Tag: Facebook’s

30 JUL

Blue Lives Matter claims Facebook’s ‘fake news’ rules have halved its audience

Blue Lives Matter, a group advocating for greater protections for police in the US, has claimed that Facebook’s new rules to combat fake news has almost halved the number of people it can reach on the platform. The group said that the introduction of Facebook’s quality surveys, in which the platform asks users to rate […]

29 JUL

Facebook’s “downvote” system begins rolling out wider in US—here’s how it works

Enlarge (credit: Jean-Léon Gérôme / Getty / Aurich Lawson) Facebook’s latest dalliance with a “downvote” button launched this week as a limited test in the United States. The feature began appearing on the service’s mobile app without a formal company announcement—and we only found out about it by browsing on our phones. The feature appears […]

26 JUL

Facebook’s growth went into reverse for the first time, and the worst is yet to come (FB)

Getty Facebook saw a decline in monthly active users for the first time in its history. It’s a big deal because the decline was in Europe, which has just introduced the strict new GDPR privacy regulation. It shows that regulation is capable of curtailing Facebook’s massive growth and capping its revenue. The worst is yet […]

26 JUL

‘The company is far from out of the woods’: Here’s what Wall Street is saying about Facebook’s bombshell Q2 earnings

Getty Facebook lost almost $ 150 billion off its value on Wednesday after the company missed Wall Street’s expectations on revenue growth and user numbers. Analysts lowered their price targets and said the worst is yet to come for Mark Zuckerberg‘s company. Follow Facebook’s stock price in real-time here. Facebook stock took an insane pummeling […]

24 JUL

Facebook’s top security exec called for huge changes to solve the company’s problems in a leaked memo (FB)

Win McNamee/Getty Images Facebook’s security boss Alex Stamos called on Facebook to make some major changes in the wake of its string of scandals in March 2018. BuzzFeed News has published an internal memo in which the exec argues that the company needs to collect less user data and listen to people’s concerns about it […]

11 JUL

Questions are being raised about Facebook’s decision to give a Russian internet company temporary special access to its user data (FB)

Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Facebook acknowledged that it gave Mail.Ru special access to user data after 2015, when it officially ended the system that allowed third-party apps to access user data. Mail.Ru was among dozens of companies that were granted special temporary access to Facebook user data. Mail.Ru has ties to the Kremlin, […]

03 JUL

FBI, SEC and FTC are also investigating Facebook’s data leak

Facebook has to deal with multiple federal agencies simultaneously investigating its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. According to The Washington Post, the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have joined the DOJ’s probe into the two companies. The New York Times reported back in May that the […]

19 JUN

Facebook’s live gameshows could take a bite out of HQ Trivia

Instead of creating its own HQ Trivia competitor, Facebook has taken a broader approach and created an entire gaming platform. The company announced polls for Live and on demand videos as well as new gamification features for Live videos. Partners like Insider, BuzzFeed and Fresno can add polls, quizzes and challenges to both individual videos […]

30 MAY

Evan Spiegel took a snarky swipe at Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook’s data scandal (SNAP)

Snap/YouTube Snap CEO Evan Spiegel couldn’t resist a dig at Mark Zuckerberg over the Cambridge Analytica crisis. After Facebook cloned Snapchat features like “Stories,” he said: “We would really appreciate it if they copied our data protection practices also.” He said the tech industry is suddenly alive to the fact that privacy, and not “hoarding” […]