The UK may release documents “within the next week” about Facebook’s knowledge of Russian interference on the social network, a member of Parliament said Tuesday. The documents may contain evidence that Facebook knew about the issue as early as 2014. Parliament seized the documents over the weekend from the founder of app development company Six4Three …
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Lawmakers from nine parliaments around the world met Tuesday in London to discuss the problem of disinformation on Facebook. But one seat at the table remained starkly vacant. Behind the nameplate “Mark Zuckerberg” was an empty chair. Zuckerberg declined repeated invitations to attend the inaugural session of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, which took place at the UK’s Parliament. …
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Facebook and Instagram were down for hours for some users on Tuesday, including in the US, a little more than a week after the world’s largest social network said a “routine test” caused the site to go offline. This time, the tech firm said that “a server configuration caused intermittent problems across all apps globally.” “We are back to 100% …
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Sure, Facebook screwed up on the Russia thing, but so did Congress, the media and US spy agencies. That’s the word from the social network’s former chief of security, Alex Stamos, who aired his views in a Washington Post opinion piece Saturday, three days after a front-page report in The New York Times threw a nasty light on Facebook and …
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Facebook is letting people delete their messenges, but you may not have access to the feature just yet. The Remove feature rolled out Thursday in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia and Lithuania on Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android, according to TechCrunch, which explained how the new feature works. We already knew you’d be able to delete sent messages within 10 minutes, …
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From Russian election meddling to a massive data privacy scandal, Facebook has faced a seemingly endless list of troubles. Now a new report suggests the social network’s leadership may be among its biggest challenges. Over the past three years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg ignored warnings, deflected blame and were distracted by other projects as the social network lurched from …
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It looks like Mark Zuckerberg can hold a grudge. The Facebook CEO reportedly ordered his management team to start using only Android phones after Apple CEO Tim Cook made public comments about the social media company’s Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a report Wednesday in The New York Times. “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Cook …
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What if instead of a bulky headset or cumbersome glasses to give you the futuristic augmented reality overlay of computer information on the real world, you could just wear contact lenses? That’s what Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision is aiming to let you do, people familiar with the matter say. The company, which just announced that it’s raised $50 million, …
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When it comes to taking down content, Facebook acknowledges it hasn’t always made the right decisions. The tech firm apologized for removing the iconic “Napalm Girl” photo in 2016 and has grappled with other public blunders. But as social networks face more pressure from lawmakers and users to pull down hate speech, terrorist content, nudity and other offensive items, digital …
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Twitter is a confounding place for many reasons, but perhaps its oddest quirk is that since its founding in 2006, it hasn’t had an edit button. That may change, and soon. CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly told an audience in India that the company is considering adding the edit functionality to tweets, primarily to fix typos. “We have been considering this for …
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