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Facebook removes age, gender and ZIP code targeting for housing, employment, credit ads

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Facebook advertisers promoting housing, employment or credit offers will no longer be able to target ads by age, gender or ZIP code. The new ad policy applies to advertisers targeting U.S. users on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The company said Tuesday that it will also launch a tool for users to search and view all […]

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Marketers say they’ll adapt to a changing Facebook

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Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the company’s coming privacy-focused, unified messaging and social networking platform. The CEO said, in the coming years, Facebook plans to rebuild its services and platforms around the following six principals: private interactions, encryption, reduced permanence, safety, interoperability and secure data storage. “People increasingly also want

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Facebook pulls Research app after backlash over use of teen data

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Facebook has removed a controversial app, dubbed Facebook Research, from the iOS app store after coming under fire for essentially paying teenagers to let the company spy on their mobile activity. The story on Tuesday by TechCrunch found that since 2016 the company has been paying users, mostly teens, to download a VPN app that gives the

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Facebook’s year of apologies (to marketers)

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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

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50 million Facebook user accounts hacked

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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

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Attorneys General take aim at tech companies with potential multi-state action

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In Washington DC Tuesday, there was a meeting of state Attorneys General about big technology companies and their impact on the market and public discourse. Originally the meeting was called to investigate alleged anti-conservative bias on social media; however it quickly evolved into a wider discussion of multiple issues, including antitrust, consumer privacy and data

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Facebook job ads excluded women, ACLU complaint says

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Facebook has been exploited in the past for discriminatory ad targeting, specifically in the housing market. Now the Communications Workers of America and the ACLU are alleging that some employers used the platform to discriminate against women. The parties filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Facebook and 10 employers alleging

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Facebook, Twitter grilled by Senate committee; Dorsey says company may label bots

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via C-SPAN Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday appeared before a Senate committee to face questions over their companies’ failure to keep bad actors off of their platforms, allegations of bias against conservative content, and what they’re in fact doing to address lawmakers’ concerns. Google, which was also asked to testify, chose not

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Instagram fights back against fake accounts & bad actors with new safety tools

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After last week’s announcement that 652 Pages, accounts and groups had been removed from Facebook and Instagram, Facebook’s less popular (but quickly growing) app is now getting its own set of safety tools. In the coming weeks, Instagram will be rolling out three new security measures designed to safeguard itself against fake accounts and create

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Facebook, Twitter & Google take down malicious content originating from Iran

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Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s security teams are staying busy. All three companies reported this week that they had removed malicious items from their platforms that had originated in Iran — Facebook took down 652 Pages, groups and accounts, Twitter removed 284 accounts and Google disabled a total 42 YouTube channels, 16 Google+ accounts, six Blogger

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