Don’t let Facebook off the hook
Goldman is Facebook's vice president for advertising, and according to his Twitter bio, a “student, seeker, raconteur, burner.” On Friday, he took to Twitter to proclaim his company's innocence. He was, he wrote, “very excited to see the Mueller indictment today,” since Facebook had “shared Russian ads … Read More
Facebook data is powering Stanford economist’s American inequality study
Facebook is sharing some of your financial secrets with the world's leading researchers. The tech giant has offered up some of its massive treasure trove of personal data to academia. Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty has been leading a team working on an America inequality study, and in a … Read …
Big Stock Sales: Alibaba, Amazon, Facebook
William Blair made some other decisive moves in the fourth quarter, including ramping up its investment in Netflix (NFLX) and cutting back on Facebook (FB), Amazon.com (AMZN) and class A shares of Alphabet (GOOGL). On Dec. 19, William Blair posted an update about the shift to streaming content … Read More
Facebook makes it easier to share detailed 3D objects
Facebook has had the option to post 3D objects for a while, and now you'll have some better reasons to use it. The social site has introduced support for a standard 3D file format (gITF 2.0) that not only allows for richer objects with more realistic rendering like textures and …
How to find out if someone has BLOCKED you on Facebook
With these three simple steps, Facebook users can now find out who has blocked them online. Firstly, go to the search bar and type in the name of the suspected blocker. If you can't find them, they've either deleted their account or you've been blocked. Next dig out an old …
Facebook’s plan to unite AR, VR, and News Feed with 3D posts
What if you could digitally sculpt a 3D object and share it on Facebook, play with it in virtual reality, or insert it into your world with augmented reality? Facebook is polishing up stages one and two today after first debuting posts of interactive 3D models in News Feed in …
Facebook Is Counting On Postcards To Prevent Future Election Interference
For a company that's all about the future of communication, Facebook is looking to the past to solve at least some of its problems. After months of intense scrutiny over the role the company played in the 2016 presidential election, the social network giant announced it wants to use postcards …
A Facebook executive learned a valuable lesson about using Twitter after he publicly contradicted …
On Friday, Facebook's VP of ads Rob Goldman tweeted about key facts of the Russian interference campaign in the US presidential election that "were not well understood." Goldman's tweet made it sound like they were contradicting the work done by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team, who … Read More
Facebook Messenger: Here’s How to Change Your Story’s Privacy Setting
Did you know that you can choose which users are allowed to see your Story posts on Facebook and Facebook Messenger? Our guide will show you how to change your Story's privacy setting within the Messenger application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Messenger app on iOS. Read More
Facebook exec apologizes for tweets about special counsel’s Russia investigation
An executive at Facebook has apologized for making statements on Twitter after special counsel Robert Mueller handed down 13 indictments of Russian nationals for their role in meddling in the 2016 election. WIRED reports that Rob Goldman, vice president for ads on the social media site, issued a … Read More