Hacker promises to take down Zuckerberg’s Facebook page as you watch live
If you don’t have anything better to do on Sunday morning, and I do mean really early on Sunday, you may as well tune in …
WhatsApp is getting ads next year, but will it lose end-to-end encryption?
An interview with one of WhatsApp’s co-founders earlier this week confirmed that Brian Acton and Jan Koum left Facebook over huge differences with Mark Zuckerberg …
WhatsApp cofounder acknowledges ‘I am a sellout’ for going to work for Facebook
“I am a sellout. I acknowledge that.” WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, dressed in a WhatsApp baseball cap and T-shirt, said those words while sitting down …
Facebook scolds police: Stop making fake profiles to ‘friend’ and monitor activists
I live in Memphis, just like Bob Smith, and even though we’ve never met I happen to know a lot about him. I know, based …
EU commissioner probing Facebook calls it ‘a channel of dirt’ after deleting her account
Vera Jourova, the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, has been outspoken in her defense of why she thinks the EU needs to …
Facebook is using a meme-sniffing AI to hunt down offensive posts
Policing hate speech and offensive content on a platform as large as Facebook is a big challenge. Filtering for nasty words and phrases is simple …
Mark Zuckerberg blames all of Facebook’s problem on all those pesky human users
Mark Zuckerberg sums up a lot of the challenges Facebook has been confronted with this year in a new post he published today to his …
Ouch: 44 percent of younger users have deleted Facebook from their phone, Pew study finds
On a day when its chief operating officer was on Capitol Hill this morning getting a grilling from DC lawmakers, Facebook is also the focus …
The Justice Department is considering whether Twitter and Facebook are censoring users
The Justice Department is the latest branch of the government to take sudden concern with social media companies’ content moderation policies, according to a statement …
Instagram details big changes to account verification and other security features
If you’d like to have your Instagram account verified, you can now apply for it directly from your phone. It’s as easy as that. However, …
Stop using the creepy iPhone VPN app that Apple just forced Facebook to pull
Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN app is no longer available in the App Store. Apple didn’t ban the app, but it probably would have done it …
Facebook just pulled more fake news pages linked to Iran and Russia
Facebook on Thursday revealed that it has taken down more pages linked to Iran and Russia “for coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.” Most …
Here’s a first look at Facebook’s “Aloha” voice assistant that might power its smart speaker
Facebook is serious about raising its voice. An app researcher has discovered what appears to be code inside the main Facebook app and its standalone …
Looks like Facebook overreacted with that Boston data firm it suspended last month
Facebook acted fast last month to suspend a Boston-based data analytics firm, Crimson Hexagon, from accessing Facebook and Instagram once reports surfaced suggesting the social …
WhatsApp gets free backups on Google Drive in November
WhatsApp is one of the most popular mobile chat apps in the world with over 1.5 billion daily active users and more than 60 billion …
Russian hackers stole hundreds of Instagram accounts this month
If you’ve discovered that you can no longer log into your Instagram account, and trying to reset your credential leads nowhere because the account is …
To keep running a page with a ‘large audience,’ Facebook wants proof of where you live
Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a “large audience,” which is the somewhat nonspecific language Facebook uses in a new blog post today, …
Hackers found a way to alter sent WhatsApp messages, but don’t freak out just yet
Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is one of the most popular messaging applications out there. It’s available on virtually any platform, making possible encrypted chats and …
Facebook is shedding massive traffic – and it’s apparently flocking to YouTube
Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with CNBC by market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in …
The founders of a viral polling app showed Facebook a ‘psychological trick’ to target teens
When we reported last month that Facebook had decided to wind down tbh, the anonymous polling app for U.S. high schoolers that Facebook had just …
Get ready for Facebook ads in your WhatsApp chats
Purchased in 2014 for around $22 billion, WhatsApp is Facebook’s most expensive acquisition. It’s also one of Facebook’s major properties that are not bringing in …
How to monitor Facebook and Instagram screen time and limit activity
You probably don’t need your phone or the apps on it how much time you waste looking at the screen, but the ability to monitor …
John Oliver torches Facebook’s apology ad with a hilarious parody commercial
The public perception of Facebook as a company has never been great, but a series of scandals over the past few months, culminating with the …
Something has scared Facebook into spending another $10 million to protect Mark Zuckerberg
In response to what Facebook says are “specific threats” to the safety of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his family, the company says it’s spending another …
Yikes: Facebook just suffered the biggest one-day loss in stock market history
The day after it reported disappointing earnings for the second quarter and its stock dramatically crashed, Facebook saw about $120 billion wiped from its market …
The real cost of Facebook’s controversies: Nearly $150 billion in market cap gone in 90 minutes
The Facebook stock tanked back in March when the Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal hit, and it took the company quite a while to recover. …
Facebook’s disappointing Q2 earnings show why the company needs Instagram more than ever
Hours after its stock hit a record high during trading, Facebook reported its earnings for the second quarter and came in below analyst estimates on …
This could be another Cambridge Analytica for Facebook, not that anyone’s surprised
Well, here we go again. Facebook has suspended the Boston-based data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon from accessing its platform — a firm that, hoo boy, …
Maybe all these AI researchers Facebook wants to hire can fix its toxic News Feed
Facebook has found itself plenty bruised in the press and generally beaten up this week over its handling of content, its News Feed and the …
Anderson Cooper’s new show ‘Full Circle’ looks great – too bad it’s on Facebook Watch
As if CNN’s silver-haired journeyman anchor Anderson Cooper didn’t have a full enough day on Monday, with President Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki, he …
