Facebook Reacts to Hate Group with Ban
By Kenneth White Several of Richard Spencer’s Facebook pages have been removed as of Friday last week. Facebook has not commented on the move to…
Read MoreBy Kenneth White Several of Richard Spencer’s Facebook pages have been removed as of Friday last week. Facebook has not commented on the move to…
Read MoreBy Kenneth White In Sri Lanka where ethnic tensions run deep, the government blocked access to Facebook last month amid a wave of violence against…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook announced Wednesday that it believes up to 87 million users — mostly in the United States — were affected by…
By Luke Stark, Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, Dartmouth College and Denise Anthony, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College. What is this man doing with your data?…
Facebook already controls how its users’ data can be gathered and shared. It’s university ethics boards that need to join the digital age. Shutterstock William…
Annabel Latham, Manchester Metropolitan University The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a…
Facebook says it has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm hired by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, amid reports it harvested…
Facebook announced Wednesday it had removed the pages of far-right group Britain First and its two leaders for posting content “designed to incite animosity and…
Facebook on Friday said it mistakenly threatened to demonetize a satirical website’s social networking account after one of its articles, “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine…
Hundreds of federal political ads — including those from major players such as the Democratic National Committee and the Donald Trump 2020 campaign — are…
Russian bots retweeted Donald Trump nearly half a million times in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, and more than 60,000 Americans RSVP’d for…
Facebook just helped a fake news article spreading dangerous misinformation about the flu vaccine go viral. The fake article claims an unnamed “CDC doctor” said…
Feed the news need of the new Facebook News Feed. News Feed Keep the news in your Facebook view. David Nield Facebook constantly tweaks its…
Social media giant Facebook said Friday that it would begin to prioritize “trustworthy” news outlets on its site in order to counteract “misinformation.” The company…
In September, an ad with the headline, “New Approval Ratings For President Trump Announced And It’s Not Going The Way You Think,” targeted Facebook users…
Facebook and its Silicon Valley social media rivals are once again in “we’ll do better” mode after offering their largest figures yet on the hundreds…
A decade ago, Justin Rosenstein and Leah Pearlman were part of a small team of Facebook employees that designed the “Like” button, a little blue…
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Thursday she “absolutely” supports the public release of all advertisements produced by a Russia-linked organization during the 2016…
Facebook said Thursday it was testing a new “button” to allow users to get more context about a news source, in the latest move by…
Lawyers working for the Trump administration filed three search warrants demanding private account information for thousands of Facebook users, including “anti-administration activists who have spoken…
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