Facebook issued an apology on Friday after offensive terms appeared in the social network’s search predictions late Thursday. When users typed “videos of” into the search bar, Facebook prompted them to search phrases including “videos of sexuals,” “videos of girl sucking dick under water” and, perhaps most disturbingly, “video of little girl giving oral.” Shocked …
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Messaging service WhatsApp can’t legally share customer data with parent company Facebook in the UK, the local regulator said on Wednesday. The sharing of customer information between the two companies would breach data protection law, said the UK Information Commissioner in a blog post. Fortunately for Facebook, the Commissioner didn’t discover any evidence of data-sharing activities between the two services, …
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Get ready for less Facebook in your life. That’s not a typo. The world’s largest social network said Thursday that it’ll be releasing Facebook Lite, its pared-down app designed for people in developing countries with limited data plans, to the wider world, including Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the UK and US. Facebook is making the app only available on Android …
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Google is the latest company to crack down on advertising for cryptocurrencies. The search giant said Tuesday it will revise its ad policies in June to restrict ads for cryptocurrencies and related information, such as initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets and cryptocurrency trading advice. That ban goes for both ads on Google’s own website and sites Google serves …
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Reddit has been making waves over the past year by adding user profile pages and removing hundred of accounts suspected of sharing misinformation during the 2016 US election. In yet another evolution, the company on Wednesday announced it would sell promoted posts for its mobile apps. As reported by Marketing Land, Reddit sent an email to advertisers sharing the news …
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Facebook could be readying a News section on its Facebook Watch video service, in an apparent attempt to curb the spread of “fake news.” That’s the word from Axios, which reports that Facebook is in talks with 10 publishers to launch the dedicated news section. The section will reportedly run for 12 months, with Facebook requiring publishers to submit videos of …
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp is changing the amount of time you have to delete messages you’ve sent for all recipients. According to WABetaInfo, since the release of WhatsApp beta for Android 2.18.69, the messaging app allows users 2¹² seconds (4,096 seconds, which is 68 minutes, 16 seconds) to take back a message you didn’t want to send. It replaces it with a …
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FBI Director Chris Wray said last month he didn’t exactly trust products from Chinese telecom companies like Huawei and ZTE. Apparently, it’s a suspicion shared by Australia’s Defence Department. WeChat, an instant messaging app that’s huge in China, has been banned by the Defence Department, meaning it’s not allowed on any official’s phone, reports the Australian Finance Report. Facebook is …
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Facebook wants baseball fans to turn off their TVs and instead log on to its social network. The company said Friday it signed a deal with Major League Baseball to exclusively stream 25 games this season on Facebook. It’s the first time the social network has gotten access to games from a major sports league that won’t be shown on …
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We’ve gotten kind of use to Instagram stealing features from rival Snapchat. But here’s a case of the opposite. Snap-owned Snapchat is giving some users the ability to tag others in Stories with a link to their profile, just like you can do on Instagram. It appears the feature was first spotted by Twitter user and actor Matt Rappaport, TechCrunch reported. …
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