Facebook Removes 3 Billion Fake Accounts, But How Many Missed?
Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.
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Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.
People who break Facebook's "most serious policies" will be immediately banned from using Facebook Live for a period of time, such as 30 days.
WhatsApp has revealed a vulnerability in its system that could have allowed hackers access to its users' phones, with a London-based human rights lawyer possibly among the targets.
Facebook is raising how much it pays U.S. contractors who do some of its most taxing work, including watching violent and other objectionable material for possible removal from the service.
The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad. Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo of two men carrying more jihadi flags while they burn the stars and stripes.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook plans a cryptocurrency-based payment system that it could launch for billions of users worldwide.
Facebook says it has designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos as "dangerous" and it will be purging them from its platforms.
Facebook is bracing for a massive fine from federal regulators after a year of data privacy scandals.
Sri Lanka placed a nationwide block on social media sites after more than 200 people died in multiple attacks on Sunday.
Federal regulators are reportedly considering seeking some kind of oversight over Mark Zuckerberg's leadership of Facebook.
A number of major Silicon Valley tech companies were called out in the Mueller Report, taking some heat for the role they played in spreading Russian disinformation.
Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly four weeks ago.
A powerful New Mexico regulatory authority is requiring the state's largest utility to bill Facebook $39 million for a new transmission line construction.
Facebook has admitted that it collected up to 1.5 million users' email contacts without their consent, in the latest privacy issue to hit the giant tech firm.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were temporarily down early Sunday.
The California Democrat said the era of self-regulation for these companies should "probably" end -- the latest warning sign for Silicon Valley.
Facebook said Wednesday it is rolling out a wide range of updates aimed at combatting the spread of false and harmful information on the social media site.
Facebook says it will change the rules for how it deals with profiles of people who have died.
YouTube was forced to disable comments on a livestream of a House Judiciary hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism on social media Tuesday morning
Representatives from Facebook and Google will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday, face questions from lawmakers about how their platforms are used by white supremacists.
A top New Zealand official blasted Facebook in a series of now-deleted tweets, calling the company headquartered in Menlo Park "morally bankrupt pathological liars."
Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against calls to delay livestream feeds to reduce the reach of troubling content.
A vast collection of data on Facebook users was exposed to the public until recently on Amazon's cloud computing service, researchers have found.
Users only needed to enter their addresses, email, utility information and phone number to find out more. Those incentives don't exist.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called for the government and regulators to play in a bigger role in policing the internet.
