Facebook Starts Labeling Political Ads in the US

Facebook took another step to make it harder for Russia, and other bad actors, to influence future elections Thursday: The company began rolling out ...

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Inside Facebook's anti-sex trafficking hackathon

Tech giants put their rivalries aside for two days this week to code for a common cause: protecting children on the internet. Deep inside Facebook's ...

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Facebook to bring out more privacy features to show what users are revealing

Facebook says users in Canada and other countries will soon be getting a new type of privacy alert similar to one it first rolled out in the European ...

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Google and Facebook Are Swaying Ireland's Abortion Referendum Even When They Tried Not To

It takes about 20 minutes to walk from the European headquarters of Facebook and Google, near Dublin's docks, to the seat of the Irish Government.

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Zuckerberg says Facebook has 'always shared' the values of Europe's new data law

Facebook has always shared the principles of a strict data protection law being introduced by the European Union this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

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Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges

Mark Zuckerberg faces allegations that he developed a “malicious and fraudulent scheme” to exploit vast amounts of private data to earn Facebook ...

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Here's What Facebook Might Be Exploring When It Comes to Blockchain Technology

Two weeks ago, Facebook sent ripples through the cryptocurrency and blockchain world by revealing its own plans to dive into the emerging ...

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Facebook's new profile design looks COMPLETELY different – and people love it

FACEBOOK appears to be testing a brand new look for your profile – and it looks just like Instagram. The major makeover means your Facebook posts ...

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Facebook Group Admins Are Getting Some New Features

Admin support, a dedicated place for group admins to report issues or ask questions, with Facebook saying it aims to respond within one business day ...

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Trump campaign wants answers on Facebook and Twitter 'political bias'

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee sent a letter to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey with complaints ...

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Facebook is rolling out its GDPR privacy rules to the world

At first, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only agreed with the European Union's General Data Protection Rules (GDPR) "in spirit." Now, following ...

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What the GDPR means for Facebook, the EU and you

When the Cambridge Analytica scandal at Facebook emerged in March, privacy advocates found an eye-catching example of why internet users might ...

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Facebook is expanding its controversial anti-revenge porn program to the US, UK, and Canada

Last November, Australian media reported that Facebook was experimenting with a novel idea to combat revenge porn on its platforms. In a pilot ...

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Don't ignore this alert from Facebook. It's your chance to quickly curb what it knows

Sometime soon, Facebook will get in the way of using Facebook for a minute or two. The social network will present a series of dialogs to U.S. users to ...

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Opinion: The tale of Turtleboy and how Facebook stifles free speech

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Facebook now supports 2-factor authentication without SMS, here's how to set it up

If you have a Facebook profile – it doesn't really matter if you use it a lot or not – it's important to secure it with two-factor authentication so your account ...

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Facebook must comply with European privacy laws in 'real life,' EU's digital policy chief say

The European Union's digital policy chief has urged Facebook to stick to its promise and abide by the region's more stringent data protection rules.

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Facebook will push privacy alert to users outside EU ahead of GDPR

Over the next few weeks, Facebook users outside of Europe will see a notice that walks them through privacy settings and explains how the company ...

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Confessions of Facebook's parking valets, who park employees' cars for them on the sprawling ...

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Mail Online's falling traffic blamed on Facebook's newsfeed overhaul

Mail Online has lost almost a tenth of its global audience and advertising revenue growth has slumped following Facebook's move to deprioritise news ...

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Facebook accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps

Facebook used its apps to gather information about users and their friends, including some who had not signed up to the social network, reading their ...

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Nigel Farage says Facebook is killing right-wing pages. He could have a point

Is Facebook deliberately cracking down on right-wing pages? Questioning Mark Zuckerberg in the EU Parliament, Nigel Farage was certain it was.

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Facebook's desperate for people to take its fake news fight seriously

Facebook really, really wants you to know that it's serious about fighting fake news. The social network today announced a series of efforts meant to ...

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Facebook will ask users outside of Europe to review their privacy settings, too

Facebook will ask users around the world — not just those in Europe — to review their privacy settings, a step the company took with European users ...

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Facebook is about to ask every user a few big privacy questions

Facebook plans to send all its non-European users a full-screen privacy alert when they use the social network in the coming weeks, enabling them to ...

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Facebook users worldwide are being asked to review their privacy settings as GDPR looms

Facebook users will soon see a notice on their accounts asking them to review their privacy settings, as the company prepares for the rollout of new ...

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Facebook won't require a phone number for two-factor authentication

One good thing to come from Facebook's government scrutiny is that the social network makes an advancement in security, it's very loud about the fact ...

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How Apple, Facebook and Google are changing to comply with GDPR

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple hold colossal amounts of information about billions of people around the world. Fall foul of ...

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Should you send Facebook all your nude photos?

Facebook has spent years working with other large technology firms to build software that can identify problem images the second they hit the net, and ...

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Zuckerberg's Promises Won't Fix Facebook, But You Can

This is the third of a three-part series on Facebook's business model, management priorities and how you can help reduce the company's harmful ...

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Facebook launches new tools for Group admins, including free customer service

Facebook's Groups are one of the social network's most popular products, with more than 1.4 billion monthly users across tens of millions of active ...

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Zuckerberg's Broken Promises Show Facebook Is Not Your Friend

This is the second of a three-part series on Facebook's business model, management priorities and how you can help reduce the company's harmful ...

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Managing a Facebook group is hard. Zuckerberg is trying to make it better

No longer would Facebook merely be focused on "making the world more open and connected." Now, it wanted to "give people the power to build ...

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Facebook Is Beefing Up Its Two-Factor Authentication

Facebook has been quietly rolling out the update over the last month and ... The update also follows Facebook's announcement that it would begin ...

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Four of the EU's harshest hits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stayed pretty quiet during a meeting with members of the European Parliament, but the EU leaders sure didn't.

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Why Facebook Should Be Held Legally Liable For Everything It Publishes

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Facebook Loses EU Friends as Bloc's Lawmakers Weigh Break Up

Facebook Inc.'s founder Mark Zuckerberg probably realized he was on unfriendly territory when European Union lawmakers at Tuesday's hearing ...

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This Congress member wants to replace Facebook with text messages

Rick Crawford, a Republican from Arkansas, believes he's found something better than Facebook. The congressman, who sits on the House ...

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Facebook, I'm done with you; it's all about texting now, says congressman

I eventually reached the realization that by having a Facebook page I was encouraging constituents to use an unsecure platform to reach me, so I ...

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Facebook Brushes Aside Proposal Over Labeling of Political News

While Facebook Inc. has said that it wants to draw the line between news and misinformation, the company turned down an offer to work with a news ...

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Facebook is digging deeper into the gig economy

Facebook wants to get into the home improvement business with its latest launch. The company is expanding Marketplace, its Craigslist-like ...

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You can now find a plumber through Facebook

"More people ask for recommendations related to home services on Facebook in the US than any other topic," said Deb Liu, vice president of ...

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Facebook can help you fix or clean your home

Facebook is rolling out an update that lets you book people to fix things at your house. You can hire a plumber, a contractor, an electrician and house ...

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Data Sheet—Why Facebook Should Be Liable for What It Publishes

The sheer scale of the nefarious crap that litters Facebook is astonishing. As Michal Lev-Ram relates in her new feature on the company, in just the ...

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Facebook wants to be taken seriously in the workplace and is counting on Okta for help

Facebook is starting to take the enterprise world seriously, and it's now signing up partners that can provide much-needed credibility. In 2016, the ...

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Mark Zuckerberg's worldwide apology tour for Facebook hits a snag in the EU

If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's globe-trotting apology tour over privacy violations, election meddling and allowing hate speech to flourish on ...

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Facebook Marketplace expands into home services

Facebook is entering the home services market. Starting today, U.S. Facebook users browsing the Facebook Marketplace will be able to search ...

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Facebook Marketplace now lets you hire plumbers and cleaners

Facebook is launching a new home services feature in its Marketplace section for US users. Marketplace is a separate commerce section on ...

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European lawmakers criticize Zuckerberg for his lack of answers

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with European lawmakers in Brussels on Tuesday has been criticized by political ...

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Facebook wants your naked photos to stop revenge porn

Facebook is asking British users to send naked photos of themselves to the social network, to try to stop revenge porn. If you're worried an intimate ...

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Facebook's Apology Tour Just Raises More Questions

A pattern has emerged in Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's response to various legislative bodies' interest in his company.

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Facebook chief faces EU grilling over his 'digital monster'

BRUSSELS (AP) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced tough questions from European Union lawmakers Tuesday over what one of them branded ...

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Barraged With Questions by Europe Lawmakers

European lawmakers barraged Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with a litany of questions on Tuesday over his company's vast power, ...

