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Here’s how to turn off the new Facebook face recognition feature

We like to keep close tabs on our social media presence. What we share with the world is an important choice to make. So when Facebook rolled out its new face recognition features, it was important to understand exactly what they were — and what to do if we weren't …

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You’ll find live MLB games on Facebook this season

It used to be that Facebook was a place you'd turn to keep tabs on family and friends. You'd see pictures of kids, dogs and whatever else people chose to share, while also getting a look at their daily lives by reading their posted status updates. Then, Facebook became a …

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Holy cow! Chick-fil-A cow dance video gets 11 million views on Facebook

A Hallsville, Texas, dance/drill team routine has received 11 million views on Facebook. What's so unique about their performance? The squad members are all dressed as Chick-fil-A cows, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help raised money for the Bobcat Belles, a National Grand … Read More

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Facebook will be the exclusive streaming home of 25 MLB game this season

If Facebook's 2017 streaming deal with Major League Baseball was a home run, the coming season's new deal is an easy grand slam. The social network has landed exclusive streaming rights for the broadcast of 25 MLB games from the coming season, starting on April 4. That means more games …

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UK Labour party suspends members in Facebook group rife with antisemitic posts

“That Jeremy Corbyn was a member of a Facebook group frequented by anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and Israel-hating conspiracy theorists is both appalling and utterly unsurprising,” she said. “We have long known about the kind of company that he keeps and this is simply further confirmation of a … Read More

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Breaking the Silence head part of anti-Semitic Facebook group?

Blogger David Collier had asked why Breaking the Silence head Avner Gvaryahu was part of the 'Palestine Live' Facebook group, a page that often trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes, such as discussion groups debating whether Jews control the world and discussing Israel's complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Read More

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Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the “American Dream”

It's the story of the American dream – how a kid from a working class North Carolina family went to Harvard, co-founded Facebook with Zuckerberg and their third roommate Dustin Moskovitz, and — in spite of his botched equity negotiations on the Harvard campus — made five hundred million dollars. …

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Views on Facebook need not be seen to count for Nielsen

Since January, Nielsen has started crediting video content distributed on Facebook and other platforms, enabling publishers to capture incremental secondary viewing. The move is part of a broader effort by Nielsen's parent company in the US to track web audiences off-platform in a fragmented … Read More

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Facebook Releases, Then Quickly Pulls, an App by Israeli Startup Onavo

Founded in 2009 and bought by Facebook in 2013 for an undisclosed sum, Onavo develops mobile safety and analytics apps such as the Extend and Count apps, designed to help mobile phone users manage their mobile data more efficiently, and the Onavo Protect app, a VPN service offered on iOS … …

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News from SXSW: Facebook says it’s ‘redefining its relationship’ with publishers

AUSTIN – Facebook really wants to gain the trust of publishers after a contentious year of fake news and algorithm changes, as well as concerns the giant social network is squeezing out news sites. At a panel discussion at the SXSW conference, Facebook's head of news product, Alex Hardiman, said … …