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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How Facebook and Google are using algorithms to predict your next thought
The big tech companies have not only gotten better at predicting your next move, but also in understanding you well enough ...
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Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying
Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling content, it plans on developing AI with human level intelligence to do the job. An official company blog post today, on the subject of content moderation, ...
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Facebook’s Secret Crush feature wants to help you find friends who are, like, totally obsessed with you
Facebook just added a feature that will let you list all the friends you have crush on. This feels like it's going to go ...
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How Facebook plans to keep your data private while opening it up to researchers
Facebook has outlined a differential privacy-based approach that it expects will protect users' confidentiality while simultaneously ...
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Can we trust Ireland to enforce GDPR on big tech?
GDPR is complicated business; even people like me who try to keep up with all its developments struggle to understand this mammoth set of European regulations and its effects. I believe one of the main reasons for that is we’ve yet to see a proper GDPR case being brought against ...
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Facebook sets aside billions to pay its way through privacy issues
Facebook said it has set aside $3 billion in connection with an ongoing FTC investigation into its privacy abuses set off ...
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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now - but you may have already heard it
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just launched a podcast the same day that his company issued its latest quarterly earnings report. ...
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WhatsApp is failing to stop the spread of child abuse videos
Facebook-owned WhatsApp continues to be a hotbed for sharing sexual abuse videos in India, according to fresh findings from ...
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Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized
Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business ...
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Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without permission
Welcome to the newest episode of "Facebook screws up daily." it uploaded contact lists of over 1.5 million people since 2016, ...
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Facebook may soon let you chat with friends on mobile without Messenger
It's been years since Facebook booted out the messaging functionality from it's main app to boost Messenger, but now it might ...
