World Nov 05 Millions depend on private messaging apps to keep in touch. They’re ripe with misinformation By Saher Khan, Vignesh Ramachandran
World Oct 28 Facebook grilled by U.K. lawmakers making online safety rules Lawmakers pressed Facebook to provide its data to independent researchers who can look at how its products could be harmful. Facebook has said it has privacy concerns about how such data would be shared. By Associated Press
World Oct 25 Facebook has struggled to curb divisive content in India Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content on its platforms in the world's biggest democracy. Communal and religious tensions in India have a history of boiling over on social media and stoking violence. By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press
World Oct 25 Facebook’s language gaps allow terrorist content and hate speech to thrive Internal company documents show the problems are far more systemic than just a few innocent mistakes, and that Facebook has understood the depth of these failings for years while doing little about it. By Isabel Debre, Fares Akram, Associated Press
World Oct 25 Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over human trafficking Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. By Jon Gambrell, Jim Gomez, Associated Press
Oct 21 Trump says he’s launching a new media company with its own social media platform By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its "Truth Social" app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount… Continue reading
Oct 18 Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build ‘metaverse’ By Kelvin Chan, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build "the metaverse," a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality. Continue reading
Oct 14 Federal regulators warn companies that fake reviews on social media could mean fines By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press "The rise of social media has blurred the line between authentic content and advertising, leading to an explosion in deceptive endorsements across the marketplace," the FTC said in a news release Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 06 Facebook blames massive outage on error during routine maintenance By Associated Press Facebook's vice president of infrastructure said that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making."… Continue reading
Oct 05 WATCH: ‘Choices being made inside Facebook are disastrous,’ whistleblower says By News Desk Frances Haugen, a former data scientist for Facebook, testified to Congress on Oct. 5 about the tech giant’s negligence of acknowledging its societal harms, particularly to children. Continue reading