World Nov 02 Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network’s system. That’s about 640 million people.
Economy Oct 28 Facebook rebrands as Meta to emphasize ‘metaverse’ virtual reality vision Experts point out that it also appears to be an attempt to change the subject from the Facebook Papers, a document trove that has revealed the ways Facebook ignored internal reports of the harms its social network magnified across the…
Economy Oct 25 ‘Facebook Papers’ reveal company is hesitant to act on serious issues Thousands of pages of internal documents provided to Congress by a former employee depict an internally conflicted company where data on the harms it causes is abundant, but solutions, much less the will to act on them, are halting at…
Economy Oct 04 Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down across wide swathes of the world Monday. Facebook's internal systems used by employees also went down.
Economy Aug 05 Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse Apple is planning to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be used to surveil citizens.
Politics May 03 A decision on suspended Trump Facebook account expected this week The social network's quasi-independent Oversight Board says it will announce its decision Wednesday on a case concerning the former president's account.
Economy Apr 06 Lawmakers call YouTube Kids a ‘wasteland of vapid’ content In a letter sent Tuesday to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, the House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic and consumer policy says YouTube isn't doing enough to protect kids from material that could harm them.
Politics Mar 25 WATCH: Congress press Big Tech CEOs over speech, misinformation The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google face a new grilling by Congress Thursday, one focused on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading falsehoods and inciting violence.
Politics Jan 21 Facebook’s oversight board to rule on indefinite Trump ban The social media giant said it's referring the matter to the oversight board for what it called an "independent judgment" on on upholding the decision. Twitter, by contrast, has permanently banned Trump.
Nation Jan 06 Twitter suspends Trump amid Capitol violence In an unprecedented step, Twitter suspended the account of President Donald Trump for 12 hours Wednesday after he repeatedly posted false accusations about the integrity of the election and threatened him with a permanent ban.