Facebook employees are obsessed with a family of foxes that lives on their campus and hangs out on their roof. Business Insider understands that employees have an internal channel where they share photos of the foxes. Social media is also awash with adorable photos of the furry critters. SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook employees are sharing […]
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Facebook bans pages aimed at US election interference
Facebook says it has removed 32 accounts and pages believed to have been set up to influence the mid-term US elections in November. It said it was in the “very early” stages of the investigation and did not yet know who was behind the pages. It said the creators had gone to greater lengths to […]
Alex Jones slammed with 30-day ban from Facebook for hateful videos [Update]
Enlarge / Conspiracy theorist and talk show host Alex Jones. Facebook took action against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones late Thursday when it banned the InfoWars host from using his account for the next 30 days. According to a report from CNET, Facebook banned Jones after it determined four videos on his pages violated its community […]
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won't Remove Holocaust Denial Content
Mark Zuckerberg got himself into hot water Wednesday after suggesting that Holocaust deniers are not “intentionally getting it wrong” while explaining why they won’t be policed on Facebook. In a lengthy interview with Recode published Wednesday, Recode co-founder Kara Swisher pressed the Facebook CEO to explain how he can simultaneously say he is combating the […]
State of the Art: Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It’ll Be Messy.
State of the Art Tech Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Are Drawing Lines. It’ll Be Messy. ImageCreditDoug Chayka By Farhad Manjoo July 25, 2018 From its earliest days, Silicon Valley has been animated by near-absolutist understanding of free speech. Other than exceptions for fraud, pornography or specific threats, the prevailing view among many tech platforms […]
Facebook Will Remove Fake Content Meant To Incite Violence
Facebook will begin removing misinformation from the social network that could incite physical violence after months of criticism from groups who say the platform has been used to target ethnic minorities in countries like Myanmar and Sri Lanka. “We have identified that there is a type of misinformation that is shared in certain countries that […]
State of the Art: What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer
State of the Art What Stays on Facebook and What Goes? The Social Network Cannot Answer ImageFacebook executives from Mark Zuckerberg on down have been almost comically tripped up by some of the most basic questions the site faces.CreditGerard Julien/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Farhad Manjoo July 19, 2018 Facebook was once the most […]
Secretly filmed footage reveals the training Facebook moderators are put through
Firecrest/C4Facebook moderators are trained to evaluate graphically violent content. The training Facebook moderators are put through has been revealed in secretly filmed footage, recorded by a reporter for British broadcaster Channel 4. The training, carried out by Facebook’s content moderation contractor CPL Resources, reveals how reviewers should deal with material, including child abuse and racism. […]