Facebook’s virtual reality subsidiary Oculus has shipped tens of thousands of its touch controllers with sinister-sounding messages the company described as “easter eggs.” The messages included phrases like “Big Brother Is Watching You,” “The Masons Were Here,” “This Space for …
Deactivation does nothing for your privacy I thought deactivating my Facebook account would stop the social network from tracking me online. But Facebook kept tabs on me anyway. Over the past year, I’ve tried to minimize my presence on Facebook. I deleted …
Ted Cruz speaking right now… The Dems in-on the hearing are going to pretend it doesn’t exist. h/t Voluntaryist
by 0naptoon It tracks user behavior on the site and connects it to info provided from the internet from a network of undisclosed partners. It share data with them to create a unique profile that can be used to reveal …
“The company cannot be left to its own devices, and existing enforcement authorities haven’t done enough.” By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant …
by Geoffrey Grider Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users’ own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork over the password for their outside email account as the price of admission to the …
by rockytimber Jimmy Dore has been patiently tracking the Russia Collusion story for two years now, systematically building a case that enough cards are already on the table to prove collusion. Here Dore and Micheal Tracy dig in to the developments …
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alan-patricof-google-facebook-amazon-111457565.html In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, venture capital pioneer Alan Patricof contends big tech companies such as Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG, GOOGL), and Amazon (AMZN) have become too powerful for their own good. “Some people might even call …
by TrailDust PROJECT VERITAS Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting” “Troll Report” & Political Targeting in Interview James O’Keefe and his brave team have just pointed a flashlight at the dirty tricks played by the ever-so-friendly Facebook. I first became …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Why is Facebook going to issue a cryptocurrency? Doesn’t that confirm the evolutionary path of technology? ND ANSWER: The term “cryptocurrency” is being thrown around very loosely. It is true that there is increasing hype and speculation regarding a theoretical …
by logicblocks The official Facebook account of the United States Department of State posts AIPAC propaganda. This further confirms the conspiracy that the United States government is taken over and controlled by Israel and its lobbies in Washington D.C., another videoof …
via thespring: Who said there was no such thing as a money tree? Facebook has 2.3 billion of them. While it’s no secret Facebook makes a lot of money, the staggering growth of Facebook’s revenue doesn’t get the attention it deserves. …
The Social Security Administration may start screening your Facebook and Instagram posts to evaluate your disability claim Currently, the federal agency uses them to investigate fraud cases, but it’s planning to expand that usage Social media is considered a poor …
Trump on the discrimination of conservatives on social media: President Trump said Tuesday that “something” needs to be done to stop the anti-conservative bias seen on Twitter and other social media platforms, but didn’t say what his administration might do …
via CNBC: Facebook shares extended their losses Monday after a downgrade from analysts at Needham. There’s growing concern that more executives could leave following the departure of Chris Cox, the company’s product chief, who resigned last week. State attorneys general …
by icantfindagreat Notes *New Zealand and California has 20 hours difference being in different time zones *Shooting has taken place in New Zealand *Facebook HQ is in Canada Timeline Thursday (topic time) 04:56 (NZ time) to 08:56 CA [Tuesday] …
Zuckerberg very bad week of very bad year… Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has had a very bad week, even in the context of a very bad year. The week of bad news actually started March 8 with a proposal from …
https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106377564577247233 https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1106188316251226114 U.S. PROSECUTORS PROBE FACEBOOK'S DATA-SHARING DEALS: NYT oops — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 13, 2019 Facebook Chief Product Officer Resigns Along With WhatsApp Head Facebook stock fell in after-hours trading Thursday, follow an announcement that two executives were leaving …
by Geoffrey Grider Then, at noon here in California, a Facebook spokesman denied one possible explanation: that the Silicon Valley giant, and Google before it, were being subject to a massive denial-of-service attack. Today as nearly all the main social networks …
via theregister: Updated Both Google and Facebook suffered outages Wednesday, with the Chocolate Factory leading the way and seemingly fixing its issues just as Zuck’s network became decidedly antisocial. On Wednesday morning, around 0800 Pacific Time (1500 UTC), Google said it was …
Facebook is having issues since 12:01 PM EDT. https://t.co/BLSiYCF9KL RT if it's down for you as well #Facebookdown — Downdetector (@downdetector) March 13, 2019 #BombCyclone Even #Facebook is down :-O pic.twitter.com/Shh4WSlnZf — Bognit O'Shaugnessy (@IrishChieftain) March 13, 2019 h/t keybored
She’s right about the problem, but wrong about the solution. We don’t need five Facebooks at 20% of the size. We need tech and social media giants to be regulated like utilities. Private power companies can’t refuse to sell …
via techcrunch: Last year, Facebook was forced to admit that after months of pestering its users to switch on two-factor by signing up their phone number, it was also using those phone numbers to target users with ads. But some …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But the US government got them all beat. Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk had a magic touch when it came to marketing. Walking on water was just a low-level activity. Tesla was able to create …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But the US government got them all beat. Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk had a magic touch when it came to marketing. Walking on water was just a low-level activity. Tesla was able to create …
And I mean, geez, stuff like this with Facebook just isn’t a surprise anymore, is it? For years social media Big Brother had been pestering its users to secure their account with two-factor authentication (2FA) by prompting them to enter …
Don McMillan shares his Greatest Charts for 2018. Charts include: Nerd vs Geek, Printer Ink Price, USB Configurations, Network Security Expert Career Path, First Thing You Do When You Get Out of Bed, The Facebook Proof, Shopping With My Wife, …
https://youtu.be/ewohflU4PIA Recent Western Journal investigation revealed that the facebook “algorithm” changes have not only disproportionately affected conservative news sources but have worked to promote many liberal newssources. Facebook’s algorithm according to statistics that specifically targeted conservative news sites we’re moving …
FULL STORY AND DOCS: • Insider, Formerly Responsible for Content Review in Facebook’s Intellectual Property Dept Speaks Out, Loses Job • Facebook Engineers Plan to “demote bad content” • Conservative Facebook Page Livestreams Secretly “deboosted,” No Notice to Page Owners …
by Playaguy In a surprise to no one, this ‘revelation’ comes on the hells of a report that Facebook’s ‘fact checkers’ are having mental breakdowns. Report: Facebook Eliminates… by on Scribd