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As you may have noticed, discussions of politics on social media can quickly become extremely toxic. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had started working on a feature that was designed to reduce that toxicity and encourage more civil discussion. It was called “Common Ground”, and Facebook canceled the project before launching it. Deepa Seetheraman wrote in the Wall
Facebook revealed more bad news about the lack of security on its platform. In a post on its Developer News site, Facebook notified developers that a photo API bug was discovered that “may have affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos.” Currently, we believe this may have affected up to 6.8
On November 14, 2018, The New York Times posted a lengthy article titled: “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis”. Facebook responded on November 15, 2018, with a post of its own, titled “New York Times Update.” Later that day, The New York Times posted an article titled: “Facebook Cuts Ties with Definers Public Affairs Following Outcry.”
Facebook announced that it removed 82 Pages, Groups and accounts “for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people in the US and UK”. This follows Facebook's previous removal of 559 Pages and 251 accounts “that have consistently broken our rules against spam and inauthentic behavior”. To me, it sounds like Facebook is actually taking action to clean
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Facebook GB£500,000 for data breaches relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That's about US$650,000. The ICO's investigation into the activities of Facebook is highly critical of Facebook's laissez-faire approach to user's data. For seven years, Facebook failed to stop application developers taking users' information without informed consent, and allowed capture of the information
As reported by Recode, and with a small dose of "Told you so", Facebook has clarified that it will spy on you using its new Portal devices after all. In an email sent to Recode, Facebook said, "Portal voice calling is built on the Messenger infrastructure, so when you make a video call on Portal, we collect the same types
Facebook revealed more information about the security issue that affected the privacy of many Facebook user's information. The update provided by Facebook includes unsettling news. Facebook now says that out of the 50 million people whose access tokens were affected by the security issue, they believe that about 30 million people actually had their tokens stolen. I'm not sure if