Facebook’s Election Safeguards Are Still a Work in Progress
Nearly three years after a Russian propaganda group infiltrated Facebook and other tech platforms in hopes of seeding chaos in the 2016 US election, Facebook has more fully detailed its plan to protect elections around the world. In a call with reporters Thursday, Facebook executives elaborated on … Read More
Facebook is defending itself again after an internal memo suggested growth was more important …
The memo, which was published by BuzzFeed, is from Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, one of Facebook's longest-tenured execs and one of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's closest colleagues. The memo, from 2016, is titled “The Ugly” and highlights that Facebook's work doesn't always have positive outcomes. Read More
Top Facebook exec defended data collection in leaked 2016 memo: ‘Maybe someone dies’
An explosive new memo details one of Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted executives attempting to justify growing concerns over the company's data collection methods, and its relentless push to acquire new users. Titled “The Ugly,” the memo has never been circulated outside of Facebook's offices until … Read More
Facebook exec in 2016 internal memo defends ‘ugly’ growth tactics, even if people use platform for …
Facebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth defended the company's "questionable" growth tactics in the name of connecting people, in an internal memo from 2016. He says now that he disagreed even at the time with what he wrote and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also says he "disagreed strongly" with its … Read More
Facebook users join call for regulation, survey finds
A new voice is joining the call for regulating social media sites like Facebook: the users themselves. Most Facebook users say they support some governmental regulation of the use and distribution of personal data on social media, according to a survey conducted exclusively for CNBC by Reconnect … Read More
Ad industry sources slam Facebook’s latest privacy move, say it actually consolidates Facebook’s …
Facebook is banning third-party data services from its ad targeting platform within the next six months. This limits the information companies have on purchase history, which is primary way they target customers especially among consumer product goods brands. Some agencies called the decision a … Read More
In a leaked memo, Facebook executive describes the consequences of its growth-at-all-costs …
A leaked memo from a Facebook executive has described the consequences of the company's growth-at-all-costs mentality. BuzzFeed on Thursday published a June 2016 memo by Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, who currently leads the company's hardware division, in which Bosworth says he wants “to talk … Read More
Facebook has released a more detailed plan to fight election interference for the 2018 midterms
We'll probably never know, but Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are trying to avoid another instance in the future where that might even be a question. The company published a blog post on Thursday outlining some of the steps it's taking to prevent foreign governments from using Facebook to try … …
Facebook was informed privacy breach app might sell user data
Facebook was informed that the app at the centre of a massive data leak could sell user data to third parties, according to documents seen by the Financial Times, raising fresh questions about how the company protects its users' data. The social network was sent terms and conditions for the …
Facebook begins ‘fact-checking’ photos and videos
Facebook has for months faced an uproar among users whose complaints range from the spread of fake news to the use of the network to manipulate elections and the harvesting of 50 million people's Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Manipulated photos and videos are … Read More