...

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More Data Breaches Likely, Facebook Warns

The world's largest social media giant Facebook Inc. (FB), said data breaches like that identified earlier this year are possible, the Menlo Park, California-based company said in its recently filed quarterly report. With founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg facing multiple enquiries into the ...

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What should be done with Facebook – break it up, or regulate it?

Not only has Mark Zuckerberg taken up semi-permanent residence on Capitol Hill, but next week senior Facebook officials will appear before the House of Commons fake news inquiry, whose chairman, Damian Collins will attempt to unpack what went wrong in the entanglements between Facebook ...

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Do People Really Look At Facebook Reviews? Here's Why It Matters

There are 7.6 billion people in the world and 53% of them are active social media users. Out of the 4.021 billion users, nearly 55% are on Facebook. To say that the whole world is on Facebook is not such an overstatement anymore. Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world. It has 2.2 ...

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Are You Really the Product?

Also on March 21, the Week ran an op-ed by politics writer Edward Morrissey: “You're not Facebook's customer. You're Facebook's product.” Morrissey didn't attribute the phrase to anyone. Neither did Tapper's CNN colleague Brian Stelter, when he said on March 19, “You know, Facebook's free.

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After 9% pop, Stifel analyst admits he was 'wrong' on Facebook and upgrades stock

One Wall Street analyst regrets his decision to downgrade Facebook's stock earlier in the year after its big earnings beat. Facebook reported quarterly earnings and revenue well beyond consensus expectations on Wednesday despite its recent scandal involving data privacy and Cambridge Analytica.

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Facebook may look bulletproof, but it's bracing investors for bad news

Facebook's Q1 earnings make it look bulletproof, but it has warned investors that bad news may on the horizon. The true impact of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is yet to be revealed, with Facebook warning that "intense media coverage" could impact user numbers and revenue. Meanwhile, new ...

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“They think it's over”: Zuckerberg's former mentor says Facebook will get away with everything

Roger McNamee, a prominent tech investor and onetime mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, has little faith that Facebook will fix itself. “They think it's over,” he said at an event organized by Quartz in Washington, DC on April 26. The company is self-assured after Mark Zuckerberg's good-enough performance in ...

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Facebook scammers using 'Mark Zuckerberg' accounts to trick people out of cash

Facebook is battling to take down fake “Mark Zuckerberg” accounts that are being used to trick people into handing over their money. According to The New York Times, the scammers have been contacting people via Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg, and ...

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Brexit battle 'not swung by data pilfered from 87m Facebook users'

DATA pilfered from 87 million Facebook users was not used to swing the Brexit vote, despite dramatic claims from Remainers. Facebook told a Commons probe that the wild theory pushed by whistleblowers and MPs was untrue and controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica was not directly involved ...

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Malicious apps are still stealing your info on Facebook. Here's how to disconnect them now.

Clicking “connect with Facebook” when logging onto a new site may seem like an easy time-saver, but it could be putting your privacy in danger. Some 25,936 malicious apps use Facebook login services, according to a report released Wednesday by cybersecurity company TrustLook. The study comes ...

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Facebook in damage limitation mode

Facebook was in damage limitation mode on Thursday when its chief technology officer told British lawmakers that it would radically overhaul its political advertising rules to make them more transparent, after MPs attacked the social network for being a "morality-free zone". The MPs on the select ...

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Brit MPs brand Facebook a 'great vampire squid' out for cash

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer was not British MPs' first choice of witness, but they certainly made the most of his appearance in Parliament, grilling him on why his firm is a "morality free zone". As part of the global Search For Truth in the ongoing Facebook data-harvesting scandal, the Digital, Culture, ...

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Rein in Facebook like we did AT&T

The world has long trusted Google, Facebook and Amazon to wield their immense power with good judgment. But revelations including Russian use of social media to influence elections, the harvesting of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's own scraping of data from Android ...

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Wall Street much quicker to applaud Facebook than criticize it

With the ebullient reaction, the average price target on Facebook shares rose $2.21 on Thursday to $218.27, according to Thomson Reuters data, its highest in three weeks and about 20 percent above the latest price. By contrast it took three weeks for the mean price target to drop from its pre-scandal ...

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The Future Of Facebook: Interview With Inc. Digital's Michael Gale

Thought leader interview series on Facebook and data privacy: In the wake of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in front of Congress, I spoke with Inc. Digital's Michael Gale, digital transformation expert and co-author of the Wall Street Journal best-selling book, Digital Helix: ...

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Blame Facebook for That Moronic Diamond and Silk Hearing

More than anything, we heard some variation on the story, “Facebook censored me because I am a 'deplorable'/Christian/anti-abortion person.” While some interesting topics were raised, and the legal guidelines for social networks were clarified, it seems safe to say that few of the attendees learned ...

