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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Instagram is demoting posts to hide offensive and sexually explicit content
Instagram will now start demoting content it feels that is inappropriate that includes sexually suggestive content or offensive ...
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Facebook's AI prevents deceased users' profiles from popping up in your suggestions
It's hard to cope with the loss of a loved one, and it's harder when their profile pops up on Facebook as a suggestion, as ...
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Facebook data leak (yeah, another one) allegedly exposes passwords, likes, etc
Flip that board that says "It's been _ days since we found a massive pile of unsecured Facebook data" right back to zero, and get ready to reset your passwords again just to be safe. Security researchers discovered hundreds of millions of records on publicly-accessible Amazon cloud ...
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Facebook wants to take another crack at news with a dedicated tab
Facebook's ready to give news distribution another go with a dedicated tab. In a conversation with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is thinking about introducing a news tab later this year. As part of his yearly goal, the Facebook supremo had ...
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WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections
WhatsApp has launched a tip line in India to which you can send forwards, rumors, and suspicious-sounding messages and have ...
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Facebook announces a long-overdue transparency tool for News Feed
Over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm, calling for increased government regulation for internet ...
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Facebook is cracking down on fake accounts before India's election
The first phase of the Indian Assembly’s election kicks off on April 21, but the increase in propaganda has already begun. Facebook has announced it’s removed numerous pages and accounts that used practices like fake accounts and cross-posting to increase their spread. In a ...
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How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s now into blogging. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the Facebook CEO asked governments around the world to consider introducing more transparent rules for moderating content on the internet. Zuck said that the authorities need to upgrade regulations ...
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How to add Facebook events to your Google Calendar
Facebook events are one of the few good things about the social network, and now with this guide you can import them
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Facebook's reportedly been storing millions of user passwords in plain text since 2012
Facebook revelaed last night that it stored password of millions of users in plaintext. What's more shocking is that this ...
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How Facebook plans to use machine learning to wipe out revenge porn
Facebook is going to use machine learning to weed out non consensual intimate photos of users even before any of them reports ...
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Why can't Facebook keep problematic videos off its platform?
Facebook said it removed some 1.5 million video clips of the NZ attack from its platform. But couldn't it do more to prevent ...
