Category: Facebook

UK will hold social networks accountable for harmful content

[ad_1] Both Facebook and Google have previously denied responsibility for the content published on their sites, evoking the communications act in the US to overcome lawsuits accusing them of enabling terrorism and spreading extremist views. But calls for big tech to be regulated have grown in recent years following a spate of controversial incidents, the […]

Facebook, Google and Twitter will join a hearing on tech censorship next week

[ad_1] While we can guess, we don’t know exactly what the subcommittee (chaired by Senator Ted Cruz) plans to discuss. Since the 2016 election, tech companies have been accused of — and denied — censoring conservative speech. This also comes just one week after Mark Zuckerberg proposed four ways to regulate the internet. Google and […]

Facebook groups for buying and selling credit cards still abound

[ad_1] The groups are pretty easy to find on the social network. Searching for terms like “spam,” “carding” or “CVV” will typically yield a handful of them. Once a user joins one of the groups, Facebook’s algorithm will recommend similar ones to join, making it easy to network with likeminded hackers and criminals. According to […]

Australia’s new law threatens social media companies with jail, fines

[ad_1] If the companies fail to remove violent content in time, they could face fines up to 10 percent of their annual profit. The law could even slap individuals running hosting services with a $2.1 million fine or send them to prison for up to three years. Christian Porter, Australia’s attorney general, called the law […]

House Judiciary panel to grill Google and Facebook on hate speech

[ad_1] The Committee’s announcement calls social media platforms “world-wide conduits to spread vitriolic hate messages into every home and country.” During its hearing on the 9th, it’s hoping to examine hate crimes, the spread of white identity ideology and the impact of white nationalist groups on communities. It’s also hoping to conjure up and foster […]

Facebook will pull its apps from Windows Phone on April 30th

[ad_1] Still, the departure of Facebook shouldn’t surprise many Windows Phone users, who are holding on to a device that is on its death knell. Microsoft announced it was officially killing off its Windows Phone business in 2016 following lackluster sales. It halted issuing security and software updates in December 2018. Major third-party apps have […]

Third-party errors left over 540 million Facebook records exposed

[ad_1] Facebook is embroiled in another privacy scandal, although this time it’s not of the company’s direct making. UpGuard researchers have discovered over 540 million Facebook interaction records left exposed by third parties using Amazon’s cloud services. Nearly all of them come from Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva, which recorded account names, comments, Facebook IDs […]

Facebook removes over 1,000 pages ahead of India’s election

[ad_1] This is the latest in Facebook’s ongoing attempts to keep the platform from being manipulated around elections. Earlier this month, Facebook removed 137 accounts in the UK for stoking political tension. In January, the company removed more than 900 Pages in Iran and Indonesia for coordinated inauthentic behavior. And last year, it pulled Pages […]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg proposes four ways to regulate the internet

[ad_1] Zuckerberg also pushed for regulations that set “common standards” for verifying people behind political ads. He hoped for a “globally harmonized framework” for data privacy akin to the European Union’s GDPR to improve overall data protection without leading to a “fractured” internet. To top things off, the exec hoped for a guarantee of data […]