A Senate hearing on Wednesday was supposed to put Facebook and Twitter under the microscope, but Chinese device makers Huawei and ZTE ended up catching some of the flak, too. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg came to Capitol Hill to offer insight about how foreign governments are using their sites to …
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Twitter returned to its role of punching bag Wednesday over suggestions of partisan bias, at a US House hearing grilling CEO Jack Dorsey. A Senate hearing earlier in the day, which also questioned Facebook‘s Sheryl Sandberg, barely mentioned political censorship, but the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee opened its session with words about bias and “shadow banning.” “We hope you can …
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Two months ago, Microsoft said it didn’t have specific plans to create an Xbox VR headset. What it didn’t say is that it had been working on a device, but put existing VR plans on hold until better technology comes along. Microsoft courted partners over the past couple years to create games for a virtual reality headset designed to work …
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Facebook suspended 400 and banned one of the thousands of apps it’s investigated since the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal began in March, the company said Thursday. The company issued a full ban to myPersonality, one of the apps at the center of the scandal, on Wednesday after it didn’t agree to a request for audit. The social network suspended the …
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Researchers want Facebook to change its rules, making it easier for journalists and academics to undertake investigations and studies on the social network. The Knight First Amendment Institute, a nonprofit organization at Columbia University, on Monday sent a letter asking CEO Mark Zuckerberg to amend Facebook’s terms of service and create a “safe harbor” for social media research and public …
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Facebook and its Instagram photo service remain popular places for neo-Nazis and white supremacists to sell merchandise championing an ethnostate, according to a report. Children’s T-shirts bearing slogans such as “White baby — the future of our race” and magazines supporting Nazi ideology are available on the social networks, HuffPost reported on Thursday. Facebook reportedly removed White Rex, a Russian-owned neo-Nazi brand, …
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Facebook is directing $4.5 million toward helping the news industry, by donating to a fund for nonprofit newsrooms and kicking off a program to help publishers that need memberships to make money. The world’s largest social network, which earned more than $5 billion in profit in its latest three-month quarter, said earlier this year that it would renew its focus …
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Facebook’s and Instagram’s newest features? Tools to help you spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. Social networking giant Facebook, which owns Instagram, unveiled new additions Wednesday aimed at letting people better manage their time on the apps. One new feature will let you see a dashboard that tells you how much time you’ve spent on Facebook or Instagram that …
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The parents of one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting want to know why Mark Zuckerberg has made Facebook “a safe haven for hate.” Lenny Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose 6-year-old son Noah Pozner was killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack spoke directly to the social network’s founder in an open …
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Expect another black eye for Facebook come Sunday. The world’s largest social network has been “disingenuous” with UK lawmakers investigating fake news and Russian propaganda on social media platforms, says a report set for release that day, according to a Saturday story from The New York Times. Prepared by a UK Parliament committee, with help from the US Senate’s Intelligence …
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