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Zuckerberg promises 3000 more Facebook employees in Europe

In the Facebook CEO's opening statement to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Zuckerberg described his company's commitment to Europe, ...

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Highlights: Facebook's Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the European Parliament on Tuesday for a massive data leak, his ...

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UPDATE 1-Facebook's Zuckerberg arrives for grilling by EU lawmakers over data leak

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EU Parliament grilled Facebook's Zuckerberg over data mining, election meddling

After being questioned for more than 10 hours over two days by the US Congress in April, Facebook's chief continues his efforts to reassure ...

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and your privacy

James Hughes, a market analyst at Axitrader, says: "I think what this is for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg is almost he's using it as a PR tour. I really ...

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, is set to meet with leaders of the European Parliament to answer questions about how the data of millions ...

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Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels: Live updates as Facebook boss grilled by members of EU parliament

Mark Zuckerberg will this afternoon be grilled by members of the European Parliament over data protection standards at Facebook following the ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European Parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about how the data of ...

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Watch Live: EU Parliament grills Facebook's Zuckerberg over data mining, election meddling

Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels on the latest stop of his apology tour, delivering yet another mea culpa for privacy and policy blunders that led to one of ...

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RPT-Facebook's Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

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Mark Zuckerberg to face EU questions over Facebook user data scandal

European Union lawmakers plan to press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday about data protection standards at the internet giant at a ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg apologizes to EU lawmakers over data leak

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologised to European Union lawmakers on Tuesday for a massive data leak, in his latest ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg to apologise to EU lawmakers over data leak

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg arrived to meet European Union lawmakers on Tuesday ready to apologise for a massive ...

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Zuckerberg comes to Europe to answer Facebook criticisms

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg had to answer to the US Congress for his company's business methods, and many in Europe's parliament resent him ...

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Facebook threatened with removal from EU-US data pact

The European Commission has suggested the United States suspend social media giant Facebook from a data-transfer sharing pact with the EU if it ...

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to meet with European lawmakers

The Facebook founder is schedule to meet with members of the European Parliament about his company's use of personal data, privacy limits and the ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg arrives for grilling by EU lawmakers over data leak

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UK digital committee fumes: You didn't answer our questions, Facebook. (Psst. EU. Pass 'em on)

The latest missive in an increasingly tense written battle between the UK's digital committee and Facebook has seen MPs accuse the data slurping ...

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Facebook boss faces European Parliament over data scandal

BRUSSELS: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg faces tough questions later Tuesday (May 22) at the European Parliament over the fallout from the ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to tell European Parliament: 'I'm sorry'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mea culpa tour continues Tuesday. The co-founder of the massive social network will appear before the European ...

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One of Facebook's most senior executives is so loyal she says she'd agree to 'cleaning the toilets' if ...

One of Facebook's most senior executives, Naomi Gleit, believes so deeply in the social media firm and her colleagues that she'd agree to "cleaning ...

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Facebook and Google fined by Indian supreme court for refusing to remove sexual content

Google, Microsoft, WhatsApp and Facebook have been fined a sum of Rs. 1 lakh (USD $1,471) by the Indian supreme court after failing to reply to the ...

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is heading to Brussels — here's what European lawmakers want to ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with lawmakers in Europe on Tuesday as concerns over the way his company handles its users' data ...

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EU Parliament to grill Facebook's Zuckerberg over data mining, election meddling

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Facebook's Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling

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Facebook's Fix-It Team

For 20 minutes on the morning of May 1, Facebook users saw a curious query at the end of every update on their feeds. “Does this post contain hate ...

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Facebook is full of could-be CEOs — but no one ever leaves

Yet Facebook's upper ranks have looked very familiar for a very long time. The company doesn't comment on the makeup of its management team, ...

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Here's Why You'll Probably Never Quit Facebook, According to Science

The smartest people you know are those few rebels who never signed up for Facebook and don't ever intend to. A wealth of research has been ...

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Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe to 'clarify' Facebook's data practices. Here's how to watch his ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will answer questions about his company's data privacy policies on Tuesday during a 75-minute meeting with ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg due to face new test in front of European lawmakers

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is set to field tough questions on Tuesday from European policymakers who are investigating the social ...

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Facebook faces EU grilling

Facebook has been engulfed in a scandal after data of up to 87m of its users were passed to a UK analytics company, without explicit consent.

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Exclusive: EU warns that Facebook's Cambridge Analytica crisis is the 'tip of an iceberg' of data ...

