Facebook revenue soars despite growing privacy concerns

Even as it faced new revelations of invasive privacy practices, Facebook reported $16.9 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 on Wednesday ...

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Facebook issues memo on Apple Enterprise Certificate fiasco as employees vent frustration

Facebook is conducting internal damage control after Apple yanked the social media giant's enterprise developer certificates, a move that effectively ...

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Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook's Privacy Problem

It's nowhere in his job description, but Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, has recently taken a moonlight gig as Facebook's privacy watchdog.

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Facebook could be forced to share data on effects to the young

Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter could be required by law to share data with researchers to help examine potential harms to ...

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Facebook, Google Draw Scrutiny Over Apps That Collected Data From Teens

In the latest revelation to raise privacy concerns about Silicon Valley's tech titans, reports have surfaced that Facebook and Google offered adults and ...

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to get back to building new Facebook products

On Wednesday, when the Facebook CEO took questions from analysts after reporting better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, Zuckerberg ...

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Why Facebook's Banned 'Research' App Was So Invasive

As Facebook deals with the fallout from yet another privacy scandal, ... But Facebook used this program for a consumer research app, which Apple ...

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Facebook posts record profit despite year of scandal

Facebook closed the book on its scandal-plagued year Wednesday, with strong fourth quarter financial results that beat analyst expectations for ...

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Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access ... And they have been particularly vocal critics of Facebook.

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To Facebook, your privacy is worth a $20 gift card

Another day, another Facebook controversy. The latest backlash follows a TechCrunch report that the company was secretly paying teenagers to ...

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Twitter and Alphabet shares jump after Facebook's massive earnings beat shows online ad strength

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Despite A Difficult Year, Facebook Shares Soar As It Beats Forecasts

Mark Zuckerberg may have been feeling vindicated on Wednesday. After what's been horrible year for his company's reputation, Facebook surprised ...

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Despite its tumultuous year, Facebook is still growing in the US as advertisers keep spending more

Facebook reported revenue growth of nearly 32 percent in the U.S. and Canada compared to last year, bringing in $8.43 billion in its fourth quarter ...

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Facebook keeps growing despite scandals and privacy outrage

Facebook's past year has been filled with back-to-back privacy scandals and seemingly nonstop bad news, but you wouldn't know it looking at the ...

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Facebook users continue to grow despite privacy scandals

Facebook users have continued to rise despite a series of data privacy scandals and criticism over its attempt to stem toxic content. The social media ...

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Facebook Just Shut Down a Secret Program That Paid Teenagers to Install Spyware on Their ...

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Facebook Shares Surge as Sales, Profit Beat Wall Street Estimates

Facebook Inc. reported revenue that beat Wall Street estimates as advertisers stuck with the social media company through a series of privacy ...

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Facebook's scandals aren't stopping it from making tons of money

We're all well aware that Facebook had a dreadful 2018, and 2019 isn't looking any better, what with the company being plagued by scandals ...

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Facebook earnings, user base jump even as scandals grow

Monthly active users -- the number of people who log on to Facebook every month -- rose 9 percent year-over-year to 2.32 billion in the fourth quarter, ...

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Facebook keeps attracting digital ads, shares jump after hours

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc reported better-than-expected profit on Wednesday, showing that digital advertisers were still flocking to spend money on the ...

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Facebook Shares Rise on Better-Than-Expected Holiday Quarter Earnings

Facebook generated revenue of $16.9 billion during the holiday quarter, compared to close to $13 billion during the same time a year ago. Net income ...

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Lawmakers are furious with Facebook: 'wiretapping teens is not research'

Tuesday night, a TechCrunch investigation revealed that Facebook had been secretly paying teenagers to install a VPN that let the company see ...

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Apple May Be Facebook's Toughest Regulator

Facebook's toughest regulator may not be the Federal Trade Commission or another government agency, but rather its tech giant rival Apple.

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Facebook User Growth Helps Dismiss Backlash Concerns

According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 42% of U.S. Facebook users said they had taken a break of several weeks or longer from checking ...

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Facebook, Google Draw Scrutiny Over Apps That Collected Data From Teens

In the latest revelation to raise privacy concerns about Silicon Valley's tech titans, reports have surfaced that Facebook and Google offered adults and ...

