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Facebook Founder Meets With Law Enforcement
News January 19, 2017
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg meets with Dallas Police Department to discuss social media’s role in public safety. Social media and law enforcement agencies have a tenuous relationship built on pros and cons. On the one hand, sites like Facebook have become an incredible way to spread the word quickly to an entire... Read more
Zuckerberg To Visit Every State In The US: The Start Of A Political Career?
NewsSocial Media January 6, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, has given more credence to growing rumours that he is planning an eventual move into political life, by announcing that he intends to travel across the US in 2017, and meet people in every state. The news was released in a Facebook... Read more
Facebook, WhatsApp, And The (Alleged) Misleading Of The EU
NewsSocial Media December 28, 2016
Facebook has found itself formally accused by the European Commission’s merger and anti-trust watchdog of misleading EU oversight regulators over its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The European Commission says it was misled when Facebook said it was impossible to match users’ Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. In August, this year... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s Own Personal Jarvis
NewsSocial Media December 22, 2016
What’s better than an Alexa or a Google Home virtual assistant? Building one yourself, making it meet all your personal specs, having it customized to interact with all the members of your household, and getting to name it Jarvis after Tony Stark’s VA in Ironman. Of course, when you’re... Read more
Facebook Develops Tool To Censor Posts Based On Location
NewsSocial Media November 30, 2016
There’s never been a better time to install a VPN, especially if you’ve come to rely on your social media feeds to discover news articles that matter to you. According to a new report, Facebook has developed a tool that will let third-parties (ie, the government) censor posts based... Read more
Facebook Details How It Will Fight ‘Misinformation’ And Fake News Stories
NewsSocial Media November 25, 2016
With controversy still rampant over how big a role fake Facebook news stories played in the US Presidential election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg has publicly laid out new options for how the social network could handle ‘misinformation.’ Current President, Barrack Obama singled out Facebook and websites for the impact... Read more
Facebook Ad Blocker Blocking Sees Ad Revenue Jump 18%
NewsSocial Media November 4, 2016
Facebook has seen its desktop ad revenue grow by 18% compared to this time last year, and has said that bypassing ad blockers is the root reason for the increase in profits. “On ad blocking, in terms of the impact I would just point out that this quarter we... Read more
Workplace: Facebook’s New Business Software
NewsSocial Media October 12, 2016
Everything your boss hates about Facebook–namely, employees constantly checking it on their phones while they’re supposed to be at work–just got rolled over into a new productivity package that the social media giant hopes to monetize in a big way. Workplace, Facebook’s subscription-based productivity software, has launched as a... Read more
Germany Says Nein To WhatsApp Data Collection By Facebook
NewsPrivacy and Security September 28, 2016
The National Data Protection Authority in Germany has moved to block the recent privacy changes made by Facebook regarding the collection of data from the recently acquired WhatsApp messenger. German authorities have also ordered Facebook to delete any of the data it has already collected for an estimated 35... Read more
Facebook Co-Founder Donates $20 million to Clinton Campaign
NewsSocial Media September 12, 2016
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of social media giant, Facebook, has given a ‘number of organisations’ a $20,000,000 boost for the sole purpose of helping Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election. Announcing the multi million dollar contribution in a blog post on Medium, entitled “Compelled To Act“,... Read more
Facebook’s hope that it could relax the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, without kicking up a fuss, hasn’t worked, and has caused a worldwide backlash. When Facebook bought out WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014, the encrypted messaging app’s CEO Jan Koum said,... Read more
AdBlock Plus has reacted to the news that Facebook is to prevent ad blocking software from working on the desktop version of its social media site by labelling Facebook as ‘anti-user.’ We already published a story here this week about Facebook’s intentions to prevent adblockers from working on PCs... Read more
Facebook has, according to a post on their blog, found a way around installed adblockers on desktop browsers. Quite how the social media giant has managed this hasn’t been totally revealed as of yet, but if the news is correct, then even Facebook users deploying ad-blocking software will begin... Read more
The public has spoken, and social media giant Facebook listened…sort of. Serious social media users and comedians alike have long quipped about the need for a different set of reaction points on their fellow users’ posts. After all, clicking “Like” when someone announces they’re going through a hard time... Read more
In this day and age of privacy invasion–whether committed by hackers or by our own governments–end-to-end encryption in a messaging platform is highly sought after. It has the power to win over long-time devotees to a competing app, for example, as WhatsApp discovered when they unveiled their e-to-e offering.... Read more
If even the Facebook CEO covers his webcam with tapes, shouldn’t we all be doing it? When Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo earlier this week to mark Instagram’s 500th million user milestone, he probably didn’t imagine that what was going on in the background would garner more... Read more
US Spam Merchant Is Jailed For Two And A Half Years
News June 20, 2016
A US man responsible for sending more than 27 million spam emails will be checking his friend requests from a jail cell for the next two and a half years. Spam King Sanford Wallace pleaded guilty to charges including criminal contempt and fraud relating to the use of electronic... Read more
Facebook Is Not Deleting Your Photos
NewsSocial Media June 17, 2016
There’s a lot of talk going around that Facebook is deleting your photos, but that’s not the whole story. Facebook seems to be the social media platform that everyone loves to hate, yet everyone seems to use it. At least that’s the way it feels every time a new... Read more