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor, told Business Insider that Facebook's business model contributed to the data of 87 ...

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'Facebook takes data from my phone – but I don't have an account!'

Anyone who uses the Facebook phone app knows what a toll it can take both on your mobile data and free time to be plugged into the social network ...

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Who's policing Facebook?

In an effort to answer concerns, he will once again turn to the fact Facebook has been hiring people in droves. Thousands of new workers, taken on to ...

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Zuckerberg to Tout Facebook European Investment in Testimony

Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg will tout the company's investment in Europe and again take responsibility for privacy failures, according to testimony ...

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Activist groups launch campaign to break up Facebook

“Facebook unilaterally decides the news that billions of people around the world see every day. It buys up or bankrupts potential competitors to protect ...

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Political activists are now asking the FTC to break Facebook up into four companies

For the most part, it seems that Facebook managed to weather the storm following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. For starters, Mark Zuckerberg did ...

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When You're Not Just the Product on Facebook, but the Manager

In the near future, if Facebook fulfills its stated goal, a billion people will be part of a “meaningful group” on the service, up from 200 million now. By the ...

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Progressive Groups Launch Ad Campaign to Break Up Facebook

The “Freedom from Facebook” campaign has a six-figure budget, according to Axios, and will run ads with messages like “Facebook keeps violating ...

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The Push to Break Up Facebook Just Got Serious

Cruz's tirade illustrated the gulf that still exists between Facebook and the right, despite Facebook's attempts to cozy up to Republicans. Nor has ...

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What Germany's struggling 'Facebook Law' tells us about regulating social media

The regulation is more commonly known as "The Facebook Law". Germany has a unique history of hate speech laws, and cracking down on social ...

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Won't see material impact for Facebook or Google with GDPR, analyst says

Mark Mahaney, RBC Capital Markets lead internet analyst, discusses the risks for tech stocks from increased regulation in the EU and calls for ...

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Facebook wants to make changing your privacy settings less work

Facebook is supposed to be a fun way to waste some time, but taking a break from "liking" status updates to customize your privacy settings is a chore.

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New 'Freedom From Facebook' Group Wants to Dismantle It

It's another group that dislikes Facebook (FB), but with a twist: This one wants to take it to another level and break up the social network.

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Progressive groups want FTC to split Facebook into multiple companies

Today, Axios reports that progressive groups will launch an advertising offensive aimed squarely at Facebook. Their mission? To convince the FTC to ...

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Facebook too powerful, should spin off Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, groups tell FTC

The social network, which boasts 2.2 billion users on Facebook alone, should be forced by the FTC to spin-off WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook ...

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Facebook and Qualcomm will bring fast WiFi to cities in mid-2019

Facebook's been talking Terragraph since way back during its 2016 F8 keynote. The social media giant's ambitious plan to bring fast Wifi to cities is ...

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Facebook confirms mega-lease that enables Sunnyvale move

SUNNYVALE — Facebook's huge lease in Sunnyvale is now officially confirmed and will lead to a million-square-foot expansion by the social media ...

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Progressive Groups Launch Campaign to Break Up Facebook

A coalition of progressive groups launched a campaign to break up Facebook Monday. Armed with a six-figured ad budget and an online petition, the ...

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The Movement to Break Up Facebook Has Begun

Privacy and anti-monopoly advocacy groups launched the Freedom from Facebook campaign on Monday, demanding that the Federal Trade ...

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Quick poll: Has Facebook changed its spots?

Facebook has suspended 200 apps for misusing members' data. While we're ecstatic to see the company is taking steps against what it considers to ...

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Facebook tests influencer search engine for marketers

Facebook is testing a new tool that would help match advertisers with social media creators, TechCrunch confirmed with the social media company.

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MoveOn and other left-leaning groups are petitioning FTC to break up Facebook

A movement led by left-leaning advocacy groups is asking the Federal Trade Commission to force Facebook to spin off its other social platforms ...

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DARE: News Organizations Flag Concerns on Facebook's Political-Ad Rules

News organizations raise objections to parts of Facebook's plans to combat misinformation in political advertising. Online hoaxers move within ...

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Qualcomm joins Facebook's Terragraph Project to bring fast Wi-Fi to US cities

Facebook and Qualcomm are teaming up to bring fast Wi-Fi to cities across the United States. For at least two years, the social media giant has been ...

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Call for Facebook to be broken up as EU says it will livestream Zuckerberg's testimony

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress was the video stream that launched a thousand memes – and now meme creators will get ...

