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• Facebook's Trump ban could be lifted by its Oversight Board

  Donald Trump's "indefinite" ban from Facebook will be reviewed by the company's newly-formed Oversight Board.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook’s AI for describing photos in your feed is way smarter now

  The internet is not easy to navigate for people with visual imparities. While there are screen reader applications to help ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WhatsApp delays it privacy policy update by three months — but what's the point?

  After a ton of backlash and user exodus, WhatsApp is delaying the rollout of its controversial privacy policy by three months. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Signal has better privacy policies than WhatsApp or Telegram — here’s why

  WhatsApp made one of its most controversial changes to its privacy policy last week. The new policy gives the app more freedom ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here’s how to delete or deactivate your Facebook account

  Social sites walk a fine line between being handy and consuming your life. Facebook make it tricky to delete your account ...

  • Cara Curtis

• After Parler's troubles, Donald Trump Jr. wants Elon Musk to build a social network

  After big tech firms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube, banned Donald Trump, the outgoing president ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here’s what that WhatsApp privacy policy pop-up means for you

  If you use WhatsApp, you probably spotted a pop-up on your phone sometime in the last 24 hours, suggesting that the service ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Snapchat joins Twitter and Facebook in blocking Trump’s account amidst Capitol violence

  Snapchat is now the latest platform to block President Donald Trump's account after Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. All these ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook is reportedly developing AI to summarize news — what could go wrong?

  Facebook has been trying to get a foothold in the news space for many years. Last year, the company launched a dedicated ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• FTC announces lawsuit against Facebook for 'illegal monopolization'

  The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced its lawsuit against Facebook alleging the company has formed an illegal ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Zuckerberg sold $280M worth of Facebook stock in the past month

  Zuckerberg began offloading shares on November 9, and he's now generating nearly $12.10 million every day on average by selling ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook said It would ban holocaust deniers. Instead, its algorithm provided a network for them

  Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the ...

  • The Markup

• Targeting Trump fans, QAnon ad slips through Facebook’s filters

  Despite Facebook’s efforts to tamp down on the fringe conspiracy QAnon movement, its backers are still finding ways ...

  • The Markup

• Facebook's new 'Drives' help collect food and clothing for people in need

  Facebook today announced a new feature called Drives. No, that's not a 'drive' in the sense of yet another cloud storage ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook patches a Messenger bug that allowed others to snoop on your calls

  We often joke around that hackers or government agencies are listening to our calls. Facebook just patched a bug that would've ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Messenger and Instagram's 'Vanish Mode' makes chats self-destruct with a swipe

  It was just last week that Facebook introduced ephemeral messages in WhatsApp that disappear in seven days. Now the company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook and Twitter tried to stop voter intimidation... and they failed miserably

  Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new. But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter, ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook charged Biden a higher price than Trump for campaign ads

  When President Donald Trump wanted to reach out to older Arizona voters in August with the message "The RADICAL Left ...

  • The Markup

• Facebook is subverting democracy again — and it's doing it on purpose

  As the US presidential election polling day draws close, it’s worth recapping what we know about how Facebook has been ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook's chief AI scientist says GPT-3 is 'not very good' as a dialog system

  A new study on GPT-3's potential uses in healthcare suggests some expectations for the model are wholly realistic.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook India’s controversial policy chief quits — will it now stop hate speech from politicians?

  Facebook India's controversial policy director, Ankhi Das, has left the company in order to pursue a career in public service. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook’s new AI model translates 100 languages — without going through English first

  Facebook has open-sourced the first AI model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without first translating ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• You influence recommendation algorithms just as much as they influence you — here's how

  Have you ever watched a video or movie because YouTube or Netflix recommended it to you? Or added a friend on Facebook from ...

  • The Conversation

• What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election

  In an election year that seems to be filled with more drama, public health crises, protests, natural disasters, scandals, ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Facebook is finally banning anti-vax ads from its platform and Instagram

  In an effort to curb health misinformation amidst the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook will ban ads discouraging vaccines and ...

  • Mix

• The future of AI depends on 9 companies — if they fail, we’re doomed

  If artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, it probably won’t be through killer robots and the ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook bans Holocaust denial posts, reversing original stance

  Facebook finally adds Holocaust denial and distortion to its list of banned topics, two years after Zuckerberg infamously ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook now has a loyalty program for its bug bounty hunters on its platform

  Facebook launched its bug bounty program in 2011. Now, the company is bringing an intriguing update to it with a loyalty ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Data: Trump is more engaging on Facebook now than he was in 2016

  Facebook was the election battleground that helped fuel Donald Trump’s journey to the White House in 2016, and the president ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook and Instagram just banned all QAnon accounts, "even if they contain no violent content"

  Back in August, Facebook announced it would begin banning posts related to the QAnon conspiracy movement that supported acts ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook merging Messenger and Instagram chat only benefits Zuckerberg — not you

  Facebook Messenger and Instagram’s direct messaging services will be integrated into one system, Facebook has announced. The ...

  • The Conversation

• Trump's 2016 campaign targeted ads to deter 3.5M Black Americans from voting, leaks reveal

  Team Trump reportedly worked with Cambridge Analytica to dissuade millions of Black voters by targeting them with anti-Hillary ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Remember FarmVille? It's officially shutting down in 3 months

  FarmVille, once the most popular game on Facebook (and maybe the world), is shutting down on December 31 along with all other ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• British grannies, please stop with the QAnon memes on Facebook

  A headteacher in Stoke-on-Trent told me that, alongside ensuring a COVID-safe return to school for her pupils this September, ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook’s VR isn’t about gaming, it’s about data — surprise, surprise

  Facebook has announced the latest version of its successful standalone virtual reality (VR) headset, the Oculus Quest 2. ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook removes Chinese network of fake accounts that used AI-generated faces

  The operation reportedly used AI-generated Facebook profile photos to spread government propaganda about Beijing's interests ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook announces the Oculus Quest 2, starting at $299

  Facebook announced at today's Connect AR/VR event that it's releasing a new VR headset: specifically, an updated version ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook algorithm 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content, study finds

  Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a counter-extremist group, found Facebook’s algorithm recommends ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook test auto-shares Instagram Stories to your news feed

  It didn't take long for Facebook to copy Snapchat's Stories format and begin to use it throughout its social networks. Unfortunately ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook doesn't fix its shit until there's a controversy — that needs to change

  Earlier today, Facebook removed the account of T. Raja Singh, a leader of India's ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), for ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Russia's most notorious troll farm reportedly used deepfakes to push a fake news outlet on Facebook

  Facebook and Twitter say they've removed a network of accounts behind a fake news outlet run by fictitious journalists with ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook threatens to block news if Australia doesn't amend its new media law

  If you live in Australia, chances are that you might not be able to post news links on Facebook soon. The company said it ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?

