Supporters, founders and employees of sex tech and women’s wellness startups like Dame Products and Unbound Babes assembled outside Facebook’s New York office Wednesday. The crowd protested the social media site’s policies, which don’t let the companies run ads for their products. Polly Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder of Unbound Babes, told CNET the event had a …
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Facebook’s controversies with political campaigns march ever on. Vice President of Facebook Asia Pacific Simon Milner reportedly delivered a judgement on Facebook’s handling of potential fake news that spread on its platform during Australia’s federal election this past May. In correspondence seen by Guardian Australia, reported Tuesday, Facebook executive Simon Milner reportedly said it is not “our role to remove …
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WhatsApp is launching a payments system later this year, starting in India. Will Cathcart, the Facebook subsidiary’s global head, said Wednesday the company has been testing its payments in India since last year, according to Business Today. The messaging app has 400 million users in India and 1.5 billion globally, the report says, with the payments announcement coming as Facebook …
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Facebook’s ‘Like’ button might not appear to be one of the internet’s most complex tools, but there’s more to the little upturned thumb than meets the eye. Some companies, for instance, use that Like button on their websites as a plugin, and on Monday Europe’s top court decided that they are jointly responsible with Facebook for the transfer of people’s …
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There are numerous reasons to delete or deactivate your Facebook account. You might be concerned about how the social networking site compromised and exposed the private data from millions of its users. Or you might be upset with the inadvertent role Facebook played spreading false information from foreign governments about US candidates in the 2016 presidential election. Or you could …
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Australia’s antitrust watchdog wants to create a branch dedicated to investigating the impact on competition by Facebook and Google. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission report follows an 18-month probe and comes just after the US Federal Trade Commission slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over privacy issues. Australia’s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, told reporters that the fine revealed how …
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President Donald Trump has tweeted a response to a law passed in France two weeks ago that will require American tech giants to pay higher taxes. Trump hinted that French wine could be subject to a new tariff thanks to what he called French President Emmanuel Macron’s “foolishness.” France passed the law a day after the Trump administration announced plans …
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Facebook removed nearly 300 accounts, along with multiple pages, groups and Instagram accounts, as part of its latest purge of “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The social network on Thursday said the accounts stemmed from four unconnected campaigns originating in Thailand, Russia, Ukraine and Honduras. In total, 294 accounts, 1,509 pages and 32 groups were removed in the past week. Facebook said …
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Firefox Reality, Mozilla’s virtual reality browser, now supports Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset. It already worked with the HTC Vive Focus Plus, the Lenovo Mirage and some other VR headsets. But the $400 Oculus Quest, with no wires tethering your headset to a PC, is a new, high-profile option in the world of VR. My colleague Scott Stein says the Quest’s …
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Following its announcement of a $5 billion fine for Facebook Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against the company at the center of privacy scandal, Cambridge Analytica. The complaint says that the data firm was responsible for “deceptive acts and practices to harvest personal information from Facebook users.” The FTC also settled with the app develop Aleksandr Kogan, …
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