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Facebook Stories somehow hits 500 million daily users  THE VERGE · 4 hours
Somehow, defying all expectations, people are using Facebook Stories. And not just a few people, but a lot — more... more
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You might hate it, but Facebook Stories now has 500M users  TechCrunch · 5 hours
You might think it’s redundant with Instagram Stories, or just don’t want to see high school friends’ boring lives, but ephemeral Snapchat-style Stories now have 500... more
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Facebook reserves $3B for FTC fine, but keeps growing with 2.38B users in Q1  TechCrunch · 5 hours
A massive penalty hangs over Facebook’s head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report. Facebook reached 2.38... more
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Facebook keeps growing with 2.38B users in Q1, but saves $3B for FTC fine  TechCrunch · 6 hours
A massive penalty hangs over Facebook’s head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report. Facebook reached 2.38... more
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Facebook sets aside $3 billion ahead of record FTC fine over privacy violations  THE VERGE · 6 hours
The upward trajectory of Facebook’s financial performance continues unabated in... more
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Neo-Nazi's Facebook account left active  BBC · 7 hours
The social network says it is investigating why the profile was not removed - as it had promised. more
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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast no one asked for - CNET  CNET · 8 hours
So far there are two episodes of Tech & Society With Mark Zuckerberg. more
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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast  TechCrunch · 9 hours
In the future, everyone will have a podcast — and by “future,” I mean like mid-2020. But one step at a time, starting with Facebook founder, CEO and definite human person, Mark Zuckerberg . Facebook announced the podcast’s... more
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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now  THE VERGE · 10 hours
In January, Mark Zuckerberg published a blog post announcing his New Year’s resolution. After a year full of scandals, Zuckerberg wanted to publicly tackle... more
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Hate speech: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube told off by MPs  BBC · 13 hours
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are accused of not doing their jobs as they face questions from MPs. more
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Should Be Liable for Privacy Missteps, Top US Lawmaker Says  Gadgets 360 · 18 hours
US federal regulators should hold Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg "individually liable for the company's repeated violations of Americans' privacy,"... more
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Mark Zuckerberg under fire for Facebook's privacy mistakes - CNET  CNET · 1 day
Sen. Ron Wyden wants federal regulators to hold the CEO personally responsible. more
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Facebook blocks could open the door to online censorship  THE VERGE · 1 day
On Easter Sunday, in the wake of devastating attacks that killed over 300 people, Sri Lanka shut down... more
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Facebook’s Sri Lanka crisis page let Islamophobic post get top billing - CNET  CNET · 1 day
The top video on the page came with a caption that read, “can we assume all Muslims are guilty.” more
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Facebook has quietly removed three bogus far right networks in Spain ahead of Sunday’s elections  TechCrunch · 1 day
Facebook has quietly removed three far right networks that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior intended to spread... more
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'Shady' pro-Brexit adverts 'got one million clicks'  Sky News · 1 day
Controversial pro-Brexit advertisements generated "one million clicks" on Facebook, the Information Commissioner's Office has told a group of MPs. more
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How to find out if Facebook uploaded your contacts without permission - CNET  CNET · 1 day
Facebook said it uploaded 1.5 million email addresses. Now you can see if yours was on the list. more
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Facebook's new top lawyer helped write Patriot Act - CNET  CNET · 2 days
Jennifer Newstead was also a legal adviser to the Trump administration's State Department. more
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Facebook Announces Its First Browser API for Chrome, Aimed at Speeding Up Experience  Gadgets 360 · 2 days
Facebook has announced its first major API contribution to Googles Chrome browser that is focused on making user experience smoother and faster. more
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Smoking, Depression Apps Seen Selling Your Data to Google, Facebook: Study  Gadgets 360 · 2 days
The study tracked three-dozen apps targeted at people with depression or who want to quit smoking. more
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Facebook's Flood of Languages Leave It Struggling to Monitor Content  Gadgets 360 · 2 days
Facebook offers its 2.3 billion users features such as menus and prompts in 111 different languages, deemed to be officially supported. more
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Sri Lanka Social Media Shutdown Raises Fears on Free Expression  Gadgets 360 · 2 days
NetBlocks says Sri Lanka blocked Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat, Viber, WhatsApp, and YouTube following the Easter bombings. more
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Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act  THE VERGE · 2 days
Jennifer Newstead, a Trump appointee who served in the Justice Department under President Bush, will soon be taking... more
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The CIA is joining Instagram  THE VERGE · 2 days
The Central Intelligence Agency will soon be launching an Instagram account, Director Gina Haspel said last week — and Instagram is helping them set it up.... more
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Facebook makes its first browser API contribution  TechCrunch · 2 days
Facebook today announced that it has made its first major API contribution to Google’s Chrome browser. Together with Google, Facebook’s team created an API proposal to contribute code to the browser, which is a... more
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Go-Jek brings in Misfit co-founder and ex-Facebook head to lead Vietnam business  TechCrunch · 3 days
