The social media giant is revising its response to criticism that it was allowing racism to live on its platform.
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Deactivating Facebook temporarily makes people happier, study finds
Researchers at New York University and Stanford University found that deactivating Facebook freed up an hour per day for the average person.
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Maine House bans the use of live video by members during floor session debates or speeches
Republicans say shutting down the use of video by members is an affront to transparency.
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Maine House bans members from taking videos, photos during floor debate
Republicans say the ban is unnecessary, but the majority leader says the rule change is meant to prevent distractions.
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Facebook says new bug allowed apps to access private photos of millions of users
Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that people began uploading to the site but didn’t post publicly. The mishap, which occurred over a 12-day period in September, adds to Facebook’s mounting privacy headaches after […]
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LePage team settles suit filed by 2 people blocked from his Facebook page
The operator of a Facebook page that promotes the political views of Republican Gov. Paul LePage has settled a federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Maine by agreeing to stop blocking users who post critical comments. But as part of the agreement, approved Friday by U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr., LePage may continue […]
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Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users’ data
A key British lawmaker alleged Wednesday that Facebook maintained “whitelisting agreements” that gave select companies preferential access to valuable user data, echoing a key claim from an app developer that has been embroiled in a lawsuit with the social network in a California court. Damian Collins, chairman of a British parliamentary committee that has led […]
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Facebook purges over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday it has purged more than 800 U.S publishers and accounts for flooding users with politically oriented content that violated the company’s spam policies, a move that could reignite accusations of political censorship. The accounts and pages, with names like Reasonable People Unite and Reverb Press, were likely domestic […]
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Facebook Portal is a $200 video chat camera. Do you trust it?
? The Portal is a sleek new video camera and screen that makes chats with family and friends look great. It has just one problem: It was made by Mark Zuckerberg. On Monday, Facebook unveiled the $200 Portal, the first-ever consumer hardware from the world’s largest social network. The toaster-size gadget, along with a larger […]
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Facebook hack affects almost 50 million users
Facebook said Friday that hackers had stolen information that could have allowed them to take over 50 million user accounts, in the latest mishap for the social media company, which has spent months struggling to regain the confidence of policymakers and the public. The company said that as many as 90 million Facebook users – […]