In March of this year, as you may recall, Facebook announced that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text. At the time, Facebook said it would notify “hundreds of millions of Facebook lite users, tens of…
It feels like we are hearing about Facebook doing nefarious things with people’s data at least once a week. The latest news comes from Business Insider which reported that Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their…
Facebook created Watch Party as a way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. It was intended to turn watching videos into a social activity. According to Business Insider, Watch Party is popular with pirates, who…
It seems that Facebook cannot prevent itself from causing security and privacy problems. According to KrebsOnSecurity, hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees. A anonymous Facebook…
Facebook announced a plan to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic. Here is what Facebook plans to do: They will reduce the ranking of groups and Pages that…
Edison Research and Triton Digital posted “The Infinite Dial 2019”. It is the latest report in a series dating back to 1998 that covers consumer usage of media and technology and has tracked many new mediums as they develop. The…
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a lengthy post on Facebook titled: “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking.” In it, he provides some information about things Facebook will do to protect the privacy of its users. Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook doesn’t have…