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Fugitive brags she's 'not in jail' — on a police Facebook page. Now, not so much

When police in Moses Lake, Wash., posted on Facebook to ask for help finding Kayla Irizzary, 19, she may have been the last person they expected to ...

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Advocacy Groups Call for the FTC to Break Up Facebook

The campaign, named Freedom from Facebook, was set into motion today by eight groups —Demand Progress, Citizens Against Monopoly, Content ...

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Activists are lobbying the FTC to break up Facebook

Several progressive groups are mounting an ad campaign to persuade the US Federal Trade Commission to break up Facebook, according to Axios.

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Facebook support groups packed with predatory marketers

Looking to Facebook for help with addiction? Take care: the social network is full of predators, and they know where to find vulnerable people. They're ...

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Facebook: Valuation Update After Quarterly Results With DCF Model

In March, the monthly total return of Facebook amounted to -10.7% - almost within the bounds of the standard deviation. From this point of view, the ...

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Qualcomm, Facebook to deliver high-speed internet for 'a fraction' of the cost of fiber

On Monday, Qualcomm and Facebook announced a partnership to deliver high-speed internet connectivity in urban areas for "a fraction of the cost" of ...

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Facebook and Qualcomm aim to bring mega-fast Wi-Fi to urban areas

Qualcomm said it will integrate Facebook's Terragraph technology, which uses high-frequency radio waves to speed up networks where populations ...

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What Facebook isn't telling us about its fight against online abuse

Facebook has for the first time made available data on the scale of abusive comments posted to its site. This may have been done under the growing ...

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Here's How to Watch Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Testimony to EU Parliament

Perhaps still smarting from the grilling he took in front of Congress (and the mocking his deadpan answers elicited), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

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Facebook is killing Snapchat with the format it created

After introducing Stories in 2013, Snapchat's most prominent feature has really come into its own in the past two years. In 2016, Facebook poked the ...

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Predatory behavior runs rampant in Facebook's addiction support groups

When Laurie Couch first joined the Affected by Addiction Support Group, a closed Facebook group with 70,000 members, she felt a sense of ...

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The Facebook Train Keeps a Rollin'

When it comes to advertising revenue, it seems like nothing can derail the Facebook train. Despite the election interference issues spanning from ...

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Facebook, Qualcomm team up to deliver 60GHz Internet in urban areas

On Monday, the tech giants said that at the core of the scheme is Facebook's Terragraph technology; a millimeter-wave, multi-node wireless backhaul ...

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Facebook and Qualcomm partner to develop high-speed Terragraph Wi-Fi service for cities

Hoping to bring relief to overcrowded urban wireless networks, Qualcomm and Facebook today announced that they will work together to develop the ...

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Facebook and YouTube are the worst offenders for exposing children to suicide and sex, NSPCC ...

Facebook and YouTube have been highlighted by a leading charity for being the worst offenders in exposing children to themes of suicide, violence ...

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BRIEF-Qualcomm And Facebook To Bring Internet Connectivity To Urban Areas

May 21 (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc: * QUALCOMM AND FACEBOOK TO BRING HIGH-SPEED INTERNET CONNECTIVITY OVER 60GHZ TO URBAN ...

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Facebook gaffe causes app to ask users for “full access” to their phones

Late last week, the Facebook app started showing Android users a highly concerning popup message. “Superuser Request,” it declared. “Grants full ...

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Facebook's Terragraph hopes to replace fiber broadband beginning with 2019 trials

Facebook's plan to connect neighborhoods and businesses wirelessly, known as Terragraph, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology ...

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Facebook will let EU parliament livestream meeting with Mark Zuckerberg

Behind the scenes, it appears Facebook recognized the brewing blowback and opted to risk another public grilling of Zuckerberg by public officials ...

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U-turn over Facebook chief's EU meeting

Facebook operates a public platform and therefore has to publicly take responsibility for its actions," said an online petition launched by the German ...

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Activists open campaign to persuade FTC to break-up Facebook

Activists have opened a digital advertising campaign today to persuade the US Federal Trade Commission to break-up Facebook. The coalition of ...

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Facebook and Qualcomm are bringing super-fast WiFi to cities

Facebook wants to be everywhere on the planet, even if that means building the internet itself. To that end, it recently unveiled Terragraph, ...

