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Facebook announced today that it removed 559 Pages and 251 accounts “that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior”. The post was written by Facebook's Head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel Gleicher and Project Manager Oscar Rodriguez. The behaviors that caused Facebook to remove 559 Pages and 251 accounts are not new. Facebook says that this type
Facebook today announced its entry into the video calling market with Portal. Facebook today announced its entry into your home... With two models in the range, the smaller Portal goes up against the Echo Show, and a larger Portal+ brings a new form factor to the market. The former has a landscape 10" screen with the latter plus model rocking
It happened again. Facebook has had yet another security issue that affected the privacy of its users information. This time, the problem affected 50 million accounts. Facebook says that the security issue occurred because of a combination of three bugs. In short, the newest security issue involved the View As feature, which allows users to take a look at their
Facebook has launched Facebook Dating in Colombia. One can assume that it will roll out to other countries eventually if the test goes well. In my opinion, Facebook Dating is an attempt by Facebook to attract younger users. In February of 2018, The Guardian reported that teens and young adults were leaving Facebook (in favor of Snapchat and other forms
Facebook has created and deployed a large-scale machine learning system named Rosetta. It can extract text from more than a billion public Facebook and Instagram images and video frames, in a wide variety of languages. This is excellent news for people who use screenreaders, because it will make the text in images, videos, and memes understandable for people who are
Facebook announced that they have introduced Page publishing authorization starting with people who manage a Page with a large audience in the United States. In addition, Facebook is also adding primary country location and Page merge details to the Page Info tab (that was introduced in June of 2018). Why is Facebook doing this? The answer to that question is
People who use both Facebook and Twitter may have noticed that they cannot crosspost their tweets to Facebook anymore. The reason is because crossposting tweets to Facebook has been disabled. Reuters tweeted a video in which they reported that Twitter users will now be required to copy the URL of any tweet that they want to share on their Facebook