Facebook, Twitter and Google aren’t prepared for deepfakes ahead of the US presidential election, a top Congressman said after the tech giants sent letters last week about how they deal with high-tech doctored videos and other kinds of media manipulation. The companies “have begun thinking seriously” about the challenges, said Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from …
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Last week, the Securities Exchange Commission slapped Facebook with a $100 million fine for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The complaint might now be settled on US soil, but the arrangement has raised new questions about Facebook’s handling of the situation for politicians in the UK who are also investigating the company’s actions. The UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, …
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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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Facebook said Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into the company, but the heightened regulatory scrutiny doesn’t appear to have slowed down the social network’s growth. The new investigation came on the same day that the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was hitting Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for its earlier privacy mishaps. It also …
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The US Department of Justice has announced an antitrust review of how online platforms achieved market power, and whether they are reducing competition, stifling innovation and harming consumers. While the Justice Department hasn’t named specific companies, it’s targeting tech giants including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal. Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the antitrust division …
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Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has sent letters asking Facebook, Google and Twitter how they plan to deal with deepfakes ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Schiff’s concerns follow the disinformation campaigns that spread across social media during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a statement released Monday. Deepfakes are fake videos or audio recordings that make people …
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Washington, DC, Attorney General Karl Racine has said his court case against Facebook for last year’s Cambridge Analytica data breach will go ahead. Facebook’s second attempt to block the lawsuit has now failed, Racine tweeted Friday. The DC attorney general sued Facebook in December, alleging that the company failed to safeguard the personal data of its users. Facebook’s “lax oversight …
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Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, spends a lot of time pondering the impact social media has on free speech. A constitutional law scholar, he often considers how power imbalances can stifle some voices. Not long ago, Feldman wondered whether Facebook could take a page from the legal system. The world’s biggest social network, he thought, could set …
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Instagram head Adam Mosseri said it might start hiding likes as it tries “rethinking the whole experience” of the social media site and fight bullying. He talked to CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King about this new approach — which prioritizes “well-being” — in a Wednesday interview with CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King. “One of the ideas we’re currently …
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In a sit-down interview with Gayle King for CBS This Morning, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri discussed some of the controversies surrounding the photo-sharing app. When King brought up the deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that circulated last week, Mosseri explained why the video wasn’t taken down right away. “We don’t have a policy against deepfakes currently,” he …
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