Our coverage of all things Facebook. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and several fellow students in February 2004, the social network has grown to more than a billion users and currently owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Telcom companies are using Facebook fake news against each other
Facebook uncovered another fake news campaign, this time apparently started by telcom companies in Southeast Asia to discredit ...
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YouTube claims to share billions in ad money with creators, unlike Instagram
Google reported YouTube's earnings for the first time in a decade, and is quick to remind everyone that the "majority" of ...
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Facebook refused to remove a business Page dedicated to a woman's butthole
Buzzfeed yesterday published an article about a woman who'd spent the past five years trying to get Facebook to take down a Business Page dedicated to her butthole. She was told several times the page didn't violate the social network's community standards, but shortly after Buzzfeed ...
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Facebook will cough up $550 million to settle facial recognition case
Remember the time when Facebook used to automatically tag you in photos uploaded by your friends using facial recognition? Now the company has agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for using the technology in Illinois. A report by the New York Times noted ...
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How to use Facebook's 'Off-Facebook Activity' tool
Facebook's finally rolled out its Off-Facebook tool to everyone. Here's how to use it to manage what other sites are sharing ...
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Report: Tinder’s new panic button is sharing your data with Facebook and YouTube
A Gizmodo report found that Tinder's latest safety feature, 'Panic Button,' shares user data with third-party ad-tech companies ...
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How to set up a birthday fundraiser on Facebook
Facebook lets you set up a charitable donation drive during your birthday, taking advantage of everyone suddenly checking ...
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Sundar Pichai offers a cryptic warning against over-regulating AI
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, wants the world's governments to regulate artificial intelligence. As TNW's Ivan Mehta wrote earlier today, the big tech boss published an opinion piece in the Financial Times over the weekend where he says: Now there ...
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Facebook has reportedly shelved its plans to show ads on WhatsApp
Good news! Facebook is dropping its plans to show ads on its popular messaging service WhatsApp. According to a report by ...
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Facebook now sends you a notification when you log in to third-party sites
Facebook today revealed a new login feature that actually tells you info you're volunteering. Considering how much info Facebook ...
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Facebook is reportedly planning to launch TikTok competitor in India by May (Update)
Update (11/01/2020): A Facebook spokesperson said in an email statement to TNW the company has no plans to launch Lasso in ...
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Facebook won’t budge on fake political ad censorship
Facebook today released a blog post detailing its ad policy, in which it essentially refused to bow to pressure to regulate ...
