Facebook accuses Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting U.S. servers to infect 100s of devices via WhatsApp
Israeli spy-tech firm used WhatsApp accounts to hack, Facebook claims ...
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Facebook nixes ‘pseudoscience’ ad-targeting category
After The Markup revealed that Facebook users were being targeted with bad ads for garbage products, Facebook has now agreed to remove “pseudoscience” as an ad targeting option for advertisers.
Yes, this was allowed during the coronavirus pandemic, until a news website shamed Facebook into eliminating it.
Facebook says it will show geographic origin of some posts, to thwart foreign political disinformation campaigns
On Wednesday, Facebook said it will label posts from popular accounts to reveal their geographic origin, an attempt to limit election-year political misinformation by foreign entities.
Often, such accounts attempt to trick the user into believing they are legitimate groups and political parties based in the United States.
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Washington state sues Facebook a second time over political ads
“FACEBOOK already paid $238,000 in 2018 to resolve a previous dispute over political advertising in Washington state.” ...
Facebook allows pro-Bloomberg posts from paid staffers, may change that now
Facebook is reportedly considering making it just a wee bit clearer that pro-Bloomberg political campaign posts come from paid staffers on Michael Bloomberg's political campaign. Yes, 2020 is bonkers.
Facebook is considering ways to show when a paid campaign staffer shares a political post on the site, reports Julia Boorstin at ...
Facebook refused to remove racist and anti-Semitic group page until it got a letter from New Jersey Attorney General
Ten months ago the director of New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights alerted Facebook about a racist and anti-Semitic group page it was hosting, but Facebook took no action, reports Ars Technica. It took a letter from the state's attorney general to convince Facebook to remove the group page.
On Wednesday New Jersey Attorney General ...
Facebook stock plummets 8%, wiping out $50 billion in market value
Facebook issued a disappointed quarterly report, sending its stock price down by 8%, reports CNBC. In the report, "Facebook also warned of advertising headwinds related to privacy and regulatory changes on the horizon, leading to slowing growth in the U.S. Facebook said privacy improvements on Apple’s iPhones and Google’s Android software could hurt its ...
Facebook pays $550m settlement over illegally-collected ****** recognition data
Facebook has agreed to pay $550m to users in Illinois who sued it over its storing of biometric data without consent. This allowed the social network to automatically tag photographs—and to build a vast database of ****** recognition data. It also contravenes the state's privacy laws, reports the BBC:
The case has been ongoing since ...
Arizona HOA threatens residents with fines for posting critical comments about its board
The Homeowners' Association in Val Vista Lakes -- a private community in Gilbert, Arizona -- has threatened at least 11 residents with fines of $250 each if they do not delete Facebook posts that are critical of the HOA and its board, thereby demonstrating the case for criticizing the HOA and its board.
The controversial posts ...
Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings
'Federal disclosures filed late Tuesday reveal Amazon and Facebook each spent roughly $17 million to battle back Washington in 2019' ...