Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers too much access to the photos of up to 5.6 million users. The bug allowed apps users had approved to pull their timeline photos to also receive their Facebook …
by Thinker The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which is the country’s competition regulator, recommended overseeing the commercial activities of Google and Facebook in order to protect smaller tech firms. In its preliminary report released Monday, the ACCC called …
Amid the ongoing controversy over political censorship on social media accounts, companies like Facebook are also being accused of hurting small businesses. One America’s Gabrielle Cuccia has more from Washington.
via thefreethoughtproject: (RT) — An employee of a leading Washington DC think tank has reportedly taken credit for the resent purge of alternative media by Facebook and Twitter, claiming it to be necessary to fight against ‘fake news’ from Russia and China. …
RT, Released on 12/10/18 Manila Chan talks to investigative journalist, Ben Swann, about Facebook’s purge on independent media.
Just thought that FB employees feeling the need to use burner phones might be a hint at how thoroughly our phones are spying on us. via nymag: Facebook’s reputation has only continued to get more sullied in recent weeks, and it’s …
Via True Pundit Facebook has censored a photo of Santa Claus kneeling in baby Jesus’s manger because, according to the guidelines, the photo may “show violent or graphic content.” According to LifeSiteNews, the photo was previously covered up by a banner …
via gizmodo: The business team wanted to get Bluetooth permissions so it could push ads to people’s phones when they walked into a store. Meanwhile, the growth team, which is responsible for getting more and more people to join Facebook, wanted …
Facebook tried to conceal that it was secretly vacuuming up call and text logs from Android users without their permission, newly-released internal documents have revealed. The hundreds of pages of documents, which were previously sealed as part of an ongoing …
Emails written by Facebook’s chief and his deputies show the firm struck secret deals to give some developers special access to user data while refusing others, according to MPs. A cache of internal documents has been published online by a parliamentary committee. …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Trump 2020 Campaign spokesman Brad Parscale sat down with Frontline for a lengthy discussion on the Facebook dilemma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_B9vI7Lr9s Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/brad-parscale-half-the-stuff-coming-out-of-cnn-is-fake-why-does-facebook-allow-cnn-on-there-video/
via dailymail: Facebook employees are turning on boss Mark Zuckerberg, it was reported last night, as British MPs leaked a trove of documents then accused the company of spying on users’ calls and texts and signing secret deals to give access …
From John Stossel at Reason: Companies like Google and Facebook collect information about us and sell it to advertisers. The information they collect and the way they collect it cross the “creepy line” according to a new documentary called “The …
Mark Zuckerberg could have his name REMOVED from San Francisco General hospital after a city official claimed that Facebook does not serve the public interest anymore *Supervisor Aaron Peskin drafts legislation to remove the Facebook CEO’s name *He believes that …
Moscow may start imposing hefty fines on tech giants, including Google and Facebook, over failing to comply with Russian legislation. The new fines will reportedly be equal to one percent of a firm’s annual revenue in the country. Russian authorities …
UK Parliament seized internal documents related to Facebook’s privacy and data decisions. No one is going to like what the sausage factory actually does to make money… https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/25/18111007/uk-parliament-seized-internal-facebook-documents-app-developer-six4three-cambridge-analytica The UK Parliament used a rarely-used procedure to compel an app developer …
via thefreethoughtproject: Last month, Facebook and Twitter — without warning or justification — deleted the pages of Free Thought Project and Police the Police which had over 5 million followers. During this purge, they also removed hundreds of other pages including …
by Michael Snyder George Soros avoided a loss of more than 17 million dollars by dumping shares of Facebook, Netflix and Goldman Sachs just before the big crash started happening. In other words, he made out like a bandit by …
Facebook and Instagram have been hit by major outages, with users reporting that the sites’ home pages showed a only a “service unavailable” message. Hours beforehand, Facebook’s Messenger app crashed around the world. Outages were reported on Tuesday afternoon in …
by Michael Snyder These large stock market declines are starting to become a regular thing, and tech stocks are getting hit particularly hard. But we have been in a bull market for such a long time that many investors are having …
Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever, and some say there’s more pain ahead from CNBC. Facebook is facing a mountain of problems. The social media giant’s stock fell nearly 5 percent on Monday, hitting its lowest …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Here’s the ugly truth: Facebook and Google are profit-maximizing quasi-monopolies who will do anything to protect their monopolies. Of the many remarkable trend changes of the past year, few are more striking than the fawning embrace of …
Prince William’s extraordinary intervention as he accuses Facebook of putting ‘profit before values’ PRINCE William has today accused Facebook and other social media giants of being “on the back foot” and putting their “profits before values”. The 36-year-old said he …
via WSJ: Facebook Inc.’s difficult year is taking a toll on employee morale, with several key measures of internal sentiment taking a sharp turn for the worse over the past year, according to people familiar with the matter and messages …
by Geoffrey Grider Facebook Inc. executive and virtual-reality wunderkind Palmer Luckey was a rising star of Silicon Valley when, at the height of the 2016 presidential contest, he donated $10,000 to an anti-Hillary Clinton group. I have had a Twitter account since …
via thefreethoughtproject: The owners of a Facebook page dedicated to helping suicidal veterans cope with combat stress claim that their page was mysteriously deleted by Facebook with no explanation. The closure is one of the latest from the company, which has …
An unprecedented joint “international grand committee” of members of the U.K. and Canadian Parliaments investigating disinformation and online election influence campaigns has expanded to include Argentina, Australia and Ireland, according to a letter sent by elected leaders to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. …
HAHAHA: http://archive.is/r79Sx Well Facebook shouldn’t be censoring people with different opinions Their stocks will probably be so useless that they will be compared to toilet paper in the next 5 years AD
We are looking at [antitrust] very seriously,” Trump said. “Look, that doesn’t mean we’re doing it, but we’re certainly looking and I think most people surmise that, I would imagine.” Trump said others have also considered action against tech companies …
via fee.org: ver the last several years, Facebook has gone from facilitating the free flow of information to inhibiting it through incremental censorship and account purges. What began with the ban of Alex Jones last summer has since escalated to …