Facebook suspended 400 and banned one of the thousands of apps it’s investigated since the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal began in March, the company said Thursday. The company issued a full ban to myPersonality, one of the apps at the center of the scandal, on Wednesday after it didn’t agree to a request for …
Read More »
Teens are trying to be responsible users of technology, a new report says, attempting to monitor and control the amount of time they’re glued to screens. Roughly 52 percent of US teens say they’re taking steps to curb their mobile phone use, according to a Pew Research Center study published Wednesday. Similarly, 57 percent of teens are limiting their social …
Read More »
Facebook has removed its Onavo security app from Apple’s App Store after the iPhone maker reportedly determined the app violated its privacy rules. Apple officials told Facebook last week that Onavo violated the company’s policies on data collection by developers and suggested Facebook voluntary remove the app, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The app, which bills itself as a …
Read More »
The signs seem to be pointing toward the imminent release of Facebook’s next Oculus VR headset. The company is looking at the first quarter of 2019 to launch its higher-end standalone VR headset, code-named Santa Cruz, according to UploadVR. Like the Oculus Go, the next headset is designed to work without a PC, but “with cameras added for inside-out tracking …
Read More »
Facebook is looking to make its advertising platform less discriminatory. On Tuesday, the company said it had removed more than 5,000 ad-targeting categories in an effort to limit the ability of advertisers to exclude users based on ethnicity or religion. In the coming weeks, advertisers will have to go through a process of certification that’ll educate them on the …
Read More »
WhatsApp told India’s government on Tuesday it’s developing tools to crack down on rumors and false messages plaguing users of the app. Chris Daniels, CEO of the Facebook-owned messaging service, promised IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that it would figure out a solution, according to Reuters. The minister said he asked WhatsApp to develop a method of tracing the origin …
Read More »
Facebook is reportedly rating users’ trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The social network developed the ratings system in an effort to fight fake news on its platform, Tessa Lyons, the product manager in charge of fighting misinformation at Facebook, said in an interview published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Facebook relies on users flagging problematic content, but …
Read More »
Facebook is again being accused of blocking conservative voices. The social network apologized Friday to conservative group PragerU, saying it “mistakenly” removed several videos from the nonprofit’s Facebook page. In a tweet, Facebook said: “We mistakenly removed these videos and have restored them because they don’t break our standards. This will reverse any reduction in content distribution you’ve experienced. We’re very sorry …
Read More »
The US government has reportedly asked Facebook to help wiretap its Messenger chat app to listen to a suspect’s conversations in a criminal investigation, according to a report Friday by Reuters. That would involve breaking the encryption on the app, which is used by more than a billion people a month. The probe is related to the MS-13 gang in …
Read More »
Sorry Tweetbot, Twitterrific and the host of other third-party Twitter apps, the social network is moving on without you. Fan-favorite apps like Tweetbot, which offers an alternative way to access your Twitter feed, have lost several core features thanks to changes made to Twitter’s platform. Tweetbot specifically lost instant timeline streaming on Wi-Fi, and push notifications for likes, retweets, follows …
Read More »
