Facebook is now partnering with "third-party fact checkers" to investigate photos and videos published on the company's platform - while also attempting to filter out fraudulent accounts...
In what appears to be the first major data breach involving a health-and-fitness-tracking app, Under Armour disclosed that its MyFitnessPal app had experienced a breach that potentially exposed the user data of 150 million people.
On Thursday, online data broker Acxiom lost up to a third of its market cap, its biggest drop this century, after Facebook announced it would change its privacy policy.
Facebook is making an unprecedented effort to reassure its billions of users after years of surreptitiously hoovering up reams of data before packaging it and selling it to the highest bidder.
In a supercharged media environment in which Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp have become the primary means by which literally billions of people consume news, mass producing propaganda has never been easier...
Fakebook was a scam from the start, now the world has seen it for what it really is, and there's no turning back - the genie is out of the social media bottle.
"There are more than 25 million fans who engage with Playboy via our various Facebook pages, and we do not want to be complicit in exposing them to the reported practices..."
Facebook announced a reorganization of the privacy settings that users and have long criticized as a seeming afterthought, and which will provide for better privacy data control and make it easier for users to find, download and delete data.
Digital hucksters once had to guess what kind of person might fall for their unsophisticated cons, targeting ads by age, geography, or interests. Now Facebook does that work for them.
