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 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 ...
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Facebook vows to crack down on 'misleading' deepfakes
Facebook today announced it will ban misleading manipulated media -- including Photoshopped images and deepfakes. This announcement comes right on time, ahead of the upcoming US presidential elections this year. The declaration of the new policy comes just before Monika Bickert, ...
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Facebook is reportedly working on its own OS now
Facebook is building its own OS so it can finally ditch Android for its own hardware products (including VR headsets and ...
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267 million Facebook users' data has reportedly been leaked
A database containing more than 267 million Facebook users' data was reportedly found exposed online, says Comparitech and ...
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Facebook just bought a cloud gaming service
Facebook this week revealed it'd acquired PlayGiga, a Spanish cloud gaming service. What they plan to do with it is anyone's guess. PlayGiga is a Madrid-based company that purports to have "a cost-effective cloud gaming solution with excellent user experience, latency reduced to ...
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Instagram influencers can no longer promote vaping, guns, or cigarettes
Facebook today revealed its putting the kibosh on branded content from its influencers -- specifically, those posts which promote guns, vaping, and tobacco products. This is the first time Instagram's ever tried to restrict what its content creators can be paid to promote. The ...
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Your annual reminder that Facebook tracks you even with location settings turned off
Facebook told US senators it tracks users' location even after they've turned those settings off. Don't be shocked, we learned ...
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Researchers were about to solve AI's black box problem, then the lawyers got involved
AI has a “black box” problem. We cram data in one side of a machine learning system and we get results out the other, but we're often unsure what happens in the middle. Researchers and developers nearly had the issue licked, with “explainable algorithms” and “transparent ...
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FTC might put the brakes on Facebook’s plans to merge messaging apps
A new report suggests the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) might file an injunction against Facebook, to keep it from integrating ...
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Facebook wants to use your Oculus data for ads because of course it does
Oculus this week revealed it's rolling out a batch of new social features tied to Facebook. While the features themselves ...
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Captain Obvious FTC rules Cambride Analytica 'engaged in deceptive practices'
In today's edition of "Well, duh!" news, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook ...
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Even Facebook's employees don't trust it with their financial info
Facebook is not exactly a platform that's engendered a lot of trust over the last couple of years. Its users have shown an ...
