Facebook announced Libra, its very own cryptocurrency powered by blockchain technology. It is also introducing Calibra, a digital wallet for Libra. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app. Facebook expects to launch these products…
The Washington Post reported that both Facebook and Twitter said they had disabled a “sprawling disinformation campaign that appeared to originate in Iran”. It included two Twitter accounts that mimicked Republican congressional candidates and may have sought to push pro-Iranian…
Facebook is planning to launch GlobalCoin, its very own form of cryptocurrency, in about a dozen countries in 2020. Facebook wants to start testing GlobalCoin by the end of 2019. Facebook wants to create a digital currency that provides affordable…
The Trump Administration has launched a web survey for people to use if they feel they have been wrongly censored on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. The survey was created with the online form-building tool Typeform. The first page of…
Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter have responded to the Christchurch Call to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online by committing to remove that content from their social media sites. As far as I can tell, this is the first time…
Several websites have reported that Facebook has banned a group of people who have broken the company’s Community Standards. More specifically, those recently banned have broken the “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” portion of Facebook’s and Instagram’s Community Standards. The “Dangerous…
At F8 2019, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives repeated a version of the phrase “the future is private”. Personally, that particular phrase is not one I would expect to hear from Facebook, given their multitude of privacy issues that…