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Facebook Faces Tough Questions in Britain That It Avoided in the US

LONDON — Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, escaped tough questioning during congressional testimony this month in part because American lawmakers weren't well versed about how the social network functions. On Thursday, one of his deputies faced a decidedly sharper inquisition ...

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Opinion: This big lesson from Facebook's earnings will keep driving the stock price

Facebook's FB, +9.06% first-quarter earnings report nicely exploded the hype about how the Cambridge Analytica “scandal” would lead to plagues, locusts, and a tidal wave of defections by Facebook and Instagram users and advertisers. Profit surged 63%, revenue jumped 49%, and once-troublesome ...

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Facebook Launches a New Ad Campaign With an Old Message

On Wednesday, American TV viewers, including fans watching the NBA Playoffs, caught the launch of a major national advertising campaign from Facebook that will appear online, in movie theaters, public transit, billboards, and TV through the summer. “We came here for the friends,” the TV voiceover ...

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What Is Facebook's 2018 Outlook After Earnings Beat?

Facebook announced its Q1 results on Wednesday, April 25, reporting a massive 49% year-over-year increase in revenues to just under $12 billion. In addition, operating income jumped 64% to $5.5 billion, due to which net income was also up 63% y-o-y to just under $5 billion. As a result, Facebook ...

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Facebook Fails to Back Up Its Plea for the Public's Trust

After 10 hours of Capitol Hill hearings and five hours in Westminster in London, Facebook Inc. executives' main pitch to avoid draconian regulation has been, "We dropped the ball, you've just got to believe us when we say we'll do better." In the company's narrative, Facebook was created by a bunch of ...

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Facebook didn't read terms and conditions for app behind Cambridge Analytica

Facebook told British lawmakers on Thursday that it never read the terms and conditions for an app that ultimately allowed Cambridge Analytica to access 87 million users' names, “likes” and other personal information. The admission from Mike Schroepfer, the chief technology officer for the social media ...

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Facebook Kept Printing Money in the First Quarter. Will It Ever See a Hit From the Cambridge ...

Facebook reported solid results during its Q1 earnings call for 2018 despite a series of brutal recent news cycles. The company generally exceeded expectations with 49 percent growth to $11.97 billion in revenue, daily active users up 13 percent year-over-year to 1.45 billion, and a net income of $5 ...

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Facebook soars at the open, on pace for best day in 2 years

Facebook opened more than 8 percent higher a day after reporting better-than-expected first quarter earnings. It's an important benchmark and stock move for the social media giant. Facebook has been battling reports of online abuse, government probes and concerns around user privacy.

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Facebook boss faces intense grilling from laughing MPs during parliament hearing

The company's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, was summoned by the UK parliament's media committee to defend Facebook against accusations it immorally stole data from users, assisted in the undermining of elections and gave people insufficient control of their data. The committee ...

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Cramer: Embattled Facebook might be the 'cheapest stock in the S&P 500'

It appears all-is-forgotten on Wall Street concerning Facebook's data leak scandal that caused the stock to lose billions of dollars in market value, CNBC's Jim Cramer said on Thursday. In addition to reporting late Wednesday quarterly earnings and revenue that blew expectations, the company ...

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Facebook will vet and label political ads to try and stop them being used to undermine elections ...

Facebook will check political ads and label them to try and stop the site being used to derail elections, the company has said. New measures will be introduced to force ads to be clearly labelled by June this year, the company's chief technology officer told a parliamentary committee. The Digital, Culture ...

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Sheryl Sandberg delivered a passionate, defiant defense of Facebook's business

Facebook for weeks has had to defend its business model to lawmakers, investors and users. The company has been steadfast, if not mildly unconvincing in it's defense. But COO Sheryl Sandberg elevated the argument to a new level — looping Facebook's small business demographic into the ...

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'Your Company Is the Problem,' UK Lawmakers Tell Facebook

Tension and voices were high as Facebook Inc. Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer was questioned Thursday by a U.K. parliamentary committee investigating the impact of social media on recent elections. Schroepfer, who's the latest to give evidence to U.K. lawmakers in the wake of revelations ...

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Facebook chief's select committee session: five things we heard

Mike Schroepfer may not have been Mark Zuckerberg, but Facebook's chief technology officer was nevertheless forced to admit in front of MPs that the company had made errors in its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data breach, faced questions over what the company had not told MPs in a ...

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Here Comes Facebook's Annual Apps Fest. There's Just One Problem

Almost every year for a decade, Facebook Inc. has gathered makers of all sorts of apps, games, and advertising tools at its F8 conference to explain how much better their businesses could be by forming a partnership with the company to make them more social. The event generally had a celebratory ...

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Facebook slammed by UK lawmakers as CTO promises transparency overhaul

LONDON (Reuters) - A top Facebook executive apologized for errors made by the firm and vowed to do more to improve transparency during a four-hour grilling on Thursday from British lawmakers who insisted the company's response to a data scandal had been inadequate.

