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“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation.
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
Just two months after running a full-page ad decrying Apple’s impending updates, Facebook is rolling out another campaign meant to defend the targeted ads that make up about 98% of its multi-billion dollar revenue stream.
Folks, I’m gonna be honest with you. Over my (short) tenure covering digital privacy, I’ve seen my fair share of deeply shitty tech companies pulling deeply shitty stunts in attempts to profit off our personal data. Facebook is one of the names that comes up most frequently here, and that’s partially because their…
An unprecedented new privacy measure.
It's a far cry from the maximum $35B Facebook might have owed, but not nothing.
WhatsApp has just been caught out by Apple's latest strike at Facebook...
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
A departing Facebook employee said the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
Facebook scams can be hard to avoid running into. Here’s what to look out for and what to do to protect yourself.
Mother Jones editors said their traffic from Facebook had plummeted
In Australia 65% of 1,000 respondents exposed to internet abuse, and one in five feared for their physical safety
FFS FACEBOOK
A developer’s powerful resignation letter is the latest condemnation of the social network’s attitude to hate speech
Ain't no tracking like first-party tracking ’cause first-party tracking don’t stop
The rise of “zoombombing” is just the latest example of why developers need to plan for harmful misuses as much as potential costly bugs.
BuzzFeed News: “The memo is a damning account of Facebook's failures.”
Facebook has chosen to review user data requests manually, without screening the email address of people who request access to the portals, which are made for law enforcement agents only.
Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney quit the company Tuesday to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's policies on hate speech and their impact on people of color. He is one of thousands of employees that have protested the company's decisions and one of several who have made their resignations public on the company's internal messaging system.