Facebook is trying to improve the ways people can remember loved ones on its platform. The social network on Tuesday added a new tributes section for memorialized accounts and more control for users who manage these accounts. Facebook made the changes based on feedback from different religions and cultures, as well as experts and academics. …
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Facebook might limit who can stream live video, a decision it’s contemplating after a gunman used the social network to broadcast a deadly shooting at a New Zealand mosque. The company’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post Friday that Facebook is “exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard …
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Facebook is making changes to a range of ads on the social network in an effort to protect its users who are searching for a job or housing from discrimination. Advertisers that run housing, employment and credit ads will no longer be able to target users based on age, gender or ZIP code, and will also have fewer options when …
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Facebook, under pressure to combat hate speech, has landed in hot water again for the audiences it allows advertisers to target. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that advertisers were able to target people interested in perpetuators of the Holocaust, including Joseph Goebbels, Josef Mengele and Heinrich Himmler to hundreds of thousands of users. Advertisers could also reach people interested …
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Facebook can’t seem to get through a week quietly. This week, Germany’s antitrust regulator ordered the world’s largest social network to stop combining data from the Facebook accounts of its German users with information it collects about them from other sites unless they give their OK. The Federal Cartel Office’s order covers not only Facebook’s site, but Instagram, WhatsApp and …
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Facebook’s mission is to bring the world closer together. But lately the company has been associated with breaking societies apart. The world’s biggest social network was used to spread misinformation in elections around the world, potentially affecting their outcomes. The UN determined that Facebook played a role in furthering hate speech in Myanmar, contributing to a possible genocide. Five people …
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Facebook’s spat with Apple on Wednesday shows it can’t stay out of trouble. But the social network seems immune to scandals as well. Monthly active users — the number of people who log on to Facebook every month — rose 9 percent year over year to 2.32 billion in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31. User growth is crucial …
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Facebook’s annual developer conference will return next year to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on April 30 and May 1. The tech giant’s biggest event of the year features keynote speeches from Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “There will be networking opportunities, deep-dive sessions, and product demos, all showcasing how technology can enable the best of what people …
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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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