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Facebook might face a multi-billion dollar fine from the FTC

Fazeel Ashraf
Feb 16th, 2019 at 4:59am GMT

According to The Washington Post, Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a multibillion-dollar fine. The FTC is planning to fine the social network over its privacy violations. This would…

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Facebook faces a strict ruling in Germany

Noor Imtiaz
Feb 8th, 2019 at 6:47pm GMT

In Germany, a ruling on Thursday has declared that Facebook abused its dominance in the social media market. A German antitrust watchdog had been investigating Facebook for apparent violations of…

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Facebook bans Myanmar military groups

Fazeel Ashraf
Feb 6th, 2019 at 7:26pm GMT

Facebook wrote in a Newsroom post today that it has decided to ban four more military groups from Myanmar from their platform. The organizations include the Arakan Army (AA), the…

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Facebook now lets users unsend messages

Fazeel Ashraf
Feb 6th, 2019 at 6:49pm GMT

Facebook Messenger has released a long-promised feature – it now lets users unsend messages. We’ve all felt it – that immediately regret after hitting the “send” button. But now, you…

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Somehow Facebook continues to grow, despite constant scandal

Noor Imtiaz
Feb 2nd, 2019 at 6:08am GMT

Facebook announced their quarterly earnings on Wednesday. The tech giant has been drenched in scandals that show no signs of slowing down. Their latest squabble with Apple over Facebook Research…

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Study shows Facebook users are happier if they quit the social network for a month

Fazeel Ashraf
Feb 1st, 2019 at 7:12pm GMT

In somewhat surprising, but not totally unexpected, news it looks like quitting Facebook for a month makes people happier. This is according to new research out of Stanford and New…

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Google also has a data-collecting app, just like Facebook

Noor Imtiaz
Feb 1st, 2019 at 7:54am GMT

After the shocking revelation on Tuesday about a Facebook app that collected web browsing and other sensitive data from its users, TechCrunch is back with a similar bombshell about Google.…

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Apple blocks Facebook from running internal apps on iOS

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 31st, 2019 at 6:20am GMT

Apple has responded to the Facebook Research app scandal with decisive action. Facebook was collecting data from teenagers in return for small payments, in open defiance of Apple’s official policy.…

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Facebook is paying users to install invasive “Research” app

Fazeel Ashraf
Jan 30th, 2019 at 5:21pm GMT

Facebook is in the news again, and not in a good way, again. The social network has been caught up in another scandal, secretly paying people to install a “Facebook…

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Zuckerberg’s plan to combine messaging apps is a spectacularly bad idea

Jessica Baron, PhD
Jan 27th, 2019 at 7:13pm GMT

Ok, so here’s what we know: 4 Facebook employees, described only as “people involved in the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is confidential” reached…

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Facebook looking to merge Instagram DM, WhatsApp, and Messenger

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 26th, 2019 at 10:27am GMT

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed plans to merge the messaging services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. But this would not mean making these into one platform. Rather, it would…

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Is Facebook’s “10 Year Challenge” more than a meme?

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 23rd, 2019 at 11:01am GMT

When the #10YearChallenge began on social media a few days ago, it seemed like a harmless trend. The challenge was to post one recent picture alongside a photo from ten…

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Judge unseals documents showing that Facebook took advantage of children

Jessica Baron, PhD
Jan 20th, 2019 at 6:56am GMT

The Center for Investigative Reporting made a request last year to unseal documents related to a 2012 class action lawsuit against Facebook involving charges racked up on its platform by children.…

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Facebook removes accounts linked to Russian-owned news agency

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 18th, 2019 at 1:38pm GMT

Facebook has labeled hundreds of pages linked to Russia as perpetrators of false news. Facebook claimed yesterday that the Russian Sputnik news agency was involved in serious misdemeanors that violated…

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German antitrust watchdog goes after Facebook

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 15th, 2019 at 1:07pm GMT

The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday that the country’s antitrust watchdog The Federal Cartel Office will order Facebook to stop collecting user data. There is serious concern…

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Are you a Facebook addict?

Fazeel Ashraf
Jan 12th, 2019 at 3:16pm GMT

Everyone has spoken these words, “Hey man, I think you might actually be addicted to Facebook,” at least once in their life to someone close to them. Turns out there…

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A summary of Facebook’s disastrous 2018

Noor Imtiaz
Jan 3rd, 2019 at 7:10am GMT

2018 brought challenges and hurdles even for the best of us. However, for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was an especially strenuous year. But in a recent post on his…

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