Ambitious ride-hailing startup Go-Jek’s Southeast Asia expansion plan suffered a blow when it lost the leadership team behind its business in Vietnam, but now... more
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TED 2019: How to kill a zombie rumour and fix Facebook  BBC · 3 days
How to fix a "broken internet" has been a central question at TED 2019. more
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Sri Lanka Bombings: Government Blocks Social Media After Easter Sunday Attacks  Gadgets 360 · 3 days
The NetBlocks observatory said it detected an intentional blackout of popular services including Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber in Sri Lanka. more
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What you missed in cybersecurity this week  TechCrunch · 3 days
It’s been a busy week — it’s tough to keep up with all the cybersecurity news. We’ve collected some of the biggest cybersecurity stories from the week — from TechCrunch and afar — to... more
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Sri Lanka restricts access to social media sites following terror attack  THE VERGE · 3 days
A coordinated series of attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka this morning... more
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Facebook Still Hosting New Zealand Mosque Shooting Videos: Report  Gadgets 360 · 5 days
According to a report in Motherboard on Friday, certain videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw attack footage. more
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg May Be Held Accountable for Privacy by US FTC: Report  Gadgets 360 · 5 days
US federal regulators are reportedly considering seeking some kind of oversight of Mark Zuckerberg's leadership of Facebook over the social network giant's... more
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More than a month later, Facebook, Instagram host New Zealand shooting videos - CNET  CNET · 5 days
Some clips of the massacre merely include warnings they may contain “violent or graphic content," according to Motherboard. more
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How to change your Facebook password on iPhone  9to5Mac · 5 days
Want to know how to quickly change your Facebook password on iPhone? Read on below for how to do it... more
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Facebook's privacy mishaps: Zuckerberg could be held accountable, report says - CNET  CNET · 5 days
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's past remarks about privacy. more
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Report: FTC considering oversight of Facebook's Zuckerberg  ABC NEWS · 5 days
Washington Post says discussions between Facebook and Federal Trade Commission officials about the company's data-handing lapses have touched on instituting some sort of oversight for company CEO Mark Zuckerberg more
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Google and Amazon make peace, Facebook collects data without permission video - CNET  CNET · 6 days
In today's top stories Google's YouTube is coming back to the Fire TV, after settling a spat with Amazon. Meanwhile, Facebook says... more
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Facebook Bans Several UK Far-Right Groups and Individuals  Gadgets 360 · 6 days
Facebook says it has banned several British far-right groups and their leaders for spreading hatred. more
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Facebook Says It Stored 'Millions' of Unencrypted Instagram Passwords  Gadgets 360 · 6 days
"Millions" of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original estimate of tens of thousands. more
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New Mexico panel surprises Facebook with $39M utility bill  ABC NEWS · 6 days
A powerful regulatory authority in New Mexico is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction more
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Facebook says more Instagram passwords exposed than thought  ABC NEWS · 6 days
Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook had acknowledged nearly four weeks ago more
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Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in plain text  THE VERGE · 6 days
Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with... more
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Facebook Confirms Millions of Instagram Passwords Were Stored in Plain Text  MacRumors · 6 days
Back in March, Facebook announced that millions of Facebook passwords were stored on its... more
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Add Craigslist to the tech platforms Russians used to manipulate the 2016 election  TechCrunch · 6 days
In one of the weirder revelations to come out of the Mueller report released this morning, it seems that Craigslist was yet... more
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Facebook admits it insecurely stored ‘millions’ of Instagram passwords in plaintext  9to5Mac · 6 days
Last month, Facebook revealed that millions of Instagram and Facebook passwords were stored in... more
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Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users  TechCrunch · 6 days
Facebook has confirmed its password-related security incident last month now affects “millions” of Instagram users, not “tens of thousands” as first thought. The social media giant... more
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Facebook admits harvesting 1.5 million people’s email contacts without consent  THE VERGE · 6 days
Facebook has admitted to accessing and storing the email contacts of as many as 1.5 million... more
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Facebook's privacy crisis makes its Portal video device a tougher sell than ever - CNET  CNET · 6 days
Commentary: We were worried about Facebook long before the Portal emerged, but the smart display is a cry... more
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New Mexico panel blindsides Facebook with $39M utility bill  ABC NEWS · 6 days
A powerful regulatory authority in New Mexico is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction more
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Facebook bans several UK far-right groups and individuals  ABC NEWS · 6 days
Facebook says it has banned several British far-right groups and their leaders for spreading hatred more
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BNP and EDL among far-right groups banned by Facebook  Sky News · 7 days
The British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL) are among a number of far-right groups that have been banned by Facebook. more
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Facebook bans UK’s biggest far-right organizations, including EDL, BNP, and Britain First  THE VERGE · 7 days
Facebook has permanently banned the UK’s biggest far-right organizations and leaders, saying they fall under the social network’s new definition of “dangerous individuals and... more
