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Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Shift, Critics Wary

He promises a 'privacy-friendly' Facebook

(Newser) - Facebook, which grew into a colossus by vacuuming up your information in every possible way and using it to target ads back at you, now says its future lies in privacy-oriented messaging that Facebook itself can't read. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO, announced the shift in a Wednesday blog...

How Highly Personal Data Is Going Right to Facebook

The 'Wall Street Journal' uncovers the activity of 11 popular apps

(Newser) - Turns out Facebook is hoovering more data from your smartphone that you may have realized. The Wall Street Journal says 11 popular apps—mostly related to health and fitness—are sending people's highly personal information to Facebook even if the user isn't on Facebook and the app doesn'...

British Lawmakers Slam Facebook as 'Digital Gangster'

Site accused of knowingly breaking laws

(Newser) - British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that accused Facebook of intentionally violating privacy and anti-competition laws in the UK and called for greater oversight of social media companies. The report on fake news and disinformation on social media sites followed an 18-month investigation. The parliamentary committee that prepared the...

Facebook Considers Change as Measles Cases Spread

Anti-vaccination content could be toned down

(Newser) - With cases of the measles spreading in Washington state, Facebook says it will try to reduce the spread of misinformation about health, especially vaccinations, on its platform. Facebook tells USA Today it is looking into making anti-vaccination content less visible and has "taken steps" to reduce false health news...

A Big Shakeup for Facebook's Employee Bonuses

Amount of the check will be determined more by work on social issues than company growth

(Newser) - Facebook is changing the rules for its employees. The embattled company will now tie bonuses more to their work on social issues than to company growth, Fortune reports. The change will support the new goals announced last week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Those goals include maintaining user security and data...

Suspect May Have Accidentally Taken Video of Fatal Beating

Donald Galleck of Maine allegedly recorded beating on his phone inadvertently

(Newser) - Donald Galleck pleaded not guilty to intentional murder and depraved indifference murder Tuesday in Bangor, Maine. Then came an unusual twist: An affidavit was unsealed, alleging the 29-year-old had in fact unintentionally broadcast the beating death of 40-year-old Jason Moody via Facebook. The musician died of "massive inflicted trauma...

Facebook Hits Fake News Linked to Russia, Sputnik

Site shutters hundreds of accounts engaged in 'coordinated inauthentic behavior'

(Newser) - Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups, and accounts that were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news. The social media company said Thursday it took action after finding two networks "that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior" on its...

Most-Hated Firm in America Has 'String of PR Disasters'

Facebook really gets our goat, per 24/7 Wall St.

(Newser) - The opposite of love may be indifference, but hate is what Americans harbor for the companies that annoy, enrage, and frustrate them. And those firms fall in a variety of sectors, per 24/7 Wall St ., which ranked the most loathed companies in the country based on consumer surveys, data from...

Millennials Least Likely to Share Fake News on Facebook
Seniors Cited
for Spread of Fake
News on Facebook
NEW STUDY
Jan 10, 2019 10:20 AM CST

Seniors Cited for Spread of Fake News on Facebook

Users 65 and older share more fake articles than any other group: study

(Newser) - The worst spreaders of fake news across Facebook aren't the young'uns you'd expect to be glued to social media. Facebook users older than 65 share the most—almost seven times as many bogus articles as those ages 18 to 29, according to research by NYU and Princeton....

Zuckerberg Reveals His 2019 Personal Challenge

He'll have a role in debates on future tech 'every few weeks'

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg set the lofty goal to "fix" Facebook in 2018 . "Proud of the progress we've made" but with work still to do, he's now eying the tech industry at large, reports CNN . "My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions...

Girl, 6, Rescued After Posting Photos of Dead Dad

Father died of apparent overdose, step-mother was unconscious

(Newser) - A 6-year-old girl in southeast Michigan has been rescued from a home after posting photos on Facebook of her dead father and unconscious stepmother, reports the AP . Police in Mount Morris Township, just north of Flint, say a relative in Tennessee contacted them after seeing the pictures. Officers went to...

Apple's 'Darkest Day' Just Turned Into Dark 3 Months

Market capitalization loss of $452B since Oct. 3 is larger than the entire value of Facebook

(Newser) - Thursday was called the "darkest day" for Apple under Tim Cook. Now the bigger picture from the end of 2018 is emerging, and it's similarly stunning. CNBC reports that in the three months since Oct. 3, Apple's market capitalization losses have reached $452 billion, with Apple shares...

Bombarded by Disinformation, 'We're on Our Own'

Kara Swisher writes for the 'NYT' that tech companies haven't been terribly helpful in fighting bad actors

(Newser) - What's "dead clear": Propaganda pushers have been using platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter "exactly as they were designed to be used." What we're just now learning: that those companies were more or less useless on the front lines against disinformation and "fake news,...

DC Sues Facebook Over Data Scandal
Washington, DC
Sues Facebook
Dec 19, 2018 3:32 PM CST

Washington, DC Sues Facebook

It's the first big effort in the US to penalize Facebook over Cambridge Analytica controversy

(Newser) - More trouble for Facebook related to its Cambridge Analytica data scandal: The Washington, DC, attorney general is suing the social media company. The Washington Post reports that this is "the first major effort" by US regulators to punish Facebook over its involvement with the British political consulting firm, which...

NYT Investigation Not Making Things Easier for Facebook

Paper alleges Facebook gave more than 150 companies special data access

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg is on track to lose $15 billion this year , and articles like this from the New York Times give more than an inkling as to why: An investigation based on hundreds of pages of internal documents show Facebook has for years given a select group of 150+ partners—...

&#39;One of the Most Respected Tech Journos&#39; Flees Facebook
Big Name in
Tech Just Quit
Facebook
Dec 18, 2018 11:45 AM CST

Big Name in Tech Just Quit Facebook

Walt Mossberg: 'My own values and the policies and actions of Facebook have diverged'

(Newser) - A lot of people have been abandoning Facebook lately, but one recent name carries more weight than most. Walt Mossberg, who's spent decades covering Silicon Valley for publications like the Wall Street Journal and Verge, is "one of the most respected technology journalists of our era," per...

Netanyahu's Son Earns 24-Hour FB Ban Over 'Hate Speech'

Yair Netanyahu wants all Muslims to leave Israel, called Palestinians 'monsters in human form'

(Newser) - The oldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to take a bit of a break from Facebook over the weekend for a series of posts the social media platform said "included hate speech." The New York Times details some of what brought on the 24-hour...

Report Exposes Vast Scale of Russia's Pro-Trump Election Interference

'All of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party'

(Newser) - Russian agents reached a staggering number of Americans through social media during the 2016 election campaign, and sites like Facebook missed some obvious signs of what was happening, according to a report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report, seen by the Washington Post, found that Russians at the...

Maine Shuts Down Facebook Page on Dangers of Pot

But was it just a response to satire?

(Newser) - The state of Maine has shut down a Facebook page detailing the potential dangers of marijuana use in response to a satirical page launched by pro-pot critics, the AP reports. State Center for Disease Control spokeswoman Emily Spencer tells Maine Public that Maine (where recreational pot use is legal )...

Teen Worker Grabs Intercom, Lets Walmart Have It, Quits

'Nobody should work here—ever,' he says

(Newser) - For anyone who has ever fantasized about quitting a hated job with an obscenity-filled rant, ripping management a new one, and burning any remaining bridge with all the subtlety of Negasonic Teenage Warhead , we present to you Jackson Racicot, 17, of Alberta, Canada. As the Edmonton Journal reports, Jackson had...

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