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Facebook Didn't Read the Fine Print on Data-Harvesting App

Facebook failed to read the fine print on app that ultimately played a major role in the harvesting of data for tens of millions of its users. Speaking to UK parliamentary members on Thursday, Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer acknowledged that Facebook “did not read all of the terms and ...

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Facebook's Earnings Are a Bright Spot After an Otherwise Dismal First Quarter

Despite a massive data breach scandal that landed CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the hot seat for two days of congressional hearings earlier this month, Facebook this week reported strong first quarter earnings that exceeded analysts' expectations. For the first quarter of 2018, Facebook generated $11.97 ...

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Why Europe's new data rules haven't rattled Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg exuded virtuousness earlier this month when he promised Congress that he would extend GDPR's privacy protections to all Facebook users. And some of the US lawmakers — not normally given to backing European regulations in areas where Washington has failed to act — almost ...

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Facebook 'concealed the truth' of what it knew about Cambridge Analytica, lawmaker claims

Facebook misled British lawmakers about what it knew about the data shared with Cambridge Analytica, a British lawmaker said Thursday. In February, Simon Milner, who was Facebook's U.K. head of policy at the time, told officials that Cambridge Analytica did not have any Facebook data.

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2018 could be high risk for Facebook and social media

2018 could be high risk for Facebook and social media. 5 Hours Ago. Cyrus Mewawalla says Facebook may have a harder time justifying being a content platform versus a media company, which would open it to more regulation. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

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Pro-Trump social media stars 'Diamond and Silk' slam Facebook in Congressional hearing

The two African-American Trump supporters, who have gained a following among Republicans came to Capitol Hill Thursday to tell tell their story and to help members of the committee understand the effects of they claim were attempts to silence conservative voices from Facebook and other social ...

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Facebook nears deal for Zuckerberg to face European Parliament

Facebook is close to a deal that would bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Brussels to answer questions from members of the European Parliament, according to a report by Politico. Earlier this month, Zuckerberg endured 10 hours of grilling over two days in the chambers of Congress. That followed the onset ...

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Facebook is investigating whether secretive firm Palantir had 'improper' access to user data

Facebook is looking into whether secretive firm Palantir had improper access to user data, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a top executive said Thursday. Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at the social network, appeared in front of U.K. lawmakers to answer questions about the ...

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Advertisers stick by Facebook despite privacy scandal

Facebook has spent months trying to assuage the doubts of lawmakers, regulators and users who have been angered about the company's role in privacy, disinformation and elections. But the social network's first-quarter earnings showed advertisers had few such qualms about its role in the world.

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Here's what Wall Street analysts are saying after Facebook's big earnings win

Wall Street is buzzing over Facebook's latest earnings results, which topped Wall Street's expectations despite recent uproar about the company's handling of user information. While details of the Cambridge Analytica scandal were only just emerging as the first quarter ended, news of a hefty beat on ...

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'Facebook is a morality-free zone': tech chief lambasted by MP

Facebook has been accused of being a “morality-free zone” that bullies journalists and threatens academics, as one of its executives appeared in front of MPs. The Conservative MP Julian Knight told the social network's chief technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, the company's reaction to the Cambridge ...

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Facebook accused of bullying by MPs

MPs have accused Facebook of "bullying" the Guardian newspaper when it informed the company about a major data breach. Chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer was asked why Facebook had threatened to sue the newspaper over its story about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. He was ...

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Facebook admits it did not read terms of the app that harvested data of 87 million

Facebook did not read the terms and services of the app that improperly shared user data with Cambridge Analytica, the company's chief technology officer said Thursday. "We require that people have a terms and conditions and we have an automated check there at the time — this was in 2014, maybe ...

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Facebook to Vet UK Political Ads During 2019 Elections

Schroepfer is the latest to give evidence to U.K. lawmakers as part of an investigation into fake news and its impact on elections, in the wake of revelations that vast swathes of Facebook user data were shared with British data firm Cambridge Analytica. The CTO said Facebook ads would be labeled as ...

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Number of active Facebook users increased despite scandals

Facebook says its user base and revenue increased significantly in the first three months of 2018, despite the setback caused by the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal. The California-based social-media company released its quarterly results on Wednesday evening. Facebook saw the number ...

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Facebook says AggregateIQ spent $2m on Brexit-related ads

Facebook has revealed that AggregateIQ, a Canadian data company with alleged links to Cambridge Analytica, spent $2m on Brexit-related ads in the UK and shared “certain billing and administration connections” with the British analytics company at the centre of an international privacy scandal.

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Facebook branded a 'morality-free zone' in government inquiry

A top Facebook exec today faced a tough grilling from the British government over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the impact of "fake news" on the Brexit referendum. Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer sat before the UK inquiry in place of the social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who testified in ...

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