The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly approved Friday a $5 billion settlement with Facebook following the social media giants’ handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This serves as the largest fine the FTC has given out for privacy violations; however, politicians and activists have said that this fine serves as a “bargain” for Facebook.
Facebook’s poker-playing artificial intelligence Pluribus has successfully beaten a dozen world-class Texas hold ’em players including Christ “Jesus” Ferguson in a recent match.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has stated that Facebook’s digital currency Libra cannot be allowed to operate until concerns about the project are addressed.
It’s okay to threaten people with violence and death on Facebook, so long as your target is a “dangerous individual” such as Paul Joseph Watson, according to the social network’s increasingly Orwellian set of rules.
A recent report outlines how social media firm Facebook carefully monitored posts on the platform about the company itself using a number of online tools. Bloomberg specifically notes in its report that the company used tools to “snuff” posts calling Mark Zuckerberg an alien.
Legendary Silicon Valley genius and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned Facebook users to find a way to get off the social media platform in a recent video.
Ice cream truck ownerJoe Nicchi has gotten fed up with self-proclaimed Instagram stars demanding free ice cream in exchange for promoting his company on their social media accounts. Nicchi is now telling these supposed “influencers” that not only will they have to pay for their ice cream, they’ll have to “pay double.”
Michelle Malkin warned of tech companies’ increasing political censorship ahead of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, offering her remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Users have been experiencing outages on Facebook and the other platforms owned by the company — Instagram and WhatsApp — on Wednesday, as reports of technical issues have spiked across the United States and in some areas of Europe.
Researchers have exposed a network of Facebook accounts used to push malware and viruses to hundreds of thousands of users over the course of five years.
Social media giant Facebook has promised that it will crack down on “misinformation” and “fake news” ahead of the 2020 presidential election cycle.
Facebook is reconsidering its policies on nude images after naked activists protested outside of Facebook’s New York offices.
The New York Times recently published an article outlining how a hacker infiltrated a popular grief support Facebook group, and the fact the company was slow to offer any help.
In a recent interview with CBS News, Instagram head Adam Mosseri assured users that Instagram isn’t listening in on people’s private conversations it’s just “dumb luck” that ads appear to be suspiciously accurate.
Anti-Brexit former Liberal Democrats leader and former deputy prime minister turned California big tech executive Sir Nick Clegg has admitted there is “absolutely no evidence” the Russian government influenced the EU referendum via Facebook.
The Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe at Facebook has been removed from the S&P list of ethical companies following a number of scandals surrounding the company.
Founded by a Trump supporter and acquired by Facebook (who fired that Trump supporter), Oculus VR has gone woke.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) stated in a recent interview that he believes Facebook is “expanding their monopoly” with its new Libra digital currency.
The New York state assembly has given Uber, investors, and business groups a huge extra supply of 250,000 illegal immigrant drivers, so depressing wages for Americans and legal immigrants who earn their wages by delivering people, cargo, and food to their destinations.
Facebook content moderators have reportedly broken their NDAs to expose the inner workings of monitoring content on the social media platform. Moderators described traumatic videos and imagery they were made to view on the platform, which alone has reportedly resulted in workplace chaos, physical illness, and the eventual development of PTSD.
Facebook plans to launch its own currency named Libra in 2020. The Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have unveiled more details about how the currency will operate, including a promise of privacy for its user, and the fact that the currency will be “governed” by the “Libra Association,” a group of Mark Zuckerberg’s fellow elites based in Switzerland.
Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee attacked the social media network recently, calling it a “chaos factory” trying to turn users into “data voodoo dolls.”
Facebook said it has boosted its advertising spending to increase its reputation amidst privacy controversies, censorship of conservatives and alternative voices, and antitrust investigations, according to a report released Friday.
Breitbart News senior tech reporter Allum Bokhari, who recently uncovered Facebook’s process of labeling its users “hate agents,” elaborated on his exclusive report and how he expects it to evolve in a Friday interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow. Bokhari pointed out the striking similarity between the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe and the Chinese government, which has implemented a “social credit system” in an effort to train its citizens to behave in a manner that pleases the communist regime.
Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is worried that internal emails could show that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was aware of the company’s questionable privacy practices.
Facebook reportedly collected the personal information of 187,000 users, including 4,300 teenagers, using a research app which has since been banned from Apple’s app store.
Facebook has deleted the popular “Natural News” Facebook page according to recent reports.
Many top 2020 Democrat presidential candidates have railed against America’s largest technology companies to garner populist support, but most of these top Democrats have also solicited donations from the very tech companies they have critizsed.
According to votes from Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting last week, 68 percent of outside investors want to see an independent chairman appointed in place of Mark Zuckerberg. Due to Zuckerberg’s chokehold on voting shares of the company, the investors’ vote will have no bearing on his role at the top of the Silicon Valley giant.
Activists took to the streets of New York outside Facebook’s offices, fully nude, to protest the company’s ban on nudity across its platforms.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security chief has been accused of sexual harassment and making racist remarks about Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan.
Cryptocurrency analysts have made poor predictions for the performance of Facebook’s new GlobalCoin cryptocurrency set to launch in 2020.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to ignore the Canadian Parliament’s subpoena to appear before its ethics committee, a move that could see Zuckerberg held in contempt of Parliament.
Facebook has rejected an advertisement for a screening of Dennis Prager’s new film No Safe Spaces over a charter school’s refusal to identify the event as “partisan.”
CrossFit criticized Facebook’s arbitrary censorship practices in a Thursday statement, announcing that the company “will no longer support or use Facebook’s services until further notice.” CrossFit will also stop using Facebooks Instagram and WhatsApp platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant Facebook reportedly plans to release its own cryptocurrency in 2020 called “GlobalCoin.”
The leader of a British political party and a candidate in tomorrow’s European elections are both included on Facebook’s list of potential “Hate Agents,” Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.
ACT for America founder and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel slammed Facebook for taking her words out of context and placing her on a list of potential “Hate Agents,” as Breitbart News exclusively reported Monday evening.
Lebanese-American conservative author and religion critic Brigitte Gabriel (born Hanan Qahwaji) is also on an internal list of “Hate Agents” maintained by Facebook, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.