  In May, a Wisconsin health care agency, Tenderness Health Care, posted a job ad on Facebook looking for personal care ...

  • The Markup

• Why Facebook's plan to give virtual assistants bodies is both awesome and terrifying

  Facebook recently showed off the progress its AI research team has made in the realm of household robotics. The dream is ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook introduces a new shopping tab in the app -- just like Instagram

  Facebook is rolling out a new tab in its main app called Facebook Shop. The company had introduced a similar tab on Instagram ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Two left feet? Facebook’s new AI dance choreographer can teach you some brand new moves

  Facebook's AI boffins have developed a new system that creates original dance routines for any music that you feed it.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Zuckerberg lobbied against TikTok in a private meeting with Trump, report reveals

  It's no secret that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees TikTok as a threat. On several occasions, he has brought up TikTok's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook Portal gets Zoom support, turns into a little workstation

  Facebook today announced an upgrade for its Portal smart displays: namely, they'll soon support various videoconferencing ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How Facebook's Yann LeCun is charting a path to human-level artificial intelligence

  Facebook's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told TNW about the latest developments at FAIR, the social network's research lab. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Oculus users will soon be required to have a Facebook account

  It's happened: Oculus accounts are being phased out and you'll have to have a Facebook account if you want to use an Oculus ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook begins the Instagram DM and Messenger merge

  In January last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook plans to integrate messaging services between Messenger, Instagram, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook blames COVID-19 for reduced action on suicide, self-injury, and child exploitation content

  Facebook says that COVID-19 has hindered its ability to remove posts about suicide, self-injury, and child nudity and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook is banning controversial Dutch character 'Zwarte Piet' 

  In an update to its community standards, Facebook just announced it will no longer allow depictions of Zwarte Piet (or Black ...

  • Anouk Vleugels

• NASDAQ 100 sits on nearly $1T in cash — and we’ve got the charts to prove it

  The companies that make up the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 stock index have saved more than $500 billion over the past eight years. ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook removed a Trump post claiming children are 'almost immune' to coronavirus

  In a Wednesday morning interview on Fox News' Fox & Friends, Donald Trump claimed children are "almost immune" to COVID-19. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook launches Instagram Reels globally amidst TikTok drama

  We all knew it was coming: Facebook has officially launched Instagram Reels – its answer to TikTok — across the world. ...

  • Mix

• Facebook has been barely impacted by big advertisers' boycott — here’s why

  Facebook has faced a lot of criticism over the years for failing to moderate hate speech. Its policies have come under increasing ...

  • The Conversation

• Facebook is launching official music videos in the US

  Facebook is taking another stab at stealing some video viewing hours from YouTube by launching official music videos in ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Big Tech told Congress there's loads of competition. This chart says otherwise

  The divide between US giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet and smaller tech firms is severe since coronavirus crashed ...

  • David Canellis

• A scientific analysis of the Facebook group where millennials pretend to be Boomers

  I joined a private community called “a group where we all pretend to be Boomers (UNCENSORED)" and rated the accuracy of ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How to watch today's antitrust hearing against Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

  The CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook will defend their business practices in front of congress today. Here's how ...

  • Mix

• Facebook built a powerful AI model to simulate entire social media networks in action

  When it comes to live-fire high-wire acts in the tech industry, there can be few endeavors more daunting than executing a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Emoji have been around since 1862 — here's the complete timeline

  We use emoji everyday to say how we’re feeling, what we’re up to, and even as extensions of our personality. An emoji ...

  • Izaak Crook

• EU top court bans US-EU data sharing deal over surveillance fears

  The EU's Court of Justice has struck down its Privacy Shield pact with the United States due to concerns about US surveillance. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google reportedly in talks to make $4B investment into Jio Platforms

  Google might be the next major company to invest in India's Reliance Jio Platform. According to Bloomberg, the search giant ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook wants to lure you away from YouTube with official music videos

  Facebook is taking another step to lure some folks away from YouTube. The social network will soon let you watch official ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Wake up sheeple: AI shows all tourists basically take the same picture

  A new study from Facebook's AI team shows how travel images and conservation policies influence the movements of tourists ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook fuck-up is crashing tons of iOS apps, including Spotify and Tinder

  Nope, it's not just you: a bunch of your favorite apps (including Tinder and Spotify) are crashing on the iPhone — and ...

  • Mix

• Facebook removes 3 white supremacist band pages — leaves (at least) 117 others

  Al Jazeera investigation reveals 120 Facebook pages for heavy-metal bands that violate the platform's hate speech policies ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Here's how Facebook found disinformation networks tied to Bolsonaro and Roger Stone

  Facebook has taken down four disinformation networks focused on domestic politics. Here's how they operated, according to ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The fall of Microsoft’s Mixer and the fate of its exiles

  Microsoft shutters Mixer, its streaming site that never quite made it big. The now-former Mixer streamers basically have ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• New AI project captures Jane Austen's thoughts on social media

  A new AI project from magician and novelist Andrew Mayne creates simulated conversations with historical figures including ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook's first TikTok clone failed, so it tries for another

  Facebook's doing away with its first attempt to rip off TikTok, an app called Lasso, as well as its Hobbi app. But there's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook and Instagram will remind you to wear a mask atop your feed

  Back in May, it seemed the number of new coronavirus cases was beginning to go down. Then, as states began to reopen (often ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 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, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Social media etiquette 101 for businesspeople: The dos and don’ts

  Social media etiquette is important if you want to do business online. Here's everything you need to know to succeed across ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What are my photos revealing about me?

  For years, tech savvy people have known that photos shot on your phone contain lots of information that you may not want ...

