Oct 12 Facebook says hackers accessed 29 million people’s accounts By Associated Press Facebook says hackers accessed data from 29 million accounts as part of the security breach disclosed two weeks ago. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 4:07 How Facebook uses a hidden feature to share your information with advertisers By PBS NewsHour This week, Facebook revealed that security breaches on the social media site could expose personal data for approximately 50 million users. This comes as the company faces renewed criticisms for utilizing a hidden function to share users' contact information, like… Continue watching
Jul 19 Zuckerberg clarifies statements on treatment of fake news By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press The goal of Facebook is not to prevent someone from saying something untrue, Zuckerberg said, but to stop fake news from spreading. Continue reading
May 22 WATCH: Zuckerberg testifies before European Parliament over data privacy By Lorne Cook, Associated Press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before European Parliament officials at 12 p.m. ET today. Watch his remarks here. Continue reading
Apr 24 Facebook releases its 27-page list of banned activities on the service By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press The updated community standards will mirror the rules its 7,600 moderators use to review questionable posts, then decide if they should be pulled off Facebook. And sometimes whether to call in the authorities. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 5:01 Can you really delete Facebook data? By PBS NewsHour As its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress about a data, Facebook gave users access to the data it had shared with data brokers and advertisers, including login information, deleted friends and even offline activity. Brian Chen of… Continue watching
Apr 15 The law that made Facebook what it is today By Frank LoMonte, The Conversation The Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996, seven years before the debut of MySpace. It helped online publishing grow – and to escape consequences for the way users might be harmed. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch 8:56 How Facebook does business By Miles O'Brien Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finished his visit to Capitol Hill with another long hearing Wednesday. After two days, do we have a better understanding of how the social media giant gathers data? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien joins Amna… Continue watching
Apr 11 ‘This does not reflect America’: Congressman presses Mark Zuckerberg on lack of diversity among Facebook leadership By Joshua Barajas "We can do better than that, Mr. Zuckerberg," Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina told the tech executive. Continue reading
Apr 11 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica By Associated Press Mark Zuckerberg says his Facebook data was included in the personal information sold to malicious third parties, a reference to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has rocked his company over the past several weeks. Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill… Continue reading