Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the chairman of the House Juduciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, on Tuesday, called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Facebook violated American antitrust laws.
White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Jr., was recently blocked from commenting by Facebook which has yet to provide an explanation for the action.
Facebook wants to boost local news articles, but claims there isn’t enough being produced, with one-third of Americans living in areas called “news deserts,” which the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have contributed to.
Tech giant Facebook suffered a service outage yesterday which resulted in its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services all crashing.
According to a recent report from the New York Times, tech giant Facebook is under criminal investigation for a number of data deals with other major tech firms. The New York Times recently reported that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton repeated his call to “delete Facebook” during an appearance at a Stanford University computer science class.
Ukrainian hackers reportedly used online quizzes to gain access to private Facebook user data and “inject unauthorized advertisements.”
Facebook was recently forced to restore Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns ads which called for the breakup of Big Tech.
Facebook temporarily blocked users from posting articles from finance and politics blog Zero Hedge this week, calling the blacklisting a “mistake.”
Following Mark Zuckerberg’s promises to make Facebook more privacy oriented, CNBC has published a scathing article pointing out why users have “no reason” to trust Zuckerberg with their data.
There are 15 million less U.S. Facebook users today than in 2017, with those between the ages of 12 to 34 constituting the biggest drop in users, according to a new study.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to shift the social media giant from “open and connected” to privacy-based, with a focus on keeping private messages secure. Not everyone is convinced, however.
Facebook has opened its users up to security risk, and potential theft, by allowing anyone on the platform to search for others using their phone numbers, which were only given to the social network for two-factor authentication security.
A recent article in the New York Times discusses Facebook and Telegram’s plans to introduce their own cryptocurrencies in the coming future.
A February 27 article in Breitbart News, based on a scoop from Project Veritas, highlighted a new concept, courtesy of our friends at Facebook: The Troll Twilight Zone. (Cue up the eerie music.)
According to a new investigation, almost a dozen iOS apps for iPhones and iPads are sending sensitive personal user data to Facebook.
A new report from TechCrunch reveals that a controversial Facebook research program was spying on more teens than the company initially admitted.
The Wall Street Journal published an article recently that examines why many users feel as if they’re still being tracked by Facebook despite the company’s recent privacy measures.
Indian Facebook contractors, who help moderate the social media giant’s content, find the job “stressful,” and “traumatic,” according to Reuters.
Facebook may just have stolen Twitter’s crown as the web’s shadiest shadowbanner.
Two lead Facebook engineers proposed the creation of a “Troll Twilight Zone” which would secretly glitch out the accounts of alleged “trolls” on the social network, to “confuse and demoralize them” around key election dates.
A former Facebook employee, who shared her discovery of a “deboosting” code found on the pages of popular conservatives, claimed she didn’t see the same censorship against “independent figures on the left,” like the Young Turks.
Recent insider leaks from Project Veritas reveal that Facebook actively works to censor even moderate conservatives, labeling a video by BlazeTV’s Lauren Chen as “destructive behavior.”
Recent Facebook insider leaks released by Project Veritas reveal that the social media giant’s demoting of conservative content isn’t just done by human moderators, it’s built right into the code of the website as a technical action called “deboosting.”
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit.
Some Facebook content moderators have resorted to using drugs while on break as an escape from the “misery” of seeing traumatic images on the platform, which have led some to develop symptoms similar to PTSD after they leave the social media giant.
Following recent reports that certain popular apps were sharing sensitive user information with Tesla, at least four of these apps have agreed to stop doing so.
A new study from the Wall Street Journal this week confirmed that third-party applications are providing users’ private information to Facebook, including sensitive health information like menstrual cycles.
Instagram has deleted a post made by Donald Trump Jr. about the unfolding events surrounding the case of actor Jussie Smollett.
A new report by UK lawmakers has called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out directly, accusing Zuckerberg of “contempt” for failing to appear a British parliamentary committee, and comparing the behavior of the Silicon Valley giant and its CEO to “digital gangsters.”
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.
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.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch brothers’ consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty by February 15.
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.
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 GOP establishment’s champion in the 2016 primaries, Jeb Bush, is praising President Donald Trump’s upgrade to the H-1B outsourcing program.