  • The Markup

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook sues India-based website for creating misleading domains

  Facebook said it filed a lawsuit against India-based proxy service Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd. for impersonating ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook begins placing labels on posts by 'state-controlled media'

  Starting today, Facebook will label posts by state-controlled media on the social network. The company first announced the move in October, part of larger efforts to fight disinformation during elections. In a post announcing the update, Facebook said: We’re providing greater ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Everyone can now use Facebook’s Google Photos export tool

  In 2019, Facebook started testing a tool that lets you transfer your images from the social network to Google Photos easily. Earlier ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Zuckerberg won't budge on violent Trump posts despite employee protests

  "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." So tweeted Donald Trump on May 29, in response to nationwide protests catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd -- an incitement to violence by the ostensible leader of the United States. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704 More ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook now allows you to swiftly delete your most embarrassing posts

  Old Facebook posts can make you cringe, cry, or groan with embarrassment -- so now the site's got a way for you to bulk-delete ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• It's time for a sequel to The Social Network and Quentin Tarantino should direct it

  Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino revealed in a recent interview that he believes The Social Network is the best film ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Donald Trump is threatening to punish Twitter. Here's why everyone should take this seriously

  US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday afternoon declaring social media companies to be broadcasters (as opposed to carriers). While the exact language of the EO has yet to be revealed, an alleged draft has circulated on social media throughout ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook reportedly knew its algorithms promoted extremist groups, but did nothing

  Facebook has long struggled with controlling extremist content on its platform. From the 2016 US elections, when Russians ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Icon Rewind is a time machine for your phone’s app icons

  Do you miss the old logos of Tinder, PayPal, Netflix, Instagram, and many other popular apps? Then Icon Rewind might just ...

  • Mix

• Facebook's using AI to find scammers and imposters on Messenger

  Facebook is using AI to spot scammers on Messenger. The feature searches for suspicious activity without reading your chats ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook rolls out Shops, turning Pages into storefronts

  Facebook today revealed its rolling out a major update called Shops. These would effectively turn Facebook and Instagram ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook and ByteDance investor General Atlantic pumps $870 million into Reliance Jio

  India's Reliance Jio has scored its fourth investment in four weeks. US-based firm General Atlantic has invested ₹6,598.38 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook releases Avatars -- here's how to get yours just right

  Facebook just rolled out Avatars, little doppelgangers you can use as stickers. Here's how you can find and customize yours. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook buys GIPHY, the popular GIF-hosting platform

  Facebook has just bought the popular GIF hosting platform GIPHY. In a blog post, GIPHY said it will be integrated into the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Messenger Rooms, Facebook's 50-caller Zoom competitor, is now available

  Messenger Rooms is now available and rolling out globally, supporting up to 50 video callers at once. Here's how to use Facebook's ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook's head of AI thinks Elon musk has 'no idea what he's talking about' — and he's not alone

  Elon Musk is a prominent figure in the AI community, but a lot of experts don't see eye to eye with him. Today, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Automating your social media posts could hurt your startup's online presence

  It’s the 21st century and automation sits on the brim of just about everything in business — customer service, development, ...

  • Tricia Aurelline Atmadja

• WhatsApp may soon support 50-person video calls through Messenger Rooms

  Ever since Facebook bought WhatsApp back in 2014, the company has managed to keep the the mega-popular chat app quite separate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Here's everything Facebook and Instagram are doing for grads this week

  As the class of 2020 prepares to graduate in quarantine, Facebook and Instagram are putting on a show for the socially-distanced ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook names its Oversight Board, a 'supreme court' that can overrule Zuckerberg

  Facebook today named the members of its Oversight Board, an independent body that could, in theory, help Facebook fix its ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook takes another stab at enabling 'free' mobile web access with its new Discover app

  Remember Free Basics? Facebook's ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time. It has a new baby ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• After Facebook's mega-investment, Indian carrier Reliance Jio raises $748M from Silver Lake

  After getting a $5.7 billion investment from Facebook, Indian’s largest carrier, Reliance Jio, has raised another $748 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Venus and Serena Williams take on Mario Tennis for charity

  Facebook Gaming is holding a Mario Tennis Aces tournament for charity, starring a group of tennis pros and celebrities. It's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook just made it easy to copy images to Google Photos -- here's how

  Facebook today made it easy for users in the US and Canada to transfer their images and videos to Google Photos. The tool ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook's teaching AI to lie like a human

  Facebook AI researchers today announced Blender, a set of state-of-the-art open-source chatbot models. These new models are ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Pranksters are rigging Facebook's memorialisation system to declare people 'dead' in Bangladesh

  On April 21, Zohir Rayhan, a web developer from Bangladesh, logged in to Facebook as usual to check his social feed. He ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube begins fact-checking searches in the US

  YouTube today announced it will begin to provide fact-check search queries in the US. The video giant had previously rolled ...

  • Napier Lopez

• The TickTime is a clever productivity gadget that just works

  With so much of the world's workforce shifting to remote labor, a whole lot of people are trying to figure out how to be ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook-backed Reliance Jio pilots basic grocery ordering service on WhatsApp in India

  Reliance Jio's ecommerce arm, JioMart, is now testing a system for WhatsApp users to order goods via the messaging service. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook challenges Zoom with Messenger Rooms, supporting 50 video callers at once

  Video calling and virtual meetings have become our new normal during this pandemic, and everyone from Zoom, to Microsoft, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Report: Most important data on digital audiences during coronavirus

  April 2020 collection of global digital trends for professionals wanting to gain audience insights: Extraordinary times, ...

  • Simon Kemp

• Want to find a misinformed public? Facebook’s already done it

  Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post pledging to combat misinformation about COVID-19 circulating on ...

