Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
it was begun for hookups, parties, and puppies but readers and publishers added news in their own posts. News came to depend on Facebook for links and audience — that's why publishers put links there...
FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : FTC Alleges...
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
whose ads are already public and whose data Facebook stores in a public archive. https://www.protocol.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : NEW: Senate Intel Chair @MarkWarner condemns Facebook's decision...
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...
The technocratic language Facebook uses in its takedown reports hides the human trauma caused by material that exists only because Facebook made it possible
These reports obscure a torrent of hate speech and other toxic content — If — you've never read a Facebook … Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sagelazzaro , @jackiehluo , @funnymonkey , @tressiemcphd , @o...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
White House: draft EO ordering probes into practices of Facebook and Google is not an official document; sources: Yelp sent email with the draft EO to WH aides
Immigrant kids are in cages and U.S. no longer part of the Paris Accord but it's declaring FB/GOOG monopolies that's insanity?http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Btw if th...
Interview with Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher, an ex-DOJ prosecutor, who focuses on shutting down foreign interference on Facebook
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney : Tweets: @ericgoldman Tweets: Eric Goldman / @ericgoldman : It was a huge failure that Facebook & other social media services didn't anticipate Russian election hacking. ...