Tag Archives: Facebook

Over the course of 2020, TikTok’s future has sometimes seemed to be on a knife edge. The Trump administration tried (and failed) to ban the platform, citing concern over data security for TikTok’s US users. And the administration is now forcing Chinese parent company Bytedance to sell the short-form video app’s US operations. But TikTok’s …

Facebook is reportedly working on a major overhaul of its algorithms that police hate speech on its platforms. The changes, which are still in the early stages, include reengineering its automated moderation systems to better detect and remove hateful language that’s considered the “worst of the worst,” according to The Washington Post, which cited internal Facebook documents.  The massive social …

There’s one thing Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer always tells new engineers starting work at the company. “There are going to be a lot of people in the world who have opinions and high expectations of the work we do,” he says. “And that is entirely appropriate given the reach and scale of the products we build — it’s simply our …

Amnesty International has released a new report condemning tech giants as being complicit in censorship across Vietnam, with “state-sponsored harassment rampant” on YouTube and Facebook, the report said. The two social media platforms are “tools of the Vietnamese authorities’ censorship and harassment of its population,” according to the human rights organization’s 78-page report published Monday. Amnesty International said the two …

Facebook is trying to encourage more people to use the social network to give back during the holidays amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, the company said it’s releasing a new tool in the US that will allow users to create and donate to holiday drives where people collect food, clothes and other necessities for those in need. To create …

Jason Schaal was sitting at home in Minneapolis last month when he opened his phone to check his email. Among the messages was one from Uber bearing the subject line, “Make your voice heard.” It said the US Department of Labor was hammering out countrywide rules “to determine the independent status of gig workers” and asked Schaal to comment on …

Facebook said Thursday that it’s catching more hate speech before users report it, because of improvements to its artificial intelligence technology.  From July to September, Facebook’s AI tools proactively detected 94.7% of the hate speech removed by the company, up from 80.5% in the same period last year, Facebook said. The social network attributed the uptick to improvement in its …

Facebook on Wednesday said it’s making its experimental iOS app E.gg available for download to anyone in the US. The social media giant unveiled the app, which is based on bringing back the internet of the ’90s, in July. It’s the creation of Facebook’s experimental app team, New Product Experimentation, and is “a platform for freeform creative expression,” the company says. “E.gg …

Twitter has slowed down the release of its new Fleets feature, saying it needs “to fix some performance and stability problems.” Fleets is Twitter’s attempt to capitalize on the popularity of other social media platforms like Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram by bringing in its own “stories” that disappear within 24 hours. “If you don’t have the feature yet, you may …

Cheeps, there are interesting things afoot: Starting this Sunday, Nov. 22, Target will offer a TCL 4 Series 65-inch 4K UHD Android TV for just $230, which beats the $250 Hisense deal that sold out so quickly yesterday. Of course, you’ll be competing against the entire interwebs to get one (same as with that Hisense), so keep your expectations in …