What Facebook won’t let you post
Technology
April 27, 2018
What Facebook won’t let you post
Facebook clarified exactly what you’re not allowed to post on the platform, and the list is super-long and specific. The…
So much for the campaign to Delete Facebook.
Technology
April 26, 2018
So much for the campaign to Delete Facebook.
Facebook (FB) reported Wednesday that it reversed its first ever decline in daily active users in the US and Canada…
AP FACT CHECK: Facebook’s reckoning, Trump’s agitation
World
April 14, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Facebook’s reckoning, Trump’s agitation
Facebook’s days of reckoning in Washington and President Donald Trump’s agitation with perceived political enemies made for a week of…
Grand Mufti says buying Facebook ‘likes’ is deceiving, forbidden in Islam
Technology
April 12, 2018
Grand Mufti says buying Facebook ‘likes’ is deceiving, forbidden in Islam
Egypt’s Grand Mufti has issued a ‘fatwa’ (religious ruling) against buying ‘likes’ on social media platforms, a mechanism commonly used by…
British lawmakers publish evidence from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
World
March 29, 2018
British lawmakers publish evidence from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
A committee of British lawmakers on Thursday published written evidence provided by a whistleblower who says information about 50 million…
Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
World
March 27, 2018
Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg will not answer UK lawmakers’ questions over data scandal
World
March 27, 2018
Facebook’s Zuckerberg will not answer UK lawmakers’ questions over data scandal
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will not answer questions from British lawmakers over how millions of users’ data got into the…
How Facebook was able to siphon off phone call and text logs
World
March 27, 2018
How Facebook was able to siphon off phone call and text logs
The news that Facebook’s Android app has been collecting call and text histories is yet another black eye for the social media…
Five alternatives to Facebook if you decide to delete your account
Technology
March 25, 2018
Five alternatives to Facebook if you decide to delete your account
As the Facebook crisis has escalated in recent days, calls for user account deletion have increased due to disclosure of…
Americans less likely to trust Facebook than rivals on personal data: Reuters/Ipsos poll
World
March 25, 2018
Americans less likely to trust Facebook than rivals on personal data: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Fewer than half of Americans trust Facebook (FB.O) to obey US privacy laws, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on…