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Facebook Soars on an Earnings Beat and Solid User Stats: 6 Key Takeaways

Following a year in which it saw an almost unrelenting barrage of negative coverage, Facebook (FB - Get Report) just shared a set of numbers that ...

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Facebook issues memo on Apple Enterprise Certificate fiasco as employees vent frustration

Facebook is conducting internal damage control after Apple yanked the social media giant's enterprise developer certificates, a move that effectively ...

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Why Facebook's Banned 'Research' App Was So Invasive

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Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook's Privacy Problem

It's nowhere in his job description, but Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, has recently taken a moonlight gig as Facebook's privacy watchdog.

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Merged Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messages will be more private: Facebook

The plan to link Facebook-owned messaging systems and make them inter-operable was confirmed Wednesday by the social network as a way to ...

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Facebook has been paying teens for data. What could this mean for calls to regulate the company?

Once again, Facebook finds itself in hot water over a privacy issue. The latest debacle, as TechCruch reports, involves Facebook paying users, some ...

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Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics

In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access ... And they have been particularly vocal critics of Facebook.

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Facebook posts record profit despite year of scandal

Facebook closed the book on its scandal-plagued year Wednesday, with strong fourth quarter financial results that beat analyst expectations for ...

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Facebook earnings jump 61% despite bad press

Facebook is again increasing its user base in Europe and North America and showing record earnings -- proof that, despite privacy concerns, it can ...

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Facebook Is Now a Family Affair

In the third quarter, Facebook attributed deceleration in advertising revenue growth to its shift in ad placements from the main newsfeed of its platforms ...

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Facebook Shares Soar on Robust Earnings Report

Facebook (FB - Get Report) reported extremely strong financial results on Wednesday after the close, sending shares sharply higher in after-hours ...

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Twitter and Alphabet shares jump after Facebook's massive earnings beat shows online ad strength

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Despite A Difficult Year, Facebook Shares Soar As It Beats Forecasts

Mark Zuckerberg may have been feeling vindicated on Wednesday. After what's been horrible year for his company's reputation, Facebook surprised ...

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Facebook Gains More Users as Revenue and Profits Climb

SAN FRANCISCO — After a painful year of scandals centered on how Facebook handles people's data, the social network said Wednesday that it had ...

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Facebook keeps growing despite scandals and privacy outrage

Facebook's past year has been filled with back-to-back privacy scandals and seemingly nonstop bad news, but you wouldn't know it looking at the ...

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Facebook users continue to grow despite privacy scandals

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Facebook reports record profit, stock surges more than 12% after earnings

Facebook Inc. reported record profits — about $1 billion more than any previous quarter — as the company beat Wall Street expectations for ...

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Facebook Stock Is Up Because Earnings Crushed Expectations

Facebook stock (ticker: FB) surged in after-hours trading after the social networking giant reported better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter earnings.

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Facebook, up 20 percent from the lows, could see another double-digit rally

A positive quarter for Apple has its shares rallying hard Wednesday after a brutal three months. Facebook , another FAANG name no stranger to ...

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Facebook closes research program that allowed it to spy on Apple users

After the TechCrunch's report, Facebook ended the program on all Apple devices. The program, which began in 2016, is still running on Android.

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Facebook pulls app that was paying teens for access to their phones

Facebook has been paying users as young as 13 up to $20 a month in gift cards for almost total access to their phones, a practice it now says it will ...

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This Is Your Brain Off Facebook

The world's most common digital habit is not easy to break, even in a fit of moral outrage over the privacy risks and political divisions Facebook has ...

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Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has?

Facebook sells advertisers on its access to real people — 2.27 billion of them, a network that exceeds the populations of North America, South ...

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Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu.

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Apple hits back at Facebook and revokes a key license

Apple has revoked some developer privileges from Facebook following a TechCrunch report Tuesday that said Facebook was paying some users, ...

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Facebook paid users to track smartphone use: report

Facebook paid users, including teens, to track their smartphone activity as part of an effort to glean more data that could help the social network's ...

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Apple says it's banning Facebook's research app that collects users' personal information

The short version: Apple says Facebook broke an agreement it made with Apple by publishing a “research” app for iPhone users that allowed the ...

