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…
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Facebook’s Slow Response To Enforcing Its Own Rules
By Kenneth White In Sri Lanka where ethnic tensions run deep, the government blocked access to Facebook last month amid a wave of violence against…
Facebook: 87 million users affected by Cambridge Analytica data collection
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook announced Wednesday that it believes up to 87 million users — mostly in the United States — were affected by…
Don’t quit Facebook, but don’t trust it, either
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?…
Regulating Facebook won’t prevent data breach
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…
Cambridge Analytica scandal: legitimate researchers using Facebook data could be collateral damage
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 suspends Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica
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 removes pages of far-right British group
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’s fact-checkers flag satire as fake news
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…
I Approved This Facebook Message — But You Don’t Know That
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 Made Fake Facebook Events, Retweeted Trump
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 Spreads Viral Fake News Story About Vaccines
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…
How to train your Facebook News Feed to give you the info you want
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…
Facebook to Prioritize ‘Trustworthy’ News
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…
Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware
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…
‘George Soros Funding Black Hate Groups:’ Most Outrageous Facebook Fake News Headlines
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…
Years on, creators of Facebook ‘Like’ button give idea thumbs down
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 Absolutely’ Supports Releasing Russia-linked Advertisements
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 ‘context’ button is latest effort to fight fake news
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…
The Justice Department Goes After Anti-Trump Facebook Groups
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…