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Facebook copied email contacts of 1.5 million users  BBC · 7 days
The social network was grabbing email contacts of some new users for almost three years, it says. more
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Facebook bans 12 'dangerous' British far-right groups and individuals - CNET  CNET · 7 days
The ban affects Nick Griffin and the British National Party, as well as Britain First and the English Defence League. more
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Facebook bans UK far right groups and leaders  BBC · 7 days
A dozen named groups and individuals will be purged from the social network, it said. more
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Facebook Harvested Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users Without Their Consent  MacRumors · 7 days
Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent... more
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Facebook scraped email contacts of 1.5 million users  BBC · 7 days
The social network was grabbing email contacts of some new uses for almost three years, it says. more
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Facebook Confirms It's Working on an AI-Based Voice Assistant for Its Products  Gadgets 360 · 7 days
Facebook is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Alphabet's Google Assistant. more
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Facebook Says It 'Unintentionally Uploaded' Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users  Gadgets 360 · 7 days
Facebook said it may have "unintentionally uploaded" email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016. more
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Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' email contacts from 1.5M users - CNET  CNET · 1 week
Contacts harvested during new account signups for nearly three years more
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Facebook to join Google, Amazon in developing voice-activated assistant technology  Global News · 1 week
Facebook Inc is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com Inc's Alexa, Apple Inc's Siri and Alphabet Inc's Google Assistant. more
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Wonderloop’s networking app lets you swipe left on video profiles instead of pictures  TechCrunch · 1 week
There isn’t much left to be done in online networking apps. We are all familiar with professional (LinkedIn), social (Facebook), realtime (Twitter),... more
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Facebook is working on a rival to Amazon's Alexa - CNET  CNET · 1 week
The social network would enter an already crowded field of voice assistants. more
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How to turn on Dark Mode in Facebook Messenger - CNET  CNET · 1 week
The feature is rolling out to everyone right now. more
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EAT Club acquires Taro to expand its corporate lunch program  TechCrunch · 1 week
EAT Club, the lunch delivery service that counts companies like Facebook, Postmates and others as customers, has acquired meal delivery service Taro. Financial terms of the deal were... more
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Pinterest's IPO shows the internet isn't always as awful as you thought - CNET  CNET · 1 week
Pinterest may not be as big as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat. But that could be a good thing. more
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We finally know why the Instagram founders really quit  THE VERGE · 1 week
Last year, in an effort to give shape to The Interface’s coverage area, I posted a public list... more
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The artificial intelligence field is too white and too male, researchers say  THE VERGE · 1 week
The artificial intelligence industry is facing a “diversity crisis,” researchers from the AI Now Institute said in a report released today, raising key questions... more
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Facebook’s Portal will now surveil your living room for half the price  TechCrunch · 1 week
No, you’re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you’re reading — Facebook really does sell a video chat camera adept... more
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged User Data to Help Friends and Punish Rivals  MacRumors · 1 week
Facebook's executive team, including Mark Zuckerberg, used the data of... more
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Instagram founders fought with Zuck over Facebook integrations, says report  THE VERGE · 1 week
Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, and in the seven years since, the photo... more
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The Facebook Portal gets a huge price cut: $99 - CNET  CNET · 1 week
Just in time for Mother's Day, the controversial but widely loved video-calling smart screen is 50 percent off. Plus: Save 20 percent on Game of Thrones... more
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Mark Zuckerberg used your Facebook data as 'bargaining chip' against rivals, report says - CNET  CNET · 1 week
Roughly 4,000 leaked Facebook documents reportedly show that privacy wasn't a major concern. more
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Facebook Messenger Officially Gets Dark Mode Globally, No Need to Send Moon Emoji  Gadgets 360 · 1 week
Facebook has officially rolled out dark mode for its Messenger app more
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Facebook is discontinuing P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15  TechCrunch · 1 week
Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the... more
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Facebook challenged to give TED talk on political ads  BBC · 1 week
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr challenges Mark Zuckerberg to address TED about "election fraud". more
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UK Proposes Banning Social Media 'Likes' for Children  Gadgets 360 · 1 week
Britain's privacy regulator wants to stop kids from being able to "like" posts on Facebook and other social media sites as part of tough new rules it's proposing to protect children's online... more
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Facebook Spotted Testing Merging of News Feed With Stories  Gadgets 360 · 1 week
Facebook News Feed and Stories are currently two distinct interfaces for its over 2.2 billion monthly active users. more
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U.K. proposes banning kids from Facebook 'likes' and Snapchat 'streaks'  CBC · 1 week
Britain's privacy regulator wants to stop kids from being able to "like" posts on Facebook and... more
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