A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries
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Part 1 of an investigation into a network of fake Facebook accounts with AI-generated profile photos, being used to promote TheBL.com
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Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android
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FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
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Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
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Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
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Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network named WT:Social
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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
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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
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The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
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NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
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Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
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"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
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Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
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The Internet and the Third Estate
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Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
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Facebook's Dating Service is Full of Red Flags
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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
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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
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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
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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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French white supremacist network Suavelos is attracting traffic to their site by using deceptive Facebook pages that appear to support popular causes
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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
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US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
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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
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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
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Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
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The fall of Mic was a warning - Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site
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FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook
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Justice Department to open broad, new antitrust review of Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
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US FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion
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Inside Instagram's war on bullying
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#IAmHere – The people trying to make Facebook a nicer place
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You can sue media companies over Facebook comments from readers, Australian court rules
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