A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested. The Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DusTj3ObrM Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. In a Friday press release, Snopes said that it had “elected not to renew our partnership with Facebook,” and …
PROPUBLICA: Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours. “Our tool had let the public see exactly how users were being targeted by advertisers. The social media giant urged us to shut it down last year.” ProPublica, Mozilla and Who …
via foxnews: No rhetorical sleight of hand, such as Zuckerberg’s disingenuous claim that “we don’t sell your data,” can obfuscate that fact. His claim makes a technical distinction. Obviously, Facebook does not part ways with the data we give it in …
via phys.org: Snopes, the popular myth-busting website, said Friday it was ending its fact-checking partnership with Facebook as part of a “difficult, but necessary change.” A Snopes statement said it was “evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services,” and wants …
So, Facebook stole your data against your will and their stock rose. They stole more data, and it rose again. Then it fell. But don’t worry because your friendly neighbourhood analysts have suggested this is a great opportunity to buy …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The social media space is absolutely ripe for a new entrant who demands arduous verification and constantly monitors its user base to eliminate cloned and fake accounts. How many accounts on Facebook are fake? Recent estimates of …
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202880/facebook-research-enterprise-root-certificate-onavo-techcrunch Facebook has run a program to collect intimate user data from paid volunteers for the past three years, according to a new report. TechCrunch reported that the company has been paying people ages 13 to 25 as much as …
2019 may very well be the year of Facebook’s demise. 2018 was not a good year for the spying, tracking and databasing tech company as headline after headline brought into question their sinister practices which lead to massive sell offs …
Via The Daily Caller Snopes refused to correct an inaccurate fact-check calling it “unproven” that American Indian activist Nathan Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. It’s a proven fact that Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. …
In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, an independent research shop led by Aaron Greenspan, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company’s user metrics, and that the company …
Middle aged Zuckerberg resembles Beto O’Rourke: http://archive.is/nfXiA
via YAHOO: NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it is investing $300 million over the next three years in news initiatives, with a focus on local news partnerships and other programs. The money will go toward reporting grants for local …
by AnonDidNothingWrong This one guy has racked up nearly 150 reports resulting in fines and convictions – mostly against pensioners. Online thought police. The web host Tomas Åberg receives tax funds for mass reporting to pensioners and others who …
“In times of great deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell. Social media was designed for controlling weak minds.. AC
BILLIONAIRE Mark Zuckerberg has halted the sale of his Facebook stock after the company’s value collapsed last year. The controversial 34-year-old has seen his company fall from grace, and failed to sell a single share in the last three months …
via business-standard: A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. Earlier that day, a local woman wrote a Facebook post saying she was walking home and intended to kill herself when …
via commondreams: Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability of social media giants “to disappear content as they please” is “creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed.” After the New York Times on Thursday published an exposé of Facebook‘s …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Corrupt Democrats ran a Facebook smear campaign against Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race in 2017 and Facebook allowed it. Democrat activists took what Russia did on a minute scale in …
via techcrunch: Russian information troll farm the Internet Research Agency spent just 0.05 percent as much on Facebook ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaigns combined in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, yet still reached a massive audience. While …
Jimmy Dore Show. Total of $4700 ad spending on Google from Russian accounts targeting US politics. Crazy over the top language used to describe. h/t stephenliss
Facebook is the ‘biggest concern’ among the FAANGs: Analyst from CNBC. Wang said many of Facebook’s trust woes have been “centralized” around Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who was in the spotlight after a New York Times report in mid-November about the executive …
Zuckerberg is zuck’d: http://archive.is/wZOSt
via 9to5mac: Aleksandra Korolova, a University of Southern California computer science professor, has shared a post on Medium diving deeper into Facebook’s targeted ad technology. Specifically, Korolova focuses on how Facebook is able to deliver location-based ads even if you disable …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/19/dc-attorney-general-sues-facebook-over-alleged-privacy-violations-cambridge-analytica-scandal/ The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, “likes” and other personal data about tens of millions of the …
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents underscore how personal data has become the digital age’s prized commodity. For years, Facebook gave …
by AssuredlyAThrowAway via NYT: For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records …
by DCG Four years and counting since I deleted my FB account. You couldn’t pay me to go back to it. From Hollywood Reporter: Facebook’s privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million …
by Jim Quinn You will find more infographics at Statista Out of the major tech companies, people trust Facebook the least with their personal information. Amazon and Twitter come in a distant second and third, with 8 percent of people saying they trust these companies the least …
via popularmechanics: Facebooked capped off its very bad year of data scandals with yet another leak of sensitive user information on Friday. This time, the social network disclosed a bug that made photos of 6.8 million users accessible to third-party developers, the …