[ad_1] Facebook has been eager to fight misinformation on its platform, but it’s concerned Brazil might have taken things a step too far. BBC News reports that Facebook has blocked the accounts of a dozen allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after the country’s Supreme Court ordered them blocked worldwide in May. The group, which […]
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Facebook adds official music videos to News Feed and Watch
[ad_1] Beginning today, Facebook users in the US can watch official music videos on Facebook. The music videos will appear in the News Feed, and Facebook is launching a Music section in Facebook Watch, where you can explore videos by genre, artist or mood. In the coming weeks, we can expect music video premieres from […]
Engadget Podcast: Big tech goes to Washington
[ad_1] This week on the show, Devindra and Cherlynn chat about Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon’s congressional long-awaited antitrust hearing. Are they too big to compete fairly? Or is the tech industry being overly criticized? (It’s most likely the former.) Also, we dive into Garmin’s lackluster response to its widespread system outage, Quibi’s surprising Emmy […]
The recent ad boycott hasn’t slowed down Facebook
[ad_1] During a call with analysts, Mark Zuckerberg said that hate speech and misinformation are only a “small part” of the content on Facebook. “We do not profit from misinformation or hate,” he said. It’s not necessarily a surprise that Facebook would continue to flourish in the face of an advertiser backlash. While large corporations […]
Congress grills Facebook over its acquisitions and feature cloning
[ad_1] Documents from the Hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google” pic.twitter.com/fF20JB0w9v — House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) July 29, 2020 Zuckerberg expanded on the idea in another email. “We can likely always just buy any competitive startups. But it’ll be a while before we can buy […]
Big tech CEOs release opening statements before antitrust hearing
[ad_1] All three CEOs also took the time to address antitrust concerns that their companies are far too dominant. For example, Bezos pointed out that Amazon has competition from the likes of Walmart, Target and Costco that offer curbside pickup, which he says gives them a certain advantage. Like Bezos, Pichai made the claim that […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz says Mark Zuckerberg lied to Congress … in 2018
[ad_1] Citing Zuckerberg’s 2018 testimony, Gaetz says that Zuckerberg lied to Congress when he described Facebook as “politically neutral.” He said that a recent report from Project Veritas, the right-wing activist group known for dubious “undercover” investigations, proves the social network unfairly censors conservatives. Project Veritas has a history of hidden camera “stings” that use […]
After Math: Quick, throw some money at it
[ad_1] Engadget The NYT taught us all a valuable lesson on opportunity costs this week. Why spend the time and effort to develop a quality podcast in-house when you can sipky spend around $50 million to buy one of the most famous podcast production studios in the business? Let’s see how long the Times can […]
Instagram will fix bug that mistakenly shows camera as ‘on’ in iOS 14
[ad_1] Apple’s iOS 14 beta is still catching misbehaving apps. Instagram has promised The Verge it will fix a recently reported bug that lists the camera as on when you’re simply browsing your feed, not just when you’re using the built-in camera features. The indicator can mistakenly pop up when you swipe from the camera […]
Big tech antitrust hearing with Apple and Google rescheduled to July 29th
[ad_1] The House Judiciary Committee’s big tech antitrust hearing has a new date after a delay to honor the late Rep. John Lewis. In the wake of an Axios report, the committee has confirmed that the hearing has been rescheduled to July 29th at 12PM Eastern. You’ll likely still find a livestream of the hearing […]