Meta confirms U.S. military involvement in sprawling phony social media operation
Facebook’s parent company provides additional evidence blaming the U.S. military for a long-running influence operation.
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Aerial photo of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virgina on September 26, 2003. (Photo by Andy Dunaway/USAF via Getty Images) Geopolitics -
(Getty) Government FTC says Americans are losing more money to social media fraud than ever before
Facebook is playing a large role.
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A medical worker prepares a dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on November 25, 2021. – China OUT (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) Threats Meta scrubbed a fake scientist’s account that spread bogus COVID-19 claims
Facebook removