Instagram, like Facebook, is problematic
With Facebook in the news for all the wrong reasons this week, it may be tempting to overlook the social media giant's photo-oriented sibling, Instagram. That would be unwise. Instagram, which you should absolutely never forget is owned by Facebook, has around 800 million monthly active users … Read More
Billionaire Who Sold WhatsApp to Facebook: ‘Delete Facebook’
Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum, sold the messaging platform to Facebook in 2014. It was a simpler time, long before all of the shit hit the fan for Facebook. Since November, we've found out that Facebook was used by Russian spies to influence elections and that it …
WhatsApp Co-Founder Says #deletefacebook; Here’s What He May Have in Mind Instead
Brian Acton, co-founder of the popular encrypted messaging app WhatsApp, is turning against the company that made him rich: Facebook. In 2009, Acton, along with Jan Koum, created WhatsApp, a messaging application which relies on Wi-Fi, allows users to signal whether or not they are available, … Read More
WhatsApp co-founder, who made billions from Facebook, suggests deleting your profile
“It is time. #deletefacebook” tweeted Brian Acton, the WhatsApp co-founder. Acton is the most prominent voice to use the #deletefacebook hashtag on Twitter after reports published Saturday said the data mining company Cambridge Analytica had allegedly harvested personal information from 50 million … Read More
Amnesty International says Twitter doesn’t respect women’s human rights — and it’s projecting …
Amnesty International has launched a #ToxicTwitter campaign to accompany a newly-released report detailing Twitter's failure to create an environment that respects women's human rights. As part of the campaign, Amnesty projected images of real abusive tweets received by women on the Twitter … Read More
‘Black Panther’ Breaks Twitter Record
This is What's Trending… The superhero movie Black Panther has already broken records at the box office. Now, it has broken a record on Twitter, too. The social media company says Black Panther is officially the most-tweeted-about movie ever. Twitter said this week that the film has been tweeted … Read …
Twitter’s chief information security officer leaves
Twitter has confirmed that its chief information security officer will be leaving the company, at a time of heightened scrutiny over what steps social media companies are taking to safeguard user data and combat disinformation. Michael Coates will be leaving to start his own company, according to a … Read More
The six ways Facebook plans to prevent another Cambridge Analytica incident
The professor who created the app, Aleksandr Kogan, had told Facebook he was creating the app for academic research purposes, but he shared the personal information with Cambridge Analytica. Though only 270,000 people downloaded the app, because it also captured from users' friends, the data … Read More
Should You Delete Your Facebook Account?
If every new communications technology contains within it the seeds of its own demise, we might have just witnessed Facebook's death sprouts breaking ground. Mark Zuckerberg's social media site, which made so many of us giddy with gladness not long ago for the way it plugged us in to our …
Zuckerberg admits mistakes in protecting Facebook users
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, admitted his company made mistakes in protecting the privacy of users as he made his first public comments on reports that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from more than 50m accounts on the social network. The 33-year-old Facebook founder … Read More