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Wanted woman arrested after taunting police on Facebook

MOSES LAKE, WA (RNN) – Police in Washington arrested a 19-year-old convicted felon, who they say posted on the department's Facebook page ...

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Facebook is teaming up with Qualcomm to work on high-speed wireless internet

Facebook has now enlisted Qualcomm to provide the tech for its gigabit Wi-Fi project that is meant to make sending data through routers more efficient ...

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New Fortune 500, Trade War Pause, Facebook Breakup Call: CEO Daily for May 21, 2018

Progressive and pro-consumer groups are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to force the separation of Instagram, Facebook Messenger and ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg agrees to live-stream European hearing

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has bowed to pressure and agreed to allow his grilling in front of the European Parliament this week to be ...

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Facebook faces sanctions in data scandal, says EU justice chief

Facebook could face EU sanctions over the hijacked data scandal, EU justice chief Věra Jourová reveals today. Her warning comes on the eve of a ...

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U-turn over Facebook chief's EU meeting

Earlier, news that the Facebook chief's meeting with the parliament's political group leaders would be in private, had been criticised. The arrangement ...

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This new tech could help publishers move past Facebook dependency

When Facebook announced in January that it would soon de-emphasize posts from publishers in users' news feeds, it felt like the last betrayal in a ...

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ICO could use new GDPR powers in Facebook probe

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) could use new powers under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to examine software ...

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Facebook's Zuckerberg agrees to live-stream EU parliament hearing

BRUSSELS: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to live-stream his meeting with European Parliament members as he answers questions in ...

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Whatsapp could be testing a Facebook sharing feature which could prove very annoying indeed

We've all sighed and grimaced after seeing our friends write a particularly irritating Facebook post. But soon there may be no escape from the hell of ...

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Facebook Indonesia removes thousands of posts after Surabaya bombings

Facebook Indonesia has reportedly removed thousands of posts related to the recent Surabaya bombings. Facebook Indonesia public policy lead ...

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Facebook: Hopes for tougher questioning over 'shadow profiles'

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned by Members of the EU Parliament tomorrow over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ...

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What to Know About 'Freedom From Facebook,' the New Progressive Campaign to Break Up the ...

Facebook has been getting hassled a lot by conservatives recently, mostly over its alleged bias against them, but here comes an attack from the left.

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Qualcomm And Facebook Team Up To Deliver High-Speed Internet Connectivity

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Facebook have made an announcement stating that they have joint efforts to work towards delivering high-speed ...

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Texas Official Who Blamed School Shooting on Doors Now Also Blames Facebook and Video ...

Our Facebook, our Twitter. The bullying of adults on adults and children on children. We have to look at ourselves, George. It's not about the guns, ...

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Facebook's infuriating response driving Aussies crazy

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This striking league table reveals that Facebook and YouTube are the worst offenders when it ...

The NSPCC gathered reviews from more than 4,000 parents and young people and slapped Facebook and YouTube with a red warning in a league ...

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Car stolen from Sheffield after seller advertised it on Facebook

Two men arranged to look at the silver Audi A4 on Vauxhall Road, Wincobank, but a dispute broke out over the price and they drove off in the car.

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MFI group warns about shady Facebook adverts

Yun Sovanna, executive director of the CMA, said Sunday that so-called easy cash loans are becoming increasing noticeable on Facebook. He noted ...

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Qualcomm and Facebook to bring connectivity in excess of 60GHz to urban areas

Qualcomm Incorporated through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Facebook have announced they are working together to deliver ...

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Universities Quietly Collaborate with Facebook

At the end of 2016, 16 universities entered into an agreement with Facebook to help the company quickly develop new technologies. Now, a total of 30 ...

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Facebook's infuriating response driving Aussies crazy

Maybe it was an inappropriate photo or a really nasty comment about someone, so you decide to report it to Facebook. You jump through all the hoops ...

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Why Is My Facebook Android App Asking For “Superuser” Permission?

In another shocking development, the company's Facebook Android app was caught asking users for “superuser” permissions to their phones.

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Ads Come To Facebook Stories; Google Extends Olive Branch To Publishers

Advertising is coming to Facebook Stories, a sleeper hit on the Facebook platform that draws 150 million daily active users. Ads will be 15- to ...

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Virtual reality is finally ready for normal people, and the $200 Facebook Oculus Go is your ticket

Facebook saw this and addressed a new market with the Oculus Go , which started shipping earlier this month. It's a fully portable virtual reality ...

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Do Match Investors Need to Worry About Facebook?

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