For the second time in less than a month, Facebook is having to alert users that their accounts may have been negatively impacted because of a bug. According to an announcement on Facebook’s news blog, the company is notifying 800,000 Facebook and Messenger users that people they blocked may have been unblocked between May 29 […]
Facebook is looking for new ways to give users more control over the content they see in their News Feed. Today, the company announced it is testing a new “Keyword Snooze” feature that will allow users to snooze posts with selected keywords or phrases for a 30-day period. “If you choose to ‘snooze’ a keyword,
Facebook’s data security issues have turned into a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. After having to alert 14 million users that their privacy settings had been switched to public because of a bug earlier this month, Facebook confirms it sent app analytics reports to people outside of the intended app development companies. “This week, an alarmed
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Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company announced a number of new initiatives to reduce activity by bad actors on the site, from expanding its fact-checking operations to more countries to using machine learning to find foreign Pages that share
Facebook’s head of communication and policy, Elliot Schrage, is resigning after leading the company’s communications and policy teams for the past decade. According to a Facebook post on Schrage’s public page, he says it’s time for him to start a new chapter: As our community and global impact expanded, our challenge to strike a healthy
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Facebook is making changes to the way advertisers manage their Custom Audience lists to give users more transparency about why they see the ads that are displayed in their News Feed. Beginning July 2, advertisers will have to specify the origin of the audience’s information when uploading a Custom Audience list (the contact lists advertisers
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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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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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