Three female job hunters, a large worker coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union lodged a legal complaint against Facebook on Tuesday, accusing the company of enabling discriminatory job postings with its ad targeting tools. The complaint also targets 10 employers that used Facebook to post job ads – for roles as police officers, truck […]
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Facebook users still worried about protecting their privacy
Facebook users are adjusting their digital behavior following the turmoil on the platform during the 2016 presidential election, according to a new survey. More than half of Facebook users in the U.S. said they’ve changed their privacy settings in the past year, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday. More than four in […]
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Facebook uncovers attempt to influence upcoming elections
Facebook said Tuesday that it had discovered a sophisticated coordinated disinformation operation on its platform involving 32 false pages and profiles engaging in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The social media company said that it couldn’t tie the activity to Russia, which interfered on its platform around the 2016 presidential election. But […]
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Lewiston police: Beware of misinformation from unverified sources on social media
LEWISTON — In the wake of violence that has rocked Lewiston in recent weeks, police say the last things people need are rumor and wild exaggeration. Police issued an alert Wednesday advising people to be wary of believing everything they read on social media. Of particular concern, they say, are a number of Facebook pages […]
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'Maine Police & Fire Alerts' disappears from Facebook
SABATTUS — Sometimes his reports were spot on. Sometimes, they were so far off the mark, it was mind-blowing. For reasons not yet determined, the controversial Facebook page “Maine Police & Fire Alerts” has been taken down. By Friday morning, several people were reporting that the page, run by Gregory Powers of Sabattus, could no […]
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This is why Facebook may take down your content
SAN FRANCISCO — Among the most challenging issues for Facebook is its role as the policeman for the free expression of its two billion users. Now the social network is opening up about its decision-making over which posts it decides to take down – and why. On Tuesday the company for the first time published […]
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Sandy Parakilas, Lewiston grad, warned Facebook about privacy threats in 2012
Sandy Parakilas warned them. Back in 2011 and 2012, while the Lewiston native was working as an operations manager for Facebook, he warned his supervisors that the company was not doing enough to protect the data of its users. Turns out his observations were right on the money, and if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had […]
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: regulation of social media firms is ‘inevitable’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a House oversight panel Wednesday that he believes it is “inevitable” there will be regulation of the social media industry and also disclosed to lawmakers that his own data was included in the personal information sold to malicious third parties. “The internet is growing in importance […]
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"I’m sorry:" Facebook CEO Zuckerberg opens Senate hearing with apology
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began a two-day congressional inquisition Tuesday with a public apology for a privacy scandal that has roiled the social media giant he founded more than a decade ago. Zuckerberg opened his remarks before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees by taking responsibility for failing to prevent Cambridge Analytica, […]
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How Facebook was able to get your phone call and text logs
The news that Facebook’s Android app has been collecting call and text histories is yet another black eye for the social media giant. But just why was Facebook able to siphon off records of who its users were contacting — and when — in the first place? The short answer: Because Google let it. The […]