  • The Markup

• Facebook invests $5.7B in Indian mobile carrier Reliance Jio to bring small businesses online

  Facebook today announced that it's investing ₹43,574 crores ($5.67 billion) into India's biggest carrier, Reliance Jio, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• FANG's coronavirus bounce added $251 billion to their market values

  The tech stocks that make up FANG have bounced hard since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spurred record sell-offs in ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook launches gaming app in the US to take on Twitch and YouTube

  Facebook can't seem to help trying to infiltrate every possible iteration of social media, and since its acquisition of Oculus, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• After France, Australia wants Google and Facebook to pay for news

  Earlier this month, France's competition authority ordered Google to pay news outlets for using snippets of their content ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook is adding a 'hug' reaction to show you care during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Facebook is adding a new reaction to live alongside the Like button and the existing reactions: 'Hug' The reaction shows ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook tests security measures by cloning itself and setting bots free

  In a parallel social network hidden from prying eyes, an army of Facebook bots is abusing the platform to find hidden security ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook to notify users who've read coronavirus misinformation

  Facebook users who have interacted with coronavirus misinformation will soon get alerts on the platform, the company announced ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook just introduced a 'Quiet Mode' to help you stop using Facebook

  'Digital wellbeing,' the movement to limit our times on devices so we can focus on other things, has been one of the biggest ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Index Ventures launches $2B fund to back tech startups worldwide

  Index Ventures, arguably one of the most prominent venture capital funds around, has announced the closure of a $2 billion ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook Gaming launches Tournaments as part of its social distancing campaign

  Facebook's latest attempt to encourage social distancing is Gaming Tournaments, allowing groups of people to play together ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook launches Tuned, a scrapbook messaging app just for couples (with iPhones)

  Every once in a while, Facebook spits out an idea for an app via its NPE, or New Product Experimentation team. The team was ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook apologizes after AI blocks posts about DIY coronavirus masks

  Facebook's AI moderators claimed another innocent victim this week when an algorithm blocked content on DIY masks that protect ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• WhatsApp limits message forwarding to only one person at a time

  With the coronavirus pandemic affecting countries all over the world, misinformation is on the rise on the internet. While ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 6 fatal mistakes made by ad tech giants in the 2010s — and what they can teach you

  During the last ten years we have witnessed the growth and flourishing of ad tech. Since then, many good things have been ...

  • Lina Lugova

• Facebook launches standalone Messenger desktop app

  Facebook just released a new app that allows you to access Messenger from your desktop. It includes unlimited group and video ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• The US takes Facebook to court over $9 billion in (allegedly) unpaid taxes

  The IRS says Facebook intentionally undervalued intellectual property it transfered to an Irish subsidiary in order to avoid ...

  • David Canellis

• Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook: Say hello to ‘stay-at-home’ tech stocks

  The threat of the coronavirus has suddely changed consumer habits, and traders are looking to make gains with 'stay-at-home' ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook offers $100 million to help news outlets during coronavirus

  Facebook is giving $25 million in emergency funds to news organizations trying to report on the coronavirus, and $75 million ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How to sort your Facebook feed by most recent in the new redesign

  Facebook's redone its design, and in doing so separated the News Feed from its Most Recent option. So how do you find it? ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Zoom's iOS app is sending your data to Facebook, because privacy is a myth (Updated)

  Update (30/03/2020): Over the weekend, Zoom said it had removed the code that sends data from the iOS app to Facebook. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The coronavirus pandemic isn't making Facebook any money

  Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns might have all of us on social media more than ever, but business isn't exactly booming ...

  • David Canellis

• PSA: Netflix isn't giving away free subs due to coronavirus — it's a scam

  Nope, Netflix isn't handing out free subscriptions to its streaming service due to the coronavirus outbreak — but hackers ...

  • Mix

• YouTube launches a dedicated coronavirus news shelf

  Google is adding a dedicated coronavirus news shelf to YouTube to keep you informed. It'll only feature info from trusted ...

  • Mix

• Facebook brings dark mode redesign to "the majority" of desktop users

  Facebook has been teasing a new design for its desktop website since last year's F8, but so far, only a select few users ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Social media conspiracies blame coronavirus on 5G internet

  Conspiracy theorists are infecting YouTube and Facebook with bogus theories that 5G mobile internet is responsible for the ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook now bans ads peddling coronavirus conspiracies and fake cures

  Facebook doubles down on its desire to halt the spread of coronavirus misinformation, this time by prohibiting ads for "cures." ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook just canceled its F8 developer conference because of coronavirus

  Facebook today announced the cancellation of its annual F8 developer conference due to fears over the COVID-19 (coronavirus) ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Social media firms will use more AI to combat coronavirus misinformation, even if it makes more mistakes

  Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube will be using more AI to tackle coronavirus misinformation, which they admit will ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook warns misleading video of Biden supporting Trump is 'partly false'

  Shortly after Twitter began labeling misleading political videos, Facebook is following suit with its own disclaimer on such ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to make the most of Facebook ads — with as little as $5 per day

  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring how technology will shape the ever-evolving marketing ...

  • Fab Giovanetti

• How to use the sleek new version of Facebook Messenger on iOS

  Facebook's stripped down Messenger, getting rid of lots of extraneous tabs and features. So what do we have left over? Here's ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How to keep Facebook Memories from showing up on your newsfeed

  Facebook has a bad habit of showing you Memories of former posts, even if you don't want to see them. Here's how to hide ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook Messenger on iOS is now twice as fast and a quarter the size

  Facebook just introduced a lighter, more streamlined UI for Messenger last week. But omitted from that initial news was the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• George Soros: Zuckerberg is on Trump's side and must be removed

  Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to "be removed ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Facebook Messenger just got a cleaner design by killing Discover and chatbots

  Facebook Messenger is getting a facelift with a simpler, more streamlined design. Granted, we already knew that given the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• You can now post Facebook's trippy 3D photos without Portrait mode

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  • Mix

• Facebook plans to clarify when pro-Bloomberg posts come from staffers

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  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook will pay you for your voice recordings, but it's not worth it

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook is testing tabs to organize your News Feed

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  • Napier Lopez

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  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook Lite gets Dark Mode while the main app is still waiting

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  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook changes its ad rules over Bloomberg's cringey memes

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  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook just released a Pinterest-style app called Hobbi

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  • Napier Lopez

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  • David Canellis

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  • Mix

• Report: Apple servers 'intercept' emails to find child abuse imagery

  A Forbes report published today revealed how Apple servers scan and read emails to find child abuse imagery using the process ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Instagram tests IGTV ads that let creators monetize their vids

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  • Rachel Kaser

• Japan's central bank looks to Europe for guidance on China's digital yuan

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  • David Canellis

• Twitter's new manipulated media rules leave a lot of gray area

  Last year, deepfake technology emerged as a dangerous form of technology, and social networks were scrambling around to form ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube claims to share billions in ad money with creators, unlike Instagram

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  • Rachel Kaser

• 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? ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Vodafone ditches Facebook’s 'cryptocurrency' to focus on M-Pesa

  Vodafone has had enough of the Libra Foundation and its cryptocurrency. It's leaving to work on its own fintech solution, ...