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Facebook convinced teens to sell their privacy for $20

It's the Faustian pact for the 21st century, except this time the devil is Facebook. As unearthed by TechCrunch's Josh Constine, the world's biggest ...

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Facebook shut down an intrusive data-gathering app it vigorously defended just hours earlier

Facebook has shut down an iOS app that installed intrusive data-gathering software on people's phones, just hours after vigorously defending the ...

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iOS app that collected teens' data

Facebook is shutting down an iOS app that gave the company access to users' private data in exchange for gift cards. TechCrunch on Tuesday ...

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Facebook paid 13-year-olds for access to all their internet data

Facebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone sent or received over the internet.

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Facebook Paid Teens to Access All Their Chats, Photos, Emails and Location

Another day, another revelation of Facebook's nefarious actions: Zuckerberg and company have been paying up to $20 per month to users ages 13 to ...

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Teens deserve more than $20 for giving all their phone data to Facebook

One popular criticism of Facebook and other tech platforms is that they never compensate users for their time, their data, or their contributions.

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Facebook Privacy Updates and Interest-Based Ad Model

Facebook announced that it is creating an independent board for reviewing appeals of Facebook's content policy. The board is intended to be ...

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Facebook is paying people to install an invasive app (Updated)

Update, 01/30/2019, 04:09 AM ET: Facebook has said its controversial research app will no longer be available on iOS, according to The Verge.

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Trust trumps money for Facebook with earnings due

Winning back trust is seen as the key priority for Facebook as the world's biggest social network readies its update on the final months of 2018 on ...

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Apple says it's banning Facebook's research app that collects users' personal information

Facebook is at the center of another privacy scandal — and this time it hasn't just angered users. It has also angered Apple. The short version: Apple ...

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Facebook paid teens to use research app that could monitor online activity and communication

For years Facebook has been paying some users $20 per month to install a research app on their phones that can collect intimate information about ...

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Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics

At a time when Facebook has been under increased public scrutiny like never before, the company is now hiring at least one of its fiercest antagonists.

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Facebook Shuts Down Controversial Program to Pay Apple Users for Data

(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. will shut down a program to pay iPhone users for sharing their personal data, following a report disclosing controversial ...

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Facebook investors await an update from Zuckerberg on how the company will make money ...

On Facebook's last earnings call in October, CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke excitedly about the company's growth opportunities in its Stories product, an ...

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Facebook paid 13-year-olds for access to all their internet data

Facebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone sent or received over the internet.

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Facebook Paid Teens to Access All Their Chats, Photos, Emails and Location

Another day, another revelation of Facebook's nefarious actions: Zuckerberg and company have been paying up to $20 per month to users ages 13 to ...

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Facebook shut down an intrusive data gathering app it vigorously defended just hours earlier

Facebook is pulling its iOS Research App following a TechCrunch report that revealed it paid people, including teenagers, to allow it to gather data ...

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Teens deserve more than $20 for giving all their phone data to Facebook

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Facebook is predicting if you'll kill yourself. That's wrong

The program was limited to the US, but Facebook has expanded it globally. It scans nearly all user-generated content in most regions where Facebook ...

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Facebook Earnings: What to Watch

REVENUE FORECAST: Facebook is expected to post revenue of $16.4 billion, according to FactSet, up about 26% from a year ago. That would mark ...

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Facebook Privacy Updates and Interest-Based Ad Model

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Facebook Paying Teens $20/Month to Install Data Harvesting VPN App on iPhones

Apple in August 2018 forced Facebook to remove its Onavo VPN app from the App Store, because Facebook was using it to track user activity and ...

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Facebook is pulling its iOS Research App following a TechCrunch report that revealed it paid people, including teenagers, to allow it to gather data ...

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Facebook Shuts Controversial Program to Pay Apple Users for Data

Facebook Inc. will shut down a program to pay iPhone users for sharing their personal data, following a report disclosing controversial details of the ...

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Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to track their digital lives

The news: An investigation by TechCrunch has revealed that Facebook has been using app beta-testing services Applause, BetaBound, and uTest to ...

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Facebook ending program that paid users to install app to monitor their activity

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Facebook Has Just Been Caught Spying On Users' Private Messages And Data -- Again

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Facebook paid teenagers to mine device data

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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

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Facebook Paid Teenagers $20 Per Month To Access Their Data: Report

Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" Virtual Private Network (VPN) that lets the company access user's data.

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Tasked with detailing their defenses against disinformation, Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Twitter, and ad biz trade groups on Tuesday turned in their ...

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Facebook: Dissident republicans Saoradh take legal action

A political party representing dissident republicans is taking legal action against Facebook. Saoradh claims the social media giant removed pages ...

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Facebook Is Paying Teens to Install a 'Research' App That Lets It Monitor Their Phones [Updated]

Facebook has stealthily launched a service similar to Onavo Protect, its vampiric psuedo-VPN that claims to protect users' privacy but actually collects ...

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Trust Trumps Money For Facebook As It Gears For 2018 Earnings

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Facebook got caught paying people $20 a month to let them spy on their phones (FB)

Another day, another round of uncomfortable questions for Facebook. The Silicon Valley social-networking giant has been paying teens and adults up ...

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Facebook sidesteps Apple ban by paying teens to harvest data from their phones

Facebook has been paying teens and adults to install a “social media research” app that monitors pretty much everything they do on their phones, ...

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Facebook paid teens to install an app to spy on their internet and phone use

Ever watchful of its competitors (and not so concerned about your privacy), Facebook has been paying people so it can keep tabs on their phone and ...

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Facebook reportedly pays users to install app that harvests their phone data

For the past three years, Facebook Inc. has been secretly paying users for installing an app that harvests all their phone and web activity, the ...

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Facebook paid teens $20 a month to access their browsing history and DMs

Some Facebook users have been giving the social network access to their phone activity in exchange for money as part of a research project since ...

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Facebook Paying Teens $20/Month to Install Data Harvesting VPN App on iPhones

Apple in August 2018 forced Facebook to remove its Onavo VPN app from the App Store, because Facebook was using it to track user activity and ...

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Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling "VPN" app

The "Facebook Research" VPN is an app that circumvents Apple's ban on certain kinds of surveillance by cloaking itself as a beta app and distributing ...

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Facebook Shuts Controversial Program to Pay Apple Users for Data

Facebook Inc. will shut down a program to pay iPhone users for sharing their personal data, following a report disclosing controversial details of the ...

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Facebook is paying teens $20 a month to track their digital lives

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Facebook will pull a controversial market research program from Apple's operating system after a report revealed that it likely ran afoul of Apple's data ...

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Facebook paid teenagers to mine device data

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Facebook Has Just Been Caught Spying On Users' Private Messages And Data -- Again

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Facebook will shut down its controversial market research app for iOS

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Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla report - What to know in markets Wednesday

Marquee mega-cap tech names face their moment of truth on Wednesday. Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba (BABA) is scheduled to report ...

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Facebook Is Paying Teens to Install a 'Research' App That Lets It Monitor Their Phones

Facebook has stealthily launched a service similar to Onavo Protect, its vampiric psuedo-VPN that claims to protect users' privacy but actually collects ...

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Facebook has been paying teens and adults to install a “social media research” app that monitors pretty much everything they do on their phones, ...

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Facebook paid teens to install an app to spy on their internet and phone use

Ever watchful of its competitors (and not so concerned about your privacy), Facebook has been paying people so it can keep tabs on their phone and ...

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Facebook reportedly pays users to install app that harvests their phone data

For the past three years, Facebook Inc. has been secretly paying users for installing an app that harvests all their phone and web activity, the ...

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Facebook paid teens $20 a month to access their browsing history and DMs

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Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling "VPN" app

The "Facebook Research" VPN is an app that circumvents Apple's ban on certain kinds of surveillance by cloaking itself as a beta app and distributing ...

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Facebook secretly pays users for complete access to their data

According to TechCrunch, Facebook has been paying teenagers around $20 a month to use a VPN app called "Facebook Research" that allowed the ...

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Facebook got caught paying people $20 a month to let them spy on their phones

Facebook has defended the program, but it raises questions about the social network's approach to user privacy, even in the wake of its string of ...

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Facebook is reportedly paying users to install an app that could collect all kinds of data from their ...

Facebook has been paying people in secret to install an app that allows the tech giant to collect data on how they use their smartphones, TechCrunch ...

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Report: Facebook repackages Onavo VPN as 'Research' app, paying teens $20/month to sneakily ...

Back in August, Apple asked Facebook to remove its Onavo VPN from the App Store, saying the app was in violation of its data collection policies.

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Report: Facebook paid people to gather data on usage habits

In its zeal to learn more about its users, Facebook secretly paid volunteers to install a "Facebook Research" app on their phones to monitor their usage ...

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Facebook pays users to sideload data-gathering VPN in apparent violation of Apple privacy policies

Facebook appears to be once again flouting Apple's developer guidelines regarding user privacy, as a report on Tuesday reveals the social media ...

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Report: Facebook has been paying some teens for permission to track everything they do

Already under fire for apparently tricking kids into spending their parents' money to play games on the social networking platform, Facebook now finds ...

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Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity

Facebook has run a program to collect intimate user data from paid volunteers for the past three years, according to a new report. TechCrunch ...

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Facebook cuts off independent political ad reviewers, claims security concerns

Analysis Facebook has cut off independent reviewers of political ads that run on its platform, citing security concerns. That's a claim the reviewers have ...

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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in ...

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Facebook (FB) Q4 Earnings Preview: Monthly Active Users, Revenue & More

At this point, most casual followers of the news understand that Facebook had a terrible 2018. FB stock tumbled following its Cambridge Analytica ...

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Facebook wants to integrate all its messaging services. How will that work?

Facebook is planning to integrate all of its messaging services, according to a New York Times report, a move that would allow users from each of its ...

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Senators have questions for Facebook over in-game payment policies

Recently unsealed court documents revealed that Facebook employees were aware children were running up massive tabs spending money on ...

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Facebook cuts off independent political ad reviewers, claims security concerns

Analysis Facebook has cut off independent reviewers of political ads that run on its platform, citing security concerns. That's a claim the reviewers have ...

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Facebook hires one of its biggest privacy critics to oversee WhatsApp privacy

Facebook has hired Nate Cardozo, formerly the top legal counsel at privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a prominent Facebook ...

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Senators ask Facebook why it tricked kids into spending parents' money

Two Democratic senators have asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain why the social network apparently "manipulated children into ...

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Facebook's Messenger Kids: Child advocates call for shutdown of app

A year ago, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other advocacy groups had asked Facebook to shutter its Messenger Kids, arguing ...

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Facebook accused by Brussels over 'patchy' attitude to fake news

Facebook and its new head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, stand accused by Brussels of taking a “patchy, opaque, and self-selecting” approach to ...

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14 Ways to (Literally) Boost Your Facebook Page ROI

Facebook marketers are in a constant state of change. Every week seems like a news feed fire drill. As a matter of fact, the infamous news feed might ...

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Nick Clegg squirms as Facebook apologist-in-chief. Sound familiar?

But the Facebook empire (which also includes Whatsapp and Instagram among other platforms) now has a broader reputational problem, too. Even if ...

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Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram ...

Facebook has been warned it can only borg its three messaging platforms in the European Union if it meets data protection rules. There are ...

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Facebook is giving some power back to its users — but very slowly

The first concerns Facebook's plan to build a kind of independent Supreme Court for content moderation. It's an idea that Mark Zuckerberg floated last ...

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Facebook bans smiling photo of seriously ill girl

A British mother was left horrified when Facebook banned a photo of her ... Her mother, Lindsey Bidwill, 40, started a charity on Facebook to raise ...

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Facebook trashed a report from Mark Zuckerberg's old classmate claiming that half of Facebook's ...

Mark Zuckerberg's former classmate Aaron Greenspan published a report last week claiming that more than half of Facebook accounts were fake.

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Five things to watch when Facebook reports fourth-quarter results

As politicians and regulators worldwide sharpen their focus on Facebook — raising concerns about privacy, security and misinformation — investors ...

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Facebook Is Creating an External Independent Board to Review Its Decisions on Content

Facebook is forming an external oversight board of independent experts to review the social network's decisions on whether content should be ...

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Facebook blocks third-party tools that collect information on political ads

Facebook has moved to block third-party ad transparency tools used by nonprofits and news organizations, although the company claims its efforts are ...

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How Google and Facebook Are Slowly Strangling Their Digital Offspring

If you live by Google and Facebook, you die by them. The loss of 1,000 mostly digital news jobs last week made that clear. The long death rattle of the ...

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Real Facebook Oversight Requires More Than a 40-Expert Board

When Facebook announced in November that it would launch an independent oversight board, questions arose about what that might look like and ...

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Facebook steps up efforts to moderate content and combat fake news

Facebook, the world's largest social network, has a long list of challenges. It ranges from election meddling and fake news to allegations of data ...

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Facebook Is Creating an Independent Board to Help With Tough Calls, But Questions Remain

Facebook is moving forward in its quest to create an external board that will have oversight over content moderation decisions on the platform, but first ...

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Ireland is questioning Facebook's plan to merge Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Facebook's plans to merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are drawing the scrutiny of European data watchdogs. The New York ...

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Commentary: Antitrust law should change Facebook and Instagram's relationship status

If you want to break up with Facebook, one of the few alternatives is Instagram but Facebook owns it, says an observer from NTU's Wee Kim Wee ...

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Facebook hires one of its biggest privacy critics to oversee WhatsApp privacy

Facebook has hired Nate Cardozo, formerly the top legal counsel at privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a prominent Facebook ...

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Facebook Earnings Preview

2018 was a tough year for Facebook, as it was under heavy scrutiny due to multiple privacy scandals, but things may finally be turning around for the ...

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Senators ask Facebook why it tricked kids into spending parents' money

Two Democratic senators have asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain why the social network apparently "manipulated children into ...

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Dem senators question Zuckerberg over report that Facebook tricked children into spending ...

on Tuesday sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about recently unsealed court documents that show Facebook ...

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Apple and Facebook have a better chance than Amazon of beating earnings expectations

Bespoke Finance Group studied three FANG-related stocks reporting earnings this week and found that Facebook has the best track record, with a 96 ...

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Facebook to Allow Communication Between Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Facebook is reportedly working on a solution for users on Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp to message each other between platforms. A report in ...

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Facebook Kids Game Claims Draw Scrutiny From Democratic Senators

Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg over reports that the social media giant ...

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Consumer groups are demanding Facebook kill its Messenger app for kids

That Facebook let kids spend thousands of dollars on games without their parents' permission is not altogether surprising. That the company referred ...

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Google, Facebook, Twitter must do more against fake news: European Commission

BRUSSELS: Google, Facebook , Twitter and Mozilla must do more to combat fake news as Europeans head towards an election or the companies will ...

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Lawsuit: Delegate blocked constituent from Facebook page

A West Virginia lawyer is suing a state lawmaker after being blocked from the delegate's Facebook page for "commenting in an adverse nature.".

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The Technology 202: Facebook's messaging plans spark privacy, antitrust concerns around the world

Ctrl + N. Facebook's plans to stitch together its three main messaging services have put the social network back in the glare of regulators around the ...

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Can Facebook Challenge Microsoft in This Next-Gen Market?

Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) both recently filed patents for new AR (augmented reality) devices that resemble regular ...

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Facebook under fire from senators, advocacy groups over its 'duping' of kid gamers

Facebook is facing pressure from lawmakers and advocacy groups after a report about its handling of kids who ran up huge bills from playing games ...

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Facebook's Messenger Kids: Child advocates call for shutdown of app

Facebook should shut down a messaging app aimed at children under 13 years old after a report surfaced last week that the social network duped ...

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Zuckerberg's Harvard Peer Claims More Than 50% Of Facebook Accounts Could Be Fake (Podcast)

Aaron Greenspan created the predecessor to Facebook at Harvard, where he was a peer with Mark Zuckerberg. His website, PlainSite, released a ...

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Facebook's plan to merge messaging services could be barred in the EU

Facebook's plans to integrate the messaging functions of Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger could be blocked in the EU by the region's privacy ...

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14 Ways to (Literally) Boost Your Facebook Page ROI

Facebook marketers are in a constant state of change. Every week seems like a news feed fire drill. As a matter of fact, the infamous news feed might ...

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Facebook Reports Earnings Tomorrow. Here's What to Expect.

Social media giant Facebook is scheduled to report fourth-quarter financial results after the market closes Wednesday. Facebook stock (FB) stock is ...

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Media layoffs bring heat on Facebook, Google

Critics are targeting Facebook and Google after a week of high-profile layoffs in the media industry, pointing to their dominance over internet ads as ...

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Child advocates to Mark Zuckerberg: 'Shut down Facebook Messenger Kids' immediately

Child development experts and consumer advocates are calling on Facebook to stop targeting children and to "immediately shut down Facebook ...

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Facebook Reports Earnings on Wednesday: 4 Key Things to Watch

Facebook (FB - Get Report) reports its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday after market close, and analysts polled by FactSet expect Facebook to ...

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Facebook accused by Brussels over 'patchy' attitude to fake news

Facebook and its new head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, stand accused by Brussels of taking a “patchy, opaque, and self-selecting” approach to ...

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Nick Clegg squirms as Facebook apologist-in-chief. Sound familiar?

But the Facebook empire (which also includes Whatsapp and Instagram among other platforms) now has a broader reputational problem, too. Even if ...

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Irish data watchdog to Facebook: Hang about, what's all this about a WhatsApp, Instagram ...

Facebook has been warned it can only borg its three messaging platforms in the European Union if it meets data protection rules. There are ...

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Facebook Earnings Could Be Huge — Even With All That Bad News

If there's anything to glean from Facebook's woes, it's to not count out the social-networking giant. Despite two years of horrendous headlines over its ...

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Facebook is giving some power back to its users — but very slowly

The first concerns Facebook's plan to build a kind of independent Supreme Court for content moderation. It's an idea that Mark Zuckerberg floated last ...

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An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor

For any aliens or recently arrived time travelers reading this, the company in question is Facebook, and its young leader Mark Zuckerberg, with whom ...

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Facebook and Google: How you can take back your life

Ever since the world wide web went public in 1993, we have traded our personal data in return for free services from the tech giants. Now a growing ...

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Court's Biometrics Ruling Poses Billion Dollar Risk to Facebook, Google

In the Facebook case, a judge agreed last year that an alleged lack of harm did not bar consumers from suing under BIPA, and that a proposed class ...

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Facebook Is Creating an External Independent Board to Review Its Decisions on Content

Facebook is forming an external oversight board of independent experts to review the social network's decisions on whether content should be ...

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Facebook's plan to merge Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram raises data privacy concerns

It may be early days for Facebook's plan to integrate Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, but one regulator already wants answers. The Irish Data ...

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Facebook bans smiling photo of seriously ill girl

Her mother, Lindsey Bidwill, 40, started a charity on Facebook to raise awareness about the condition. But when she went to upload a photo of her ...

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New Facebook VP calls for 'a better way to tax companies like Facebook'

Nick Clegg, Facebook's new vice president for global affairs and communication, on Monday called on governments to find "a better way to tax ...

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Facebook scoops up yet another Seattle-area office building, continuing blistering growth

Facebook has been linked to the Spring District for months, though neither the company, nor Spring District developer Wright Runstad has commented ...

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Facebook Board Has Template To Review Content Standards

The draft charter expands on a plan unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg last November to give an independent body some say over Facebook policy.

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Facebook blocks third-party tools that collect information on political ads

Facebook has moved to block third-party ad transparency tools used by nonprofits and news organizations, although the company claims its efforts are ...

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Facebook steps up efforts to moderate content and combat fake news

Facebook, the world's largest social network, has a long list of challenges. It ranges from election meddling and fake news to allegations of data ...

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Facebook Is Creating an Independent Board to Help With Tough Calls, But Questions Remain

Facebook is moving forward in its quest to create an external board that will have oversight over content moderation decisions on the platform, but first ...

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Nick Clegg: Facebook will do 'whatever it takes' to make its social platforms safer for young people

Facebook will make its social media sites safer for young people, Sir Nick Clegg pledged today. Sir Nick told the BBC that the social network was ...

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Google, Facebook ad sales seen rising even amid privacy woes

Concerns over privacy and regulation aren't hurting Facebook Inc. and Google where it matters – their multibillion dollar advertising businesses.

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How Google and Facebook Are Slowly Strangling Their Digital Offspring

If you live by Google and Facebook, you die by them. The loss of 1,000 mostly digital news jobs last week made that clear. The long death rattle of the ...

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Real Facebook Oversight Requires More Than a 40-Expert Board

When Facebook announced it would launch an independent oversight board last November, questions arose about what that might look like and how ...

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Facebook Shares More Details About the Content Oversight Board You'll Be Getting Pissed Off ...

Facebook, which turns 15-years-old next week, has yet to figure out how to moderate its increasingly destructive platform. In November, the company ...

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Ireland is questioning Facebook's plan to merge Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp

Facebook's plans to merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are drawing the scrutiny of European data watchdogs. The New York ...

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Commentary: Antitrust law should change Facebook and Instagram's relationship status

If you want to break up with Facebook, one of the few alternatives is Instagram but Facebook owns it, says an observer from NTU's Wee Kim Wee ...

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Facebook Lays Groundwork For 40-Member Content Oversight Board

As a follow-up to its promises last fall to keep working to become more transparent and improve policing of its platform, Facebook today released a ...

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Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

Facebook has made minor tweaks before that broke our tool. But this time, Facebook blocked the ability to automatically pull ad targeting information.

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Can Nick Clegg help Facebook grow up?

Another key part is explaining Europe to Facebook, and explaining Facebook to Europe. That's why he gave his first speech in Brussels, just yards ...

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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez rips into Facebook, Google, and Microsoft on climate

On Monday, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Chellie Pingree (D-ME) asked the heads of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to pledge their ...

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Facebook to create an independent board to monitor content

Facebook says it's building an external independent board with authority to rule what kind of posts are permissible on the social network. It's an ...

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Facebook drafts charter for content oversight board, but questions remain

Mark Zuckerberg talked about creating an independent body that would oversee Facebook's content decisions, and now that plan is taking shape.

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Facebook unveils plans for preventing spread of misinformation ahead of elections worldwide

Facebook on Monday unveiled new plans for preventing the spread of misinformation ahead of elections in multiple regions, including the European ...

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Apple, Facebook and other tech giants face critical week

Also on the docket: Facebook and Microsoft, which are scheduled to post their results on Wednesday, and Amazon, which reports its earnings on ...

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Facebook drafts a proposal describing how its new content review board will work

In November, Facebook announced a new plan that would revamp how the company makes content policy decisions on its social network — it will ...

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Facebook's messaging merger leaves lawmakers questioning the company's power

On Friday, The New York Times reported that Mark Zuckerberg is planning to integrate the underlying infrastructure of Facebook Messenger, ...

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EU data watchdog raises concerns over Facebook integration

Facebook's plan to merge WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger could raise significant data protection concerns, according to the Irish ...

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FTC gets back to work: Now, where were we? Break up Facebook and fine it $2bn, you say?

America's Federal Trade Commission has resumed work today, including its probe into Facebook, and is being urged by advocacy groups to hand the ...

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Facebook, Friendly Fraud And Friction

To be clear, it's not certain that anyone posed this question to Zuckerberg in those terms, but we do know how Facebook responded to that exact ...

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Facebook limits scrutiny of political advertising before Australian election

Transparency advocates have criticised Facebook for changes that make it harder for Australian not-for-profits and journalists to monitor political ...

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Facebook: Year Of The Comeback

2018 was one of the worst years on record for Facebook, with shares down about 25% for the year. The company was additionally mired in a number ...

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Facebook will start tracking political ads around the world

Facebook is rolling out versions of its political ad archive to international markets ahead of elections this year in Europe, India, Ukraine and Israel, the ...

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Facebook Watch Isn't Living Up to Its Name

Facebook wasn't adding many more users in key ad markets, so it needed to figure out how to wring more money from its existing audience. Although ...

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Facebook rubbished a report from Mark Zuckerberg's old Harvard classmate, which claims that half ...

Facebook has outright dismissed a report from Mark Zuckerberg's former Harvard classmate, which claimed more than half of the social network's ...

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Facebook's plan: One messaging service to rule them all

Facebook's decision to unite the technical guts of its three giant messaging services could not only cement its dominance of instant messaging but ...

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Facebook ending standalone "Moments" app

(NBC News Channel) -- Facebook announced it is shutting down Moments, the standalone mobile app designed to let users privately share photos ...

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