Ad discrimination is a pretty serious issue on Facebook, and when those in charge of the social network found out that some advertisers were using “ethnic ...
February 9, 2017 at 5:01 pm by Cernescu Andrei
Following a fake news filter campaign similar to the initiative launched in the United States last year, Facebook is cracking down on fake news reporting in France, ahead of ...
February 6, 2017 at 1:29 pm by Ron Perillo
A two-year-old lawsuit that alleges that Facebook-owned virtual reality startup Oculus stole the technology it implemented in its Oculus Rift VR headset will culminate this ...
January 15, 2017 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp included a backdoor that allowed its employees to read users’ messages. The ...
January 14, 2017 at 4:30 pm by Ashley Allen
It seems that people around the world have trouble accessing their Facebook accounts and as a result, the worldwide productivity rises by 80%. Nah, I’m just kidding ...
January 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm by Bohs Hansen
While most Facebook users are aware that the social network is tracking your interests and activities while using the site – you can even see what Facebook knows about you ...
December 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
While Facebook wrings its hands over its fake news problem, Germany could force the social network to take real action to prevent lies and propaganda posing as fact from ...
December 29, 2016 at 8:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Facebook has been accused of deliberately misleading the European Commission (EC) over its merger with instant messaging app WhatsApp. Prior to the $22 billion merger, ...
December 21, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2014 his plans to connect the world to the internet. In June 2016, testing continued on their drone, and a recent report has revealed the cause of ...
December 20, 2016 at 6:00 am by Anthony Cartwright
Gigabyte has teased their next generation motherboards in the Aorus form and while it doesn’t show much, it does offer a glimpse into the things we’re going to see ...
December 13, 2016 at 10:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
A European Commission report has discovered that only 40% of all notifications of hate speech received action within a 24-hour period and they deem this inadequate, demanding ...
December 12, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Ron Perillo
While entirely speculative, word on the street is that Google is sizing up a bid to buy Facebook. The rumour comes courtesy of Fudzilla, which claims that Google’s ...
December 4, 2016 at 6:38 pm by Ashley Allen
While Facebook has promised to tackle its fake news problem, partially blamed for Donald Trump’s victorious Presidential election, it has fallen to third parties to properly ...
December 2, 2016 at 7:31 pm by Ashley Allen
Earlier this year, two social media accounts belonging to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg were hacked – in the very loosest sense of the word “hacked”, since Zuckerberg ...
November 18, 2016 at 12:00 am by Ashley Allen
Facebook has been in the news quite a bit lately in regards to fake news stories after they fired all their employees handling that and going back to an automated model ...
November 16, 2016 at 9:27 am by Bohs Hansen
