A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook claiming that the social network violates Illinois state law by holding biometric data of its users and keeping faces on file for recognition purposes.
Facebook censored an image of the iconic statue of the Roman god Neptune, claiming, “It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual.”
An Arkansas woman collapsed and died in front of her children while video livestreaming on Facebook.
European Union (EU) nations must set up a network of public agencies to remove ‘fake news’ from circulation and impose fines, Italy’s antitrust chief has said.
A group of nearly a thousand of Facebook’s top page owners are attempting to put a halt to the site’s increasing censorship.
A 38-year old Facebook engineer was recently arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from a 15 year old girl. Dov Katz was the head of computer vision at Oculus, the virtual reality hardware company purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $2
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Facebook on Tuesday to provide context about the historical, religious and legal Jewish connections to the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, lands baselessly declared occupied Palestinian territory in last week’s anti-Israel UN resolution.
Writing at The Hill, Selwyn Duke argues that Facebook and Google, who wish to act as arbiters of “fake news,” are partisan entities that will censor stories for having the wrong politics rather than facts, and their stranglehold on what information is delivered to the public should be broken:
Egypt has ordered the detention for 15 days of an Al-Jazeera journalist accused of incitement and fabricating news, a prosecution official said on Sunday.
Social media providers may soon be required to remove terrorist content, after a bill to that effect passed a Ministerial Committee for Legislation vote Sunday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has finalized a measure that asks foreign travelers to provide their social media accounts upon entering the country.
Alleged internal documents from Facebook appear to reveal “hate speech” guidelines which use formulas to determine what posts are deemed to be offensive content.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the description of Facebook as a media outlet, but added that it does not operate like a “traditional” media company.
The CEO of Snopes.com, the fact-checking website that was recently named as one of Facebook’s “fake news” arbiters, has been accused in divorce proceedings of appropriating company funds which he allegedly spent on expensive holidays and prostitutes.
Snopes fact checker and staff writer David Emery posted to Twitter asking if there were “any un-angry Trump supporters?”
Facebook’s new fact-checking partner Snopes seems to be almost solely staffed by left-wing employees. As previously reported, fact-checker Arturo R. Garcia complains about “white privilege” and doesn’t like Donald Trump, but he’s not the only extremist employee at Snopes.
Facebook’s new fact-checking partner Snopes is almost solely staffed by left-wing employees, some of whom have compared Trump supporters to “ethno-nationalists,” claimed that racism against white people is not possible, and praised national bans on “ultra-thin models.”
Facebook announced last week that the social media company would be teaming up with sources such as ABC News, Politifact, and Snopes to identify and eradicate “fake news” across Facebook. But each of the sources vetting the so called “fake news” have a track record of partisan politics, regularly pushing a left-leaning bias to their viewers.
The families of three victims from the jihad attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando have filed suit against Twitter, Google, and Facebook for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State.
Media Research Center president and conservative activist Brent Bozell says Mark Zuckerberg has assured him that Facebook will not be politically targeting conservative content as it launches its “fake news” initiative.
The founder of “Pantsuit Nation,” a private Facebook group for Hillary Clinton supporters, has signed a deal to turn some of the group’s top posts into a book — which has some fans asking if they were scammed.
Twitter, Facebook, and Google are being sued by the families of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting victims for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State.
In a recent livestream, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden stated that the solution to “fake news” was not censorship but critical thinking.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” recently partnered with the State Department to host a training workshop for reporters.
Before Facebook unveiled measures to monitor the spread of “fake news” on the platform, BuzzFeed editor Craig Silverman was working as an adjunct professor for the same media organization that created the fact-checking rules Facebook will use to flag and label fake news stories.
PolitiFact, which is part of a new grouping that will help Facebook flag “disputed” stories, last year rated as “Mostly False” a claim that the U.S. funded an election effort in Israel via the nonprofit One Voice aimed at defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Cyber-security firm InfoArmor claims that the data from Yahoo’s one billion user account hack was sold a number of times last August for $300,000 on the “dark web,” and that it is still offered for sale.
Snopes, which will now have the power to declare what news is or is not legitimate on the world’s largest online platform, almost exclusively employs leftists.
With Facebook’s announcement that they plan to deploy fact checkers to monitor their pages and determine what news is real and what news is fake, Cathy Young at The Hill asks the important question: “Who will watch the watchmen?”
BERLIN (AP) — German officials are stepping up their criticism of Facebook, saying the social network is doing too little to stop hate speech and could face stiff fines unless it deletes illegal content faster. In an interview published Friday,
A senior ACLU manager is welcoming Facebook’s decision to let picked political groups censor media organizations on its vast network.
PolitiFact rated just over 15% of Donald Trump’s campaign claims as true, while marking 51% of Hillary Clinton’s as such, according to PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman.
PolitiFact is being considered by Facebook as one of the social network’s partners in “fact-checking” and determining fake news, but a report from 2013 pointed out that the site overwhelmingly focuses on tearing apart arguments made by Republicans, marking them as false over 25% more than Democrats.
On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor Peter Schweizer said Facebook’s decision to regulate “fake news” is a “huge problem.”
TEL AVIV — The organization partnered with Facebook to help determine whether a certain story is “disputed” is financed by billionaire George Soros and a slew of other left-wing funders.
Facebook has announced it will introduce warning labels on stories they deem to be “fake news,” with the help of partisan “fact checking” organisations such as Snopes and PolitiFact.
When President-elect Donald Trump “magnanimously” met with $3 trillion worth of Silicon Valley tech CEOs that actively opposed his candidacy, he very publicly booted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as payback for alleged bias against his campaign.
With a general election looming next year, a range of German politicians are growing increasingly concerned over what they see as the spread of “fake news” and are considering forcing Facebook to delete posts they deem unacceptable, according to German media.
United Nations refugee agency UNHCR claims they have discovered people smugglers using Facebook to entice migrants to make the trip to Europe.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donated $1 million to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies to support a five-year journalism ethics program focused on verification, fact-checking and accountability in journalism.
