Facebook removed all references to Russia from a public report in April concerning manipulation of its platform during the 2016 presidential election, according to a The Wall Street Journal report Thursday. Mentions of Russia were eliminated due to concerns among Facebook’s lawyers and members of its policy team that the company’s understanding of Russian activity …
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When it came to interference with the 2016 election, tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google “did not take this threat seriously enough,” Democratic Sen. Mark Warner told reporters at a press conference at the US Capitol on Wednesday. Warner and Republican Sen. Richard Burr addressed reporters to give an update on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into allegations of …
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Twitter may be dominated by trolls. Facebook may be manipulated by Russians scheming to divide us. But Instagram wants to be associated with something a lot more warm and fuzzy: kindness. A year ago, Instagram Chief Executive Kevin Systrom asked himself if they could create a service that wasn’t “a cesspool of hateful comments,” he said at the Vanity Fair …
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About 10 million Facebook users saw Russian-linked ads placed on its service during the 2016 US election campaign, the social media giant said Monday. About 44 percent of the ads were seen before election, while 56 percent were seen afterward, Elliot Schrage, the company’s vice president of policy and communications, wrote in a blog post. The figures were among the …
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To everyone who’s been unhappy with Facebook, its CEO is saying sorry. Mark Zuckerberg wrote an apology on Saturday, seeking forgiveness and repenting for the ways Facebook served to cause division. The Facebook post was published on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. While he didn’t specify which problems he was referring to in the post, Reuters …
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Today, Facebook is delivering copies of 3,000 ads to Congress that were likely bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign. But the social media company is also pushing to improve how its ad transparency works in the future. Facebook aims to hire 1,000 people to its global ad review team over the next year, along with instituting other changes …
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Turns out it’s not just web hosting provider DreamHost that’s fighting Justice Department search warrants on users linked to an anti-Trump site associated with inauguration protests. Facebook is in the same boat. The Justice Department in February issued three warrants to search the Facebook accounts of people associated with violent protests of President Donald Trump‘s inauguration. The warrants — which name …
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Social media accounts linked to the Russian government attempted to intensify racial tensions during the US elections in 2016, CNN reported late Thursday. The accounts, which used the moniker “Blacktivist,” regularly shared content intended to fuel the outrage of their audiences, including videos of police violence against African Americans. “Black people should wake up as soon as possible,” read one …
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Family Link, Google’s software for getting kids their own Android phones with some parental oversight, is now available to anyone in the US. The company unveiled Family Link in March as an invitation-only service that opens up Gmail accounts and other services needing a Google account to children 12 and under. Now anyone in the US can get Family Link …
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