Facebook says it is temporarily banning ads for gun accessories and military gear through next week's inauguration “out of an abundance of caution”
remove them permanently, conduct an independent investigation into how @Facebook enabled the insurrectionists and add an expert on countering extremism/domestic terrorism to your Board of Dir. https:/...
This year, disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures
Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic. Month after month, self-serving social media companies … Tweets: @janelytv , @newslitproject , @rasmus_kleis , @brucewilso...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public
The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters … Tweets: @calsunday , @joejerome , @calsunday , @calsunday , @privacyproj...
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network
and the human costs of that system. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Lara Korte / @lara_korte : Merry Christmas Eve — here's a new investigation by ProPublic/Buzzfeed to really pack on the guilt from...
Investigation finds IBM, Hikvision, and Huawei are helping the UAE government implement a biometric surveillance system in Dubai, raising privacy concerns
Face recognition has been banned in San Francisco and linked by AOC to a rise in global fascism. But it's being marketed in Dubai … Tweets: @buzzfeednews , @buzzfeednews , @evanselinger , @meghara , ...
Investigation reveals a network of 125+ Android apps and websites that are part of a massive ad fraud scheme; the apps were installed an estimated 115M+ times
straight up stolen by crooks! My latest investigation, and a thread: http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Maria Chong / @mariachong : Wow. “... a single mobile app could generate $75 million a year in sto...
Twitter investigates how cryptocurrency scammers changed handles on verified accounts and kept verified badges to trick users to send funds to scammer wallets
This is the Twitter account for Tron Foundation, the organization behind a cryptocurrency that has a current valuation of $2.8 billion. Tweets: @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @cwarzel , and @rmac18 Tweets...