  • David Canellis

• EU central banks team up to explore digital currency use cases

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  • David Canellis

• Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong

  Facebook's digital panopticon creates a “chilling effect,” where people are afraid to exercise their freedom of expression. ...

  • Harold Li

• Facebook now sends you a notification when you log in to third-party sites

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  • Rachel Kaser

• Filipino billionaire denies endorsing Bitcoin 'scam'

  The Philippines' richest man has denied his involvement in a purported Bitcoin trading scam that's known for allegedly using ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram's decision to hide photoshopped images is a disservice to art

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  • Mix

• Hide the Pain Harold is the meme of the decade (according to Imgur)

  It's a hotly contested topic, that's for sure. But according to image sharing platform Imgur, the most impactful meme of ...

  • Mix

• Instagram brings DMs to web -- over 6 years after they arrived on mobile

  Starting today, Instagram will be rolling out its Direct messaging system to its desktop site, meaning you can finally keep ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google topped app downloads in Q4 2019, but Facebook dominated the year

  For the first time in five years, Google has snatched the reigns from Facebook to become the world's top publisher of mobile ...

  • Mix

• 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 ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook vows to crack down on 'misleading' deepfakes

  Facebook today announced it will ban misleading manipulated media -- including Photoshopped images and deepfakes. This announcement ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook’s a mess, but it doesn’t mean backdoors are the answer

  Despite my run-ins with the Islamic State, I believe backdoors aren't the answer. What we need is a pre-agreed, cryptographically ...

  • Andersen Cheng

• Swiss president: 'Libra has failed'

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  • Matthew Beedham

• 13 fun Bitcoin and blockchain tweets that epitomize this wild industry

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• Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra lacks concrete plan for 2020 launch, says board member

  Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ project Libra has no concrete strategy for launching in 2020, according to one of the Libra ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 267 million Facebook users' data has reportedly been leaked

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook just bought a cloud gaming service

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  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook owns the four most popular apps of the decade

  Analytics firm App Annie revealed data about the most-downloaded apps and games of the past ten years. Most of it is about ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Your annual reminder that Facebook tracks you even with location settings turned off

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 2019: The year Twitch streamers jumped ship to Mixer, YouTube & Facebook

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  • Rachel Kaser

• CHEAP: Say 'CHEESE,' fool — the Fujifilm Instax Mini 9 bundle has 40% off

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• [Best of 2019] The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated

  It's hard to remember a world without social media, but it existed – as did a lot of other networks. We tracked their evolution. ...

  • Callum Booth

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter to introduce stricter content NSFW guidelines — worrying adult content creators

  Twitter, a platform that tolerates sexual expression, has joined the censorship-ranks by changing its guidelines around its ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook’s new chatbot teaches employees how to answer difficult questions about the company

  Facebook’s public relations teams built an artificial intelligence bot to help its employees deflect criticism from relatives ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Reddit's DataIsBeautiful is sick of bar chart races — so it's banning them

  The moderator team of Reddit's DataIsBeautiful community has been getting an avalanche of spammy race charts, so it's temporarily ...

  • Mix

• Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down — go back to work

  Yep, it's not just you: Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are all down right now — and nobody knows why. Find something ...

  • Mix

• Facebook's only fact-checker for Dutch news quits over political ad controversy

  Facebook is currently operating without a third-party fact-checker in the Netherlands over the dispute of allowing political ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook allegedly blocked personal accounts of WhatsApp spyware maker's employees

  On Tuesday, eight employees from the Israel-based security company, NSOGroup, filed a lawsuit against Facebook in the Tel ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 1,300 adult performers accuse Instagram of unfairly deleting their accounts

  The Adult Performers Actors Guild (APAG) has a list of over 1,300 performers who say their accounts have been unfairly deleted ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook considers political ad limits after Twitter and Google take action

  Facebook has encountered serious backlash for the way it's chosen to go about dealing with political ads - in some ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Popular Android apps are shipping with outdated bug-ridden software

  Researchers have found that several popular Android apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WeChat, come with outdated software ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google finally takes a stance on political ads with microtargeting restrictions

  Google has announced a crack down on political ads that limits advertisers from targeting ads based on voters' political ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Unlike Facebook, Snapchat will fact-check political ads

  In an interview with CNBC, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat's CEO, said his company will fact-check and review all ads on the platform, ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Czech gov wants to slap a 7% ad tax on internet giants like Google and Facebook

  If the Czech government's tax will be accepted by parliament, the Czech Republic will join EU countries like France and Italy ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• WhatsApp fixes bug that would have let hackers exploit devices using MP4 files

  WhatsApp has fixed a vulnerability involving involves malicious MP4 video files that could potentially allow an attacker ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WhatsApp spyware was used to snoop on 2 dozen Indian activists and journalists (Updated)

  WhatsApp reveals at least two dozen academics, lawyers, Dalit activists and journalists in India were the target of surveillance ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Wikipedia's co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network

  Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks he can create a better social network. Called WT:Social, the network has no financial ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook let anti-vaxxers run rampant with misinformation ads, because money

  Earlier this year Facebook said it would crack down on ads from groups peddling misinformation about vaccines. The announcement ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Cryptocurrency is keeping FBI on its toes as director recognizes increasing threat

  The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has said cryptocurrencies are a "significant problem that will ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram now supports dark mode on iOS 13 — here's how to enable it

  Instagram has updated its app for iPhone with a dark mode that matches iOS 13's system-wide dark theme. Here's how to turn ...

  • Mix

• Facebook begins testing dark mode and a Twitter-like interface for desktop

  In May, Facebook said it was going to redesign the website and bring dark mode to its website and mobile apps. While it began ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed

  iPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you're scrolling ...

  • Mix

• Facebook Pay will let you make payments through Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram

  Last night, Facebook launched its new payment service called Facebook Pay in the US. The service will let you pay other people ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Aussie 'E-Crime Squad' arrests crypto exchange owner, seizing his Bitcoin ATM

  Australian detectives have arrested a 38-year-old man as part of an investigation into unregistered cryptocurrency exchange. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook must remove fake Bitcoin ads featuring Big Brother creator or pay $1.2M

  The billionaire creator of the 'Big Brother' television format, John de Mol, has been successful in forcing Facebook to take ...

  • David Canellis

• The EU is coming after big tech again — this time for political ads

  The EU is said to be considering new political ad regulations so that "people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles

  Instagram is now locking down its platform by preventing signed-out users from having unlimited access to public profiles. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Australia reportedly wants to grill Facebook about its 'cryptocurrency' plans

  Facebook may have to divulge further details about its plans after failing to lessen regulatory concerns in Australia.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook is testing facial detection tech to keep bots at bay (update)

  In order to keep its social network free of malicious bots, Facebook keeps trying out new tactics.In its latest test, it's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook Groups members' info left exposed to 100 app developers

  Facebook has revealed that an unspecified number of third-party apps from as many as 100 developers may have improperly accessed ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• EU proposes issuing its own digital currency to counteract the Libra effect

  The European Central Bank should look into the prospect of launching its own public digital currency.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Report: Facebook wanted to buy Fitbit too, but Google offered more cash

  Google buying Fitbit was the big news of the day, but in an alternate universe, it might have been another tech behemoth ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Why Facebook’s response to Twitter ceasing political ads isn’t satisfactory

  Mozilla points out that Facebook's ad API is far from perfect and doesn't solve the core issue of promoting untrue messages. ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• It’s ‘impossible to exist’ on Facebook as an NSFW artist

  Facebook updated its policies, under the guise of preventing “sexual solicitation,” and now restricts solicitation involving ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook suspends accounts linked to Putin ally for spreading disinformation in Africa

  Facebook said in a post that it had removed three “inauthentic” Russian influence networks from the platform that were ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook is testing end-to-end encryption for secret Messenger calls

  In March, Mark Zuckerberg shared his grand vision of Facebook's future that included encrypting all messaging services. It ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey backs cryptocurrency startup after turning down Facebook’s Libra

  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently said his company would never get involved with Facebook's Libra, has backed ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• IBM joins ING in saying central bank digital currencies are on the way

  ING isn't the only institution that's expecting central bank digital currencies to be a thing quite soon, IBM also says they ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook wants to get into healthcare. What could possibly go wrong?

  Facebook wants to remind you to see a doctor. It's working on a suite of "Preventative Health" features designed to help ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook defends Libra comparing it to some of the 'most meaningful innovations' of our time — lol

  Facebook’s Libra lead has defended the technology giant’s ‘cryptocurrency’ project at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook employees object to the company’s policy of allowing lies in political ads

  Facebook employees issued an open letter urging Mark Zuckerberg to rethink the company's strategy for regulating paid political ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Instagram refused to run an HIV preventative drug campaign because it contained 'politics'

  Facebook and Instagram refused to run an educational campaign promoting the benefits of PrEP — a HIV preventative drug ...

  • Cara Curtis

• China’s tech race with the US heats up as it readies to launch its digital currency

  China has approved a law to regulate cryptography as it readies to launch its own digital currency. But, what does this mean ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook's new AI tweaks video so you can't be identified by face recognition tech

  Facebook's face de-identification tech modifies your face slightly in video content to thwart facial recognition systems. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says "hell no" to joining Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'

  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said the popular microblogging site will never join Facebook’s controversial ‘cryptocurrency’ ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook is about to reveal its News tab

  Facebook is getting its own dedicated news tab later this week, apparently. The platform's tricky relationship with news ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Zuckerberg tells Congress he’ll delay Libra until regulatory issues are sorted (yeah right)

  Facebook's billionaire co-founder Mark Zuckerberg stood before US Congress yesterday, in an attempt to change the rhetoric ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook will clearly label fake news to prevent 2020 ‘election interference'

  Facebook updated its policies on the spread of misinformation and released a bunch of new tools to better “protect the ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Amazon joins Facebook and Microsoft to fight deepfakes

  Deepfakes have come across as serious problems this year and big companies are now paying attention. Amazon announced today ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• G7 countries caution against Facebook’s ‘risky’ Libra

  Earlier this week I told you Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' saga had turned into a soap opera and that it was going to be a ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• US Fed Reserve: Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ dream faces core legal, regulatory challenges

  The US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said yesterday that Facebook must overcome a “core of legal and regulatory ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram now lets you control which apps can access your account data

  Instagram adding a new feature that allows individuals to "manage all of the third-party services they connect to their Instagram ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook’s Libra ‘cryptocurrency’ is turning into a soap opera — and it's gonna be a long season

  Facebook’s controversial ‘cryptocurrency’ project is turning into a bit of a soap opera, starring the tech giant and ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• An overview of Facebook’s 'cryptocurrency' supporters — who’s in and who’s out

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  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook's ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra unveils official backers, but its future is still uncertain

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  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook is reportedly locking users out for reporting fake accounts

  In a completely bizarre incident, Facebook is locking people who report scammers, fake accounts, and impersonators out of ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• RIP: How to stop Facebook from stealing your data after you die

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  • Cara Curtis

• Moonday Mornings: eBay, Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and Mercado Pago leave Facebook’s Libra Association

  Good morning forkers. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you shouldn't miss. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters

  Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WhatsApp for Android has mysteriously disappeared from Google Play [Update: It's back]

  WhatsApp, one of the world's most popular privacy-oriented messengers, has suddenly disappeared from Google Play — and ...

  • Mix

• Pinterest says AI reduced self-harm content on its platform by 88%

  Pinterest announced that for the past year, it’s been using machine learning to identify and hide content that displays ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Central bank says Libra must operate like a bank if it’s to launch in UK

  The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee has laid down a set of rules that Facebook's Libra must follow if it is ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Vodafone repledges Libra support, but wants it independent of Facebook

  Vodafone wants Libra to appoint an independent chief executive so that it becomes fully separate from Facebook.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram tests Threads app for 'intimate sharing' with close friends

  Facebook is internally testing a new chat app for Instagram called Threads in what appears to be the company's "latest assault ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• You can soon bet on Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra missing its launch date

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  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook faces EU grilling over Libra 'cryptocurrency' after losing PayPal backing

  As Facebook deals with the loss of PayPal's backing for its 'cryptocurrency' Libra, the tech giant must now get ready to ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Moonday Mornings: Investigations into UK crypto businesses rise 74% in 1 year

  Welcome, it's time for Moonday Mornings. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Here’s how to hide and report comments on Facebook

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  • Cara Curtis

• Has Apple changed its tack towards cryptocurrency?

