If you’re keeping a list of Facebook apologies for 2018, you can now add “apologizes for accidentally setting 14 million users privacy status to public without their knowledge” to your list. From May 18 to May 22, Facebook accidentally changed the privacy setting for status updates for 14 million users to public from whatever previous […]
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LJZ / Shutterstock.com Raise your hand if Facebook shared user data with you — because the list keeps growing. Days after learning the company had shared user information with at least 60 different device makers — including Apple, Samsung, Blackberry, Microsoft and Amazon — more names from that list have surfaced. The list includes Chinese
Facebook is under fire once again for mishandling user data, this time charged with sharing information with at least 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, HTC, Microsoft and Samsung. Going all the way back to 2007, the company created partnerships with various device makers that allowed for private data channels between the device-maker companies
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Facebook is removing its Trending news topic section starting next week, along with products and third-party integrations that rely on the Trends API. According to Facebook’s research, people found it to be less useful over time — and the company said that content in the Trending topics section accounted for fewer than 1.5 percent of
Facebook is now enforcing its new policies for political and issue-related ads. Announced last month, the new rules require all advertisers running political or issue ads on the platform to verify their identity and location. US election and issue ads will have to be clearly labeled and will include “Paid for” information to identify the
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Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the EU Parliament on Tuesday to address the company’s mishandling of user data, Facebook published three separate announcements covering its current efforts to stop the spread of fake news, fight misinformation campaigns and protect user safety. The overlap between these three issues has been a focus for Facebook
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Facebook has released its first-ever transparency report, outlining the amount of content it has identified as breaking Community Standard rules between October 2017 and March 2018. According to the data, Facebook took action against a majority of the offensive content before it was reported by users. The report is part of its Community Standards initiative
We’re less than two months out from Facebook’s infamous announcement that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data. Since then, news headlines about the company — and its haphazard management of user information — have looked like a PR nightmare from the sidelines, but the company’s Q1 revenue numbers tell a much different
As the dust settles from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica crisis, the company is putting in motion a reorg that impacts its product and engineering teams and is reassigning a number of current executives to new leadership roles. Per internal communications sent to Facebook employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has divided the company’s product and engineering teams into
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Facebook kicked off its F8 Developers Conference Tuesday with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “This has been an intense year. I can’t believe we’re only four months in,” said Zuckerberg, who was no doubt referring in part to the firestorm since Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data. He moved on, offering a
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