Bumble will allow users to log in without Facebook
In response to recent concerns about Facebook's handling of user data, Bumble has announced it will drop its Facebook login requirement for users. The dating app will allow users to log in and register for an account using a phone number beginning tomorrow, according to a new report from Wired. …
Facebook explains how it can collect info about you even if you never post on Facebook
Facebook can collect a lot of data about you even if you seldom or never post to Facebook. In a blog post, the company explained it can collect info if you use the "like" button on a third-party site, sign in to an app using Facebook, and many other situations. …
Homicidal Asshole Rodrigo Duterte Claims Facebook Fact-Checkers Are Biased, Might Be Funded …
Rodrigo Duterte rode to the presidency of the Philippines through a wave of social media promotion. But the homicidal world leader, who has overseen the murder of over 20,000 people in a brutal crackdown on alleged drug dealers and users, isn't too happy with Facebook these days. Duterte claims … Read …
Facebook tracks you even if you’re not a user, and you can’t really do anything about it
We've talked about the fact that Facebook is tracking everyone online — even people who choose not to open a Facebook account — long before the Cambridge Analytica revelations came to light. But now that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress twice in as many days, we know for a …
Bumble drops Facebook login requirement
Facebook has long been a prerequisite for signing up for the service, along with competitors like Tinder, designed to help verify identities, offer common friends and speed up registration. But fallout from Facebook's most recent data sharing scandal has left plenty of users wary of the service and helped … Read …
‘Suspicious’ Groups Paid for Most of Facebook’s Politically Divisive Ads, Researchers Find
More than half of the sponsors of ads on Facebook that featured divisive political messages ahead of the 2016 presidential election have little or no public paper trails, according to a study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One-sixth of those ad buyers with little background … Read More
Facebook ad feature claims to predict user’s future behaviour
The product, named “loyalty prediction” by Facebook, is part of a suite of capabilities enabled by a machine learning-powered tool called FBLearner Flow. That tool was publicly introduced in 2016, but the advertising techniques it enables were only revealed in a pitch document leaked to the Intercept. Read More
The Problems Aren’t Over. Facebook Now Has to Deal With Its Declining Employee Morale
As Facebook deals with the public backlash of its latest data breach, a few of its employees have reportedly requested internal transfers and even left the company, says a New York Times report. The news comes in light of a recent scandal where data from 87 million users was inappropriately …
Facebook paid $7.3 million to protect Mark Zuckerberg last year
We require these security measures for the company's benefit because of the importance of Mr. Zuckerberg to Facebook, and we believe that the costs of this overall security program are appropriate and necessary. We paid for the initial procurement, installation, and maintenance of security measures … Read More
Facebook expels alt-right figurehead
Facebook has banned the American white nationalist who popularised the term "alternative right". Richard Spencer's page on the social network was removed on Friday along with two other pages he controlled: that of his National Policy Institute think tank, and one promoting his AltRight.com news … Read More