According to the Washington Post, Facebook is in the process of negotiating with the FTC over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into Facebook’s privacy breaches.
Arab countries and Israel are talking about war with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Warsaw, as he filmed a shot near a skating rink for his Facebook page.
In a press release, Thursday, Instagram announced it would start banning “graphic” self-harm pictures uploaded to the platform.
Germany’s antitrust regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, is cracking down on Facebook over its collection of user data. The agency promises, “Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data.”
A new Facebook feature will roll out at the end of February will reveal to users why advertisers were given their contact information.
Facebook’s photo-sharing platform Instagram recently deleted a post of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Texas Bar registration form on which she states that she is an “American Indian.” The Platform called a photo of Warren’s registration “harassment or bullying.”
Social media giant Facebook reportedly plans to give employees bonuses if they help the company to achieve “social good.”
Facebook has banned four Myanmar-based groups, designating them as “dangerous organizations.”
The Mercury News published an editorial which criticizes Facebook and it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a recent scandal relating to an app which collected usage data from teenagers.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook-owned Instagram, admitted in an article for the Telegraph, Monday, that Instagram has failed to protect its users from posts which promote self-harm and even suicide.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) discussed their efforts to regulate Facebook and other social media platforms, which are now playing a larger role in Americans’ every day lives. Kennedy argued
Conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes is reportedly suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for “defaming” him, publishing “false, damaging and defamatory statements,” and attempting to “deplatform” him.
Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box” commemorated the 15th anniversary of Facebook by playing a 2004 interview show host Becky Quick conducted with then-college student Mark Zuckerberg. In the interview, Quick asked Zuckerberg what “The Facebook,” its then-given name, was. “It’s
The Internet once seemed poised to utterly destroy the establishment media. In an era where everyone with a phone and a social media account could reach an audience of millions, the need for professional journalists gatekeeping information seemed pointless.
Snopes announced it is ending a partnership with Facebook to fact-check information shared to the social media giant.
Following recent revelations that Facebook used an app to spy on teenage users for “market research” purposes, the social media giant has refused to apologize for the situation.
Twitter and Facebook both announced action against malicious accounts originating from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela on Thursday. They accused the banned accounts of spreading disinformation in an effort to influence the 2018 midterm elections, among other political objectives.
SWANSEA, S.C. (AP) — Police say a man launched into Mr. Miyagi’s famous crane kick pose before stealing a purse at a gas station in South Carolina.
The New York Times published an article, Wednesday, raising questions over the wildly different estimates of fake users on the Facebook platform published by Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
Social media giant Facebook posted a record quarterly profit this week despite a year filled with user data breaches and company scandals.
Socialist authorities in Venezuela began cutting off citizens’ access to social media this week in what is likely an attempt to stop any groundswell of support for legitimate President Juan Guaidó.
Facebook has reportedly been paying teenagers to install a “Facebook Research” VPN, which allows the social network company to “suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity,” while skirting Apple’s developer rules.
Facebook hired three privacy advocates on Tuesday amidst for greater scrutiny and regulation of the social media giant’s privacy practices.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) in chastising the nation’s largest technology companies for sponsoring a libertarian students’ conference in Washington, DC, because it included a panel discussion on the need for debate on climate change.
Facebook’s decision to merge Facebook with Instagram and WhatsApp has “implications for privacy,” according to a report.
Facebook recently stated that the company plans to tighten rules around political advertisements on the social media platform ahead of E.U. elections this Spring.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this week in which he comes to the defense of his scandal-ridden social media platform.
Following the announcement of mass layoffs at HuffPost and BuzzFeed amongst others this week, journalists blamed the Google and Facebook duopoly on digital advertising.
A Swedish man in his 70s faced a court in the town of Uddevalla this week after social justice activists reported him to the police for labelling Somali migrants “lazy” on social media.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview to have served a goat which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg killed with a “laser gun” and a knife.
