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56 votes
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John Carmack announces that he is mostly stepping away from Oculus, and intends to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Social networking and dog food
9 votes -
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
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Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
15 votes -
Designing Facebook's new company branding
10 votes -
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
16 votes -
Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
27 votes -
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
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Congressional hearing - An examination of Facebook and its impact on the financial services and housing sectors
7 votes -
The Internet and the Third Estate
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Sweden central bank governor Stefan Ingves calls Facebook's Libra a 'catalytic event'
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Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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Facebook’s Libra association crumbling as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others exit
11 votes -
How the women-only Facebook group Minbar-Shat helped overthrow the Sudanese government
7 votes -
Facebook's dating service is full of red flags
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest
27 votes -
PayPal drops out of Facebook’s Libra payments network, as other financial partners reconsider their involvement
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Facebook launches "Threads from Instagram", a new camera-first messaging app
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US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps
10 votes -
Social Networks or Social Nightmares? with Roger McNamee, Max Schrems and Evgeny Morozov
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
11 votes -
Facebook has taken down the popular 'World USA' page with almost 1 million followers after being exposed as a Ukrainian-based operation targeting older Americans with pro-Trump content
9 votes -
Facebook to exempt opinion and satire from fact-checking
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Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
23 votes -
Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
@alexstamos: It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://t.co/1l8tgH1r4s
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An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page
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Announcements from Oculus Connect 6
I made a separate post about the hand-tracking specifically because I think it's especially cool, but Oculus is announcing a lot of things today. Here's a list of some stuff so far, and I'll...
I made a separate post about the hand-tracking specifically because I think it's especially cool, but Oculus is announcing a lot of things today. Here's a list of some stuff so far, and I'll probably add some more if there are other details/articles/videos.
There's an official overall summary post here: Oculus Connect 6: Introducing Hand Tracking on Oculus Quest, Facebook Horizon, and More
Official individual blog posts (mostly with embedded videos):
- Introducing Hand Tracking on Oculus Quest—Bringing Your Real Hands into VR
- Introducing ‘Facebook Horizon,’ a New Social VR World, Coming to Oculus Quest and the Rift Platform in 2020
- Oculus Quest @ OC6: Introducing Hand Tracking, Oculus Link, Passthrough+ on Quest, and More
- Introducing Oculus Media Studio and the New and Improved Oculus TV, Your One-Stop Shops for Content Consumption and Distribution on Oculus Quest and Oculus Go
- A Closer Look at the New Oculus for Business, Launching in November
- Time to Play @ OC6: New and Upcoming Games Recap
- Learn the Ways of the Force in ‘Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series - Episode II,’ Available Today on Oculus Quest and the Rift Platform
- Respawn Entertainment Reveals the Future of VR with ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’—Coming Soon to the Rift Platform
- Half Dome Updates: FRL Explores More Comfortable, Compact VR Prototypes for Work
Other posts:
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Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of their ongoing investigation into data misuse
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Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
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France to block Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
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French white supremacist network Suavelos is attracting traffic to their site by using deceptive Facebook pages that appear to support popular causes
8 votes -
Will governments lose monetary control to Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency?
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Facebook is under investigation for antitrust violations by a coalition of the attorneys general of 8 states and DC, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James
10 votes -
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
14 votes -
How Facebook tracks you on Android
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In April 2018, Facebook promised to share data so academics could research impact on elections. They haven't done it, and the project's funders will pull out if it's not all available by Sept 30
9 votes -
Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
11 votes -
The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
7 votes -
The Great Hack: A Netflix documentary on Facebook & Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time
18 votes -
How Facebook failed to break into hardware: The untold story of Building 8
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Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
13 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site
8 votes -
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook
6 votes -
Justice Department to open broad, new antitrust review of Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
10 votes