The $3 million, three-month-long pilot brings in 13 metropolitan newsrooms: the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, The Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Omaha World-Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The … Read More

The Illinois law included in its purview “faceprints,” which is what companies like Facebook and Google use to identity you in photos. They create faceprints by analyzing your face in the many tagged photos of you that have already been uploaded to their servers. Class-action lawsuits were filed against … Read …

Facebook is trying to play extra nice with local news publishers by putting $3 million behind the launch of the Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. The three-month pilot program will help 10 to 15 U.S.-based metropolitan news organizations gain more digital subscribers both on and off Facebook. Read More

Facebook users have been noticing a strange new notification in their News Feeds, letting them know about the platform's increasingly comprehensive facial recognition features. Users with further questions are directed to a privacy page with more information and more detailed instructions for opting out … Read More

Just because Facebook is downplaying publishers in your News Feed doesn't mean it's uninterested in giving media outlets a helping hand. The social network's Journalism Project is launching a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator that will help "metro newspapers" grow their reader bases. The $3 … Read More

"Mark's personal challenge for 2018 is to fix Facebook, so when you talk about separating recruiting and retention, I actually think its quite part and parcel of recruiting people who want to work on the most important problems about connecting the world," she said during Glassdoor's Best Places to Work … …

YANGON: Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate speech. Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar's Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement, had … Read More

Participating organizations will receive coaching from digital subscription experts and take part in weekly training sessions. Facebook has been criticized for diverting traffic from traditional news publishers, despite insisting that it's not a media company. The pilot program through the Facebook … Read More

The Facebook Journalism Project has announced a new program today called Local News Subscriptions Accelerator that will work with several local US outlets over the next three months to help bolster their subscription efforts. The pilot program has $3 million in funding and will work with 10 to 15 news … …

The so-called financial internet stands the Facebook business model on its head. With Facebook, users post content on the site and the company collects the money — last year, $41 billion in revenue. On Steemit, the money goes in the other direction. Facebook, with 2.1 billion monthly users, may not … …