After suspending Cambridge Analytica from its platform in March, Facebook’s data management issues remained the lead social media news story throughout 2018. The company’s constant stream of user privacy challenges left little space for other social platforms to make waves — but, some still managed. Twitter put its focus on election integrity and performed a […]
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To say Facebook has had a tumultuous 2018 would be the understatement of the year. The company has faced a barrage of criticism for its mishandling of user data and unsecured platforms. This month, the New York Times reported it gave Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and other companies “far greater” access to user data than what
Mat Baxter, CEO of the ad agency Initiative, used his LinkedIn profile on Wednesday to criticize Facebook over its latest user data scandal. Baxter called Facebook’s behavior “egregious” and said he was advising clients to stay off the platform. In all of Facebook’s user data privacy and security issues this year, the CEO is one
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During Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was working on a Clear History feature that would allow users to remove browsing history from their accounts. There has been little news on how the feature would work or when it would be available since Zuckerberg first mentioned it more than
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Facebook has a history of miscalculating video ad metrics. In 2016, the company admitted it had been overstating the average duration of a video view time. The following year, it acknowledged over-charging advertisers for clicks on link-based mobile video carousel ads. As recently as October, Facebook video ad counts made the news again when a
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Facebook is rumored to be working on a connected TV device under the project name Ripley, reports Cheddar.com. The hardware, which includes a camera, is reported to work similar to Roku or Amazon’s Fire Stick, and could potentially stream video content sourced from Facebook Watch. According to the report, device will include a camera and
Facebook has confirmed it targets ads to users based on phone numbers they provide for two-factor authentication (the process used to protect a user account) and contact information taken from friends’ contact lists that can be matched to their accounts — even if they haven’t added that information to their accounts. The test. Gizmodo reporter
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Facebook announced on Friday it had discovered a security breach affecting almost 50 million user accounts. The company says attackers exploited a vulnerability within the “View As” feature — a setting that lets users see what their profile looks like to other users. Currently Facebook doesn’t know if the attackers have misused the hacked accounts
Facebook has announced it will begin proactively enrolling apps in the new app review process launched in July — meaning that even if a developer has not yet enrolled their app for review, Facebook will add it to the queue automatically. Developers will be notified via an alert in their app dashboards once the app
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Facebook says it fixed a bug on August 24 that had allowed users with both an app and a Facebook Ads account to access the Facebook Analytics data of other apps. 10 advertisers accessed the analytics data of 21 apps during the three weeks the bug was live. Though it affected a limited number of
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