  Apple’s VP referred to cryptocurrency as “interesting” last month. But it seems the company might be changing its tact ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Indian high court orders Facebook to name activists behind #MeToo testimonial account

  The Delhi High Court has ordered Facebook to reveal the identities behind the anonymous #MeToo testimonial account, “Scene ...

  • Cara Curtis

• PayPal may be getting cold feet over Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra

  Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra is reportedly on the verge of losing another one of its partners after Paypal pulled ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• EU courts can now force Facebook to remove ‘illegal comments’ worldwide

  The is yet another landmark ruling from the CJEU in a period of few weeks, but the latest one might be monumental in defning ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Study: Taking a break from Facebook (and news) makes people less depressed

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  • Cara Curtis

• WhatsApp bug allowed hackers to steal files and messages with GIFs

  A vulnerability in WhatsApp made it possible for attackers to gain access to your files nad messages by tricking you to open ...

  • Mix

• Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency lead fires back at Wall Street Journal report

  David Marcus, the man in charge of getting Facebook's controversial 'cryptocurrency' Libra off the ground, has fired back ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 accounts in search of nudes

  It seems a former Yahoo engineer didn't quite get the concept of "permission" after hacking 6,000 accounts in order to steal ...

  • Mix

• Zuck says Facebook will never curb offensive content — but vows to protect its moderators

  In a two-hour leaked audio recording obtained by The Verge, Zuckerberg reveals what Facebook's plans are to protect its 30,000 ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook now blocks Pirate Bay links — but you can still bypass the ban

  Welp, Facebook no longer lets you share links from The Pirate Bay with your friends ⁠— but you can still share proxy ...

  • Mix

• Libra exec promises Facebook's plan isn't to replace existing currencies

  The Libra Association really wants us to know that Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' is not being created to replace existing ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook tests hiding Like counts, just like Instagram

  Facebook has gone ahead and done it. The company begun hiding the number of likes that posts have received, starting today ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook needs to delay Libra’s launch — if it really wants to work with regulators

  Facebook, the tech behemoth known for its “move fast and break things” motto, the mishandling of customer data, and interference ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Study: Weaponized misinformation from political parties is now a global problem

  A study found that since 2017, organized social media manipulation has more than doubled with at least 70 countries using ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Japan doesn’t want to fight Facebook’s 'cryptocurrency' Libra on its own

  Facebook's controversial 'cryptocurrency' Libra is facing yet more scrutiny after the governor of Japan's central bank called ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Moonday Mornings: Kate Winslet is hunting for Bitcoin scammers

  It's that time of the week again when we serve you up a fresh plate of blockchain and cryptocurrency headlines from over ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Businesses can now schedule Instagram posts and IGTV videos with Facebook — here’s how

  Earlier this week, Facebook released a new update for its Creator Studio, allowing businesses on the platform to schedule ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Instagram now restricts visibility of weight loss products and cosmetic surgery posts for teens

  In an effort to combat toxic beauty standards, Instagram announced it will tighten its policy on posts related to weight ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Moonday Mornings: Teen allegedly stole unreleased A-list music to sell for Bitcoin

  Gather round forkers, it's time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• France calls for EU-wide cryptocurrency rules amid Libra concerns

  The European Union needs to establish a common set of rules for cryptocurrencies to counteract risks posed by Facebook’s ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Big Brother billionaire suing Facebook over Bitcoin ads says agreement ‘is impossible’

  It's been three months since de Mol sued Facebook over fraudulent Bitcoin, and now he says the firm's co-operation has been ...

  • David Canellis

• Samsung says Galaxy Fold will run 'hundreds' of optimized apps at launch

  Samsung's Galaxy Fold was delayed so much we were beginning to think it wouldn't even come out this year. Luckily that all ...

  • Napier Lopez

• China is following Facebook's playbook to issue a centralized digital currency

  China's proposed token will supposedly be able to be used without an internet connection, too. What are the odds it never ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook just launched its Dating service

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook leak contained phone numbers for 419 million users

  Another month, another Facebook data breach. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sanyam Jain was able to locate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• European Central Bank bigwig outlines why Facebook's Libra isn't real cryptocurrency

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  • David Canellis

• Facebook hires lobbying firm to help sweet talk cryptocurrency regulators

  It seems Facebook's so-called "cryptocurrency" Libra needs a helping hand, as it's hired a specialist firm to lobby Washington ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Want to make $10,000 from Libra? Break its blockchain

  The supposedly independent group of companies tasked with overseeing the delivery of Facebook's "cryptocurrency" Libra has ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

  Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra may be in more trouble than we thought

  Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra may be in even deeper trouble than we thought if a recent report is anything to go by.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra reportedly facing EU competition probe

  The European Union’s antitrust regulators are “currently investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” amid concerns ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook should stop trying to disrupt payments with Libra and focus on repair

  Regulators typically look at companies’ intentions and previous compliance when they enter highly regulated fields - which ...

  • Peter Yared

• Binance to launch a blockchain for fiat-backed stablecoins, but who even cares?

  Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the launch of a new open blockchain, and it's called project "Venus." It should ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook's group privacy settings actually make sense now

  Until today, Facebook has given you three options for creating a user group: Open, closed, or 'secret.' While the first is ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook is courting publishers with multi-million dollar deals to launch its news tab this fall

  Facebook is keen to become a major news distributor again, after being lambasted for years over its role in aiding the spread ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• WhatsApp's chat manipulation exploit remains unresolved even after a year (Updated)

  Vulnerabilities uncovered in WhatsApp by cybersecurity firm Checkpoint can allow bad actors to exploit the platform to manipulate ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook, stop trying to make Libra happen

  Data protection bosses from all over the world are concerned about Facebook Libra's potential privacy issues.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Instagram and WhatsApp get a 'from Facebook' stamp to remind you who's boss

  To be honest, I'm kind of impressed Facebook held out this long. After buying WhatsApp and Instagram several years ago, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• India doesn't want WhatsApp sharing your payment data with Facebook

  Indian government raises concerns that WhatsApp’s payment service might share user data with Facebook and Instagram, compromising ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Zuckerberg’s word use suggests Facebook is selling ‘experiences’ and not ‘ads’

  Mark Zuckerberg's communication style may not have changed, but his substance has.

  • Yaron Yitzhak

• The best way to make money out of Libra? Put a bet on it not launching on time

  With every passing week, the future of Facebook's digital currency Libra is looking less and less certain to launch next ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook gets away with $5B FTC fine for leaking your data

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  • David Canellis

• Facebook will launch its Libra digital currency in 2020

  Facebook has finally revealed plans to launch its new digital currency Libra next year.

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  • David Canellis

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  • Matthew Beedham

• Facebook finally faces GDPR lawsuit after getting shot down in Austrian court

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  • Már Másson Maack

• Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest

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  • Ivan Mehta

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  • Cara Curtis

• Dutch billionaire and Big Brother creator sues Facebook over fraudulent Bitcoin ads

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• Facebook board votes yae on Zuck, nay on Conservatives

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• Here's why your Facebook groups went secret overnight

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  • Rachel Kaser

• White House launches social media survey to collect Conservative tears

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  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook finally takes steps to limit abusive live streamers

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Here's what Facebook announced at its F8 developer keynote

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  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying

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  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook’s Secret Crush feature wants to help you find friends who are, like, totally obsessed with you

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  • Rachel Kaser

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• Dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2069

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  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook clamps down on personality quizzes to plug data leaks

  Facebook has updated its devloper platform policies to subject apps with minimal utility, such as personality quizzes, to ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• 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 ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WhatsApp is failing to stop the spread of child abuse videos

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  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now - but you may have already heard it

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

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• Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized

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  • Rachel Kaser

• Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without permission

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• Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches

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• How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them

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  • The Conversation

• Why Facebook will have a hard time becoming the next WeChat

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  • Rachel Kaser

• WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook announces a long-overdue transparency tool for News Feed

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  • Bryan Clark

• How to add Facebook events to your Google Calendar

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• It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Australian celebs targeted in long-running Bitcoin scam on Facebook

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  • Yessi Bello Perez

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  • Matthew Beedham

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  • The Conversation

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• How Facebook plans to use machine learning to wipe out revenge porn

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• Why can't Facebook keep problematic videos off its platform?

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  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook's new VR avatars are more lifelike than anything you've seen before

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• Report: Facebook ad clicks tumble, but the internet keeps on growing

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  • Jennifer Baker

• Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!

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  • Jennifer Baker

• Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?

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  • Robert Koven

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  • Emily Wilson

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  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against online misinformation

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  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook's global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities

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  • Cara Curtis

• Zuckerberg's 'blockchain login' plan makes absolutely no sense

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  • Neer Varshney

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  • Rachel Kaser

• How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security

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  • Bryan Clark

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Facebook launches Spectrum to make uploading large images easier

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• France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up

  France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 250-page document dump is another nail in Facebook’s coffin

  A member of British Parliament just released a massive cache of Facebook's internal documents, blowing the lid off some pretty ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters

  Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Nigeria caught in WhatsApp fake news whirlwind ahead of elections

  After numerous infamous cases of people in India and Brazil falling prey to fake news spread on WhatsApp, the problem is ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• I communicate with my parents via email... is that weird?

  Parents are weird — you love them, but also want them as physically far from you as possible. Until you miss them, or want ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Here's how we take back control over our digital identities

  The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...

  • Charles Race

• Hate speech is still too easy to find on social media

  If social media sites want to avoid becoming vectors for hate speech, plagues of hateful ideas, and memes, they need to step ...

  • The Conversation

• If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close

  It's been two tumultuous years. Still, it's highly unlikely we've witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook hack proves we need new user authentication methods

  Facebook's recent security hack that possibly affected 90 million users has exposed the fundamental flaws that our authentication ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News

  Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Digital rights groups demand Facebook let you appeal removed posts

  A group of 88 civil liberties groups have penned an open letter to Facebook requesting the company allow users to appeal ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Don’t post your kid online

  As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• We’re living in digital serfdom — trading privacy for convenience

  Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can ...

  • Hassan Khan

• What happened to our VR future?

  The latest innovation from Oculus -- the Oculus Quest -- was supposed to take the digital world by storm, but a relatively ...

  • Steve Jones

• The Facebook ad-pocalypse is coming, so spend your budget on creativity

  Brands pour billions of dollars into Facebook advertising, but the social media giant isn’t going to last forever. So, ...

  • Dominic Vaiana

• Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us

  When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? ...

  • Jayson DeMers

• Why poor teens haven't abandoned Facebook

  Facebook use remains high among teens from low-income families, unlike their more affluent peers. So why do they stick around? ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy

  The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing ...

  • Tom Jackson

• Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?

  Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• Here’s how face recognition tech can be GDPR compliant

  Ah, face recognition, that nifty little feature that's already making the still new fingerprint scanners (kind of) obsolete. ...

  • Parth Misra

• Facebook can simply say ‘no’ to EU’s proposed audit

  EU Parliament has called for an audit on Facebook as it believes the company's handling of data has breached EU law -- but ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal

  UK watchdog just fined Facebook £500,000 for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the amount is unlikely to affect the social ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Full moon patents: US Navy tube drones and Facebook doppelgängers

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Facebook now lets you add music to your profile and Stories

  Facebook today announced it was offering several new ways for users to incorporate music into their on-site identities -- ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Tim Cook supports EU’s strict privacy laws — but thinks taxes are 'crap'

  Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, gave a keynote at ICDPPC where he called for better data policies in tech and lauded EU's GDPR. Unfortunately, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Facebook trims Messenger's clutter with new update

  Facebook today announced it was overhauling Messenger, updating the interface and cutting down on the embarrassing amount ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo's first year

  The #MeToo movement is one year old and Me Too Rising, a Google product, visualizes the movement's global effect from October ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue

  Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 50% of American WhatsApp users don't know it's owned by Facebook

  Research from the search engine DuckDuckGo has revealed 50 percent of American WhatsApp users don't realize Facebook owns ...

  • Callum Booth

• Here's why we rage about religion on Facebook

  On Christmas Day last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his website to tell the world that he was not an atheist any ...

  • The Conversation

• How an employee screw-up made my company better at employee retention

  In order to keep a start-up company’s momentum going, you have to be proactive and creative in retaining employees -- since ...

  • Gil Dotan

• Facebook reveals details of September data breach affecting 29M users

  Facebook today revealed more information about the September data breach that potentially affected up to 50 million users. ...

  • Rachel Kaser