The father of a vulnerable girl exposed to sexual exploitation when she was 11 has sued Facebook for failing to enforce rigorously its age restrictions. The social network hosting company reached a confidential settlement before a scheduled two week trial was
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Facebook to do more against racist comments and hate posts, in comments due to be published in a regional newspaper on Friday. Germany is expecting a record-breaking influx of refugees this year.
At around 10PM on Labor Day Sunday, I posted a coding problem to the popular software developer forum, Stack Exchange.
When Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop reached out to Comcast to run commercials for “family night” at their gun range, they were told they could only run the commercials if they did not use the word “gun” and if they removed the phrase “family night.” At the same time, Facebook informed Chris Williamson—owner of Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop—that they would not let him put up posts on the “family night” event because his business sells guns.
The Egyptian Religious Endowments Ministry suspended Sheikh Mahmoud Maghazi after he allegedly said, “Prayer is better than Facebook,” during a traditional Islamic prayer. The original line says, “Prayer is better than sleep.”
On the whole, the candidates’ websites seemed surprisingly timid, even backward, as if the designers were primarily afraid of (a) soaking up too much bandwidth from visitors, and (b) leaving some important scrap of text off the main screen, for fear that visitors would explore no further. These are both very last-generation concerns. Seriously, folks, it’s 2015. A dash of animation, such as Fiorina and Chris Christie offer, will not cause anyone’s computer to chug.
Facebook has blocked a Christian-themed advertisement for violating its speech rules
A 7th grade Texas middle school assignment that went viral on social media this week was determined to be fake. The storyline generated about students taking an allegedly invasive student survey was not true — it did not happen.
“So now we are going to blame Twitter or we are going to blame Facebook … well heck, I don’t think that’s the problem,” Chris Christie says. “The problem is, the stuff we put on it. The stuff we put on it is a problem, you know who does that? Someone who takes their device out and types it in. It doesn’t get there by itself.” Christie pointed out that more and more people were frustrated that there was no longer any accountability for one’s actions – especially politicians.
Saying he was “sick of political correctness gone amuck,” an Oklahoma state representative posted the words “anchor baby” to his Facebook page 32 times in a row in order to make a statement.
As much as global financial concerns are going to hit tech companies harder than other sorts of enterprise, so too will their own lack of ambition. The ugly truth is that Silicon Valley has largely given up trying to fix big problems and has retreated into photo-sharing apps and productivity tools.
Detectives allegedly discovered more than 26,000 pages of conversations and texts between a 19-year-0ld Pico Rivera man and 21 underage Hispanic girls in multiple states.
America Leads — a Super PAC supporting Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) presidential campaign — was trolling fellow GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s event in New Hampshire, attempting to get personal information from her supporters, according to a Breitbart source.
Amazon views its work environments as a tough response to slack conditions elsewhere in the labor force, encouraging excellence and superior effort from its workers by setting standards it proudly describes as “unreasonably high.” Many horrified readers thought the NYT article described brutally exploitative conditions covered by corporate happy-talk about achievement.
Social networking website Facebook has apologised to the nationalist Britain First group after removing a critical post about ISIS involving a roll of toilet paper made up of the black flag used by the terrorist group. Earlier this week, Britain
In the immigration plan he released Sunday, Donald Trump slammed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for making the path easier for immigrants to land jobs at high-tech firms.
The New York Times caused a stir in Silicon Valley with a viral article claiming that Amazon.com brutally exploits its white collar workers with unforgiving management practices. The investigation caused such an outcry that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos personally responded with an email to employees assuring them that “callous” management practices wouldn’t be tolerated.
On Friday, a black woman from East Point, Georgia who used a Facebook pseudonym to post threats of killing “at least 15” white policemen was indicted on charges of making terroristic threats and inciting a riot.
Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.
One young mother near Philadelphia decided to pose online breastfeeding two boys, but only one of them was her son.
The top social media moment during the first GOP primary debate was between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on their disagreement over the NSA and the Patriot Act, according to Facebook.
CLEVELAND, Ohio: The first GOP presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News and Facebook takes place on Thursday, but ahead of the debate Facebook broke down the key political and policy issues voters are talking about on the social media website.
CLEVELAND, Ohio: Several of the GOP presidential candidates have posted on Facebook a question they would like to hear fellow candidates answer during Thursday’s Fox News debate.
The FBI on Monday announced terrorism charges against 23-year-old Harlem Suarez of Key West, Florida, who portrayed himself online as a member of ISIS and allegedly wanted to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. Toward this end, law
On Thursday, Facebook Inc., unsatisfied with its global access, announced it has built a full-scale drone to fly between 60,000 feet above ground at night and 90,000 feet during the day to allow the entire world to use Facebook.
