Facebook said Wednesday it had removed million of posts for violating rules against hate speech, sexual activity and other offensive content between April and September, a move that comes as the social network struggles to determine how free-wheeling it will allow the site to become. For the first time, Facebook also released data about content …
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Let’s get crafting! Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s new augmented-reality app for iOS and Android phones, is now available in the US. The mobile game, which has been slowly rolling out to countries this fall, lets you explore, gather items, find monsters and go on adventures in an AR world on your phone. Over 10 years, we’ve played the blocky game on …
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For a couple of years now, skeptical politicians across the western world have been wondering whether US tech giants are getting too big for their own good. It’s sparked the question as to whether companies such as Facebook, which owns a bunch of competing messaging services as well as Instagram, should be broken up. But ask one of Silicon Valley’s …
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Twitter will stop selling ads concerning candidates for office, elections or political issues such as climate change and immigration, the company’s CEO said Wednesday, staking out a position that sets the social network apart from industry giant Facebook. In a series of 11 tweets, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the changes, which will take effect next month. He argued that …
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Facebook’s massive advertising business and user base keep growing despite a seemingly endless list of scandals, including criticism over a new policy that allows politicians to lie in ads on the social network. On Wednesday, Facebook said that 2.45 billion users logged in to the site every month during the third quarter, an uptick of 8% from 2.27 billion monthly …
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A California man is running for the governor’s office in that state so he can run false ads on Facebook. He says his intention is to stop the social network from allowing politicians to run ads on the site that contain falsehoods. Since the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has been trying to prove it’s combatting misinformation on the site …
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Facebook took down a political ad from its platform for containing false information about Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the company’s ads database shows. The move demonstrates that while politicians’ ads are exempt from fact checking, ads purchased by political groups aren’t. The ad, which was placed by the political action committee The Really Online Lefty League, included a video that falsely …
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Facebook said Friday that it’s testing a tab that will display curated news stories, a move that could help the social network surface more credible media outlets as it tries to curtail the spread of misinformation. “It’s no secret that the internet has really disrupted the news business model,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday at an event in New York …
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gave a resounding negative answer when asked whether his social media platform would be joining Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project, according to multiple reports. During a Twitter event in New York City Thursday, Dorsey said “hell no” to the prospect. Facebook in June unveiled the global digital coin, which will be managed by a governing body called the Libra …
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If all Facebook cared about was the money it makes from political advertising, the company wouldn’t be doing it, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday. The social networking giant continues to answer questions about its decision to run political ads, including those with misleading information, without fact checking them. Instead, Facebook believes political ads are an important part of discourse. “It’s not …
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