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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Facebook again admits to wrongly sharing user data with third-party apps
Facebook has admitted that it mistakenly gave around 5,000 developers unauthorized access to user profile due to a bug in ...
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Zuck thinks boycotting advertisers will return to Facebook — and he could be right
More than 500 advertisers are boycotting Facebook for not controlling hate speech. But Mark Zuckerberg is not worried. In an internal Facebook meeting, the company CEO said that “my guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough.” The Information got ...
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Facebook will label politicians' posts that violate its policies after all
Social media companies have always struggled to find the right balance between enabling free speech and while moderating inappropriate content. But since Donald Trump entered the White House, this debate has taken on a complicated new layer: Should private companies censor the President ...
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Facebook will warn you about sharing articles older than 3 months
It's happened to all of us. We see a friend or relative share a seemingly topical bit of news with a clicky headline on Facebook, only to open the link and find out it was written three years ago and contains outdated information. Sighs. Thankfully, that should soon happen a lot ...
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WhatsApp's new payments service is suspended in Brazil
WhatsApp's newly launched payment service in Brazil is under threat. On Tuesday, The country's central bank ordered Visa and Mastercard to shut down the project with the Facebook-owned chat app, citing concerns over its anti-competitive nature. Brazil was the second country after ...
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Facebook gives US users power to turn off political ads
Facebook today said that it'll let users mute political ads ahead of the US Presidential elections in November. The announcement came as part of the launch of the social network's voting information center, which will help more than 4 million US citizens with voter registration. The ...
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Instagram is inspecting its algorithm and policies for bias against black users
With the Black Lives Matter movement in focus, a lot of tech companies are reviewing their policies to make sure black voices don't get drowned out. Yesterday, Instagram's CEO, Adam Mosseri, said the company is inspecting its recommendation algorithm and policy to determine if it ...
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Instagram's algorithm prioritizes 'scantily-clad' photos, study finds
Researchers from AlgorithmWatch and the European Data Journalism Network found that Instagram's algorithm makes sexy photos ...
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WhatsApp launches payments in Brazil, with India still stuck in test mode
WhatsApp announced today that it's launching the payment feature in Brazil. The feature is powered by Facebook Pay technology ...
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Am I queer enough? How to find your Pride online
Welcome to TNW Pride 2020. We’ll be covering tech-related Pride stories and putting a much needed spotlight on the LGBTQPIA+ ...
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Facebook axes Workplace feature that blocked trending posts containing 'Unionize'
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are under a lot of pressure for letting US President Donald Trump's inflammatory posts stay ...
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You could get sued for embedding Instagram posts without permission
If you have a news site or blog, with articles that have embedded Instagram posts, the post owner can sue you for breaching ...
