Tag: Facebook
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eBay’s billionaire founder helping whistleblower take on Facebook
One of her main arguments was that Facebook's business of selling ads based on engagement leads it to keep users on the service at all costs.
October 21, 2021 -
Facebook planning to change its name
A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates currently.
October 21, 2021 -
Zuckerberg called to testify before Senate following Instagram reports
The hearing focused on documents suggesting that Facebook knew Instagram was "toxic" for teenage users and the platform's algorithms could lead them to content that encouraged self-harm.
October 21, 2021 -
Facebook to pay $4.79 mn fine for discriminating against US citizens
Facebook is to pay the fine for discriminating in favour of foreign workers on H1-B visas and against American citizens and permanent residents.
October 20, 2021 -
Facebook claims hate speech has dropped by almost 50%
Facebook has claimed that the prevalence of hate speech on its platform has dropped by almost 50 percent in the last three quarters.
October 18, 2021 -
Bipartisan Bill, targeting Amazon, Facebook, to be introduced next week
Amazon, as per a Reuters investigation this week, is accused of using data from third-party sellers to determine products it would create.
October 16, 2021 -
Facebook pulls down 1,259 malicious accounts, Pages, Groups in Sept
Facebook has pulled down 1,259 accounts, Pages, and Groups from its main app as well as Instagram in September for manipulating public debate.
October 13, 2021 -
Time spent on rival apps grew 23% during mega Facebook outage
Snapchat saw the biggest increase as the average time spent by existing users climbed 23 percent week-over-week during the outage.
October 7, 2021 -
FB failed to flag India hate content as it lacked tools: Whistleblower
Frances Haugen's serious accusations against Facebook's "toxic" and "divisive" algorithms, alleged the social media platform did not take action on fear-mongering and hate content related to India because of "the lack of Hindi and Bengali classifiers".
October 7, 2021 -
Facebook should shed its opacity
The outage had an especially massive knock-on effect on individuals and businesses around the world that rely on Whatsapp to communicate with friends, family, colleagues and customers.
October 6, 2021 -
Zuckerberg breaks silence, says whistleblower claims ‘don’t make sense’
"The argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical," Zuckerberg said in the memo, which he also posted on his public Facebook page.
October 6, 2021 -
‘Buck stops with Mark’: Former Facebook manager criticizes company
"The company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the US government, and from governments around the world," Frances Haugen said while testifying to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee
October 6, 2021 -
Sorry for the disruption, says Zuck as FB, WhatsApp services restored
The services are back online on Tuesday after an outage that lasted almost six hours.
October 5, 2021 -
Facebook to enable users make group chats across Instagram, Messenger
"Within these cross-app group chats, users can continue to customise your chat experience with chat themes and custom reactions," Facebook.
October 1, 2021 -
Instagram is not toxic for teens, says Facebook
The Facebook Files focused on data suggesting that Instagram had an extremely damaging effect on teenagers, especially teenage girls
September 28, 2021 -
Instagram update fixes bugs for iOS 15, iPhone 13 users
Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has released an update for its iOS app in the App Store that fixes two annoying bugs.
September 25, 2021 -
FB says iOS 14 privacy changes ‘working as intended’
"Over the coming months, we'll continue to introduce new tools to further help with delivery effectiveness and measurement," Mudd wrote.
September 23, 2021