How To Keep Your Facebook Profile Information Private
A massive data leak involving a popular social media site has some people scrambling to check their privacy settings.
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A massive data leak involving a popular social media site has some people scrambling to check their privacy settings.
A Trump-affiliated firm under scrutiny for inappropriately obtaining data on tens of millions of Facebook users created profiling algorithms that "took fake news to the next level," a former employee said.
The demand comes after 50 million profiles of U.S. voters on the social media site were harvested for private information.
The free agent pitcher finally gets a deal done and the league adds a new broadcast partner.
The sign was attached to an Arby's restaurant that had been there for nearly half a century.
Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids.
"The research shows that when we use social media to connect with people we care about, it can be good for our well-being."
Facebook says that when people passively consume content on the platform, they feel worse.
"I have already heard the rumblings of a backlash: "This is why you shouldn't hire women." Actually, this is why you should."
The social media giant is launching a messaging app for children to chat with their parents and with friends approved by their parents.
"Hand tooled leather saddle, hand peened copper rivets, on a Brooks pro frame," the listing promises.
The United States Senate opened hearings Tuesday on Facebook, Twitter and Google to figure out how to handle subversive and violent online content posted by foreign countries.
The company says it has detected that some accounts spent $100,000 on at least 3,000 ads, mostly on divisive issues.
The president of the College Republicans at the University of Minnesota Duluth said Monday that she removed "tasteless" posts from the group's Facebook page, adding that the person responsible has stepped down from his role in the organization.
Facebook says it will hire another 3,000 people to review videos of crime and suicides following murders shown live.
Facebook is facing criticism because it took the social media site more than two hours to take down video of a shooting death.
Police in Philadelphia say schools have been locked down as they investigate reported sightings of the suspect in an apparently random killing in Cleveland.
The assault went on for up to two days, until Chicago police found the victim "in distress" walking along a street.
Police in Hopkins say a 15-year-old girl made a creepy clown Facebook page that had threats to kill people in Hopkins and other cities.
Facebook can certainly keep you busy, but can it also make you just as happy as weddings and babies?
Facebook announced last week that it was changing its news feed (again), putting a higher priority on posts from friends and family and more tailored selections from news or media outlets.
"Liking" things just got a whole lot more complicated. After months of speculation, Facebook finally just rolled out its new set of emoji-reminiscent "like" buttons.
A group that tracks online racism reported the posts to the chief, and the officer's job is now in question.
Minnesota's governor ordered the state to take back a license plate he called offensive on Monday. The plate had the letter 'F' before an apparent abbreviation for 'Muslims.'
Recently, music producer and rapper Kanye West told the world he was $53 million in personal debt. Well, one Twin Cities man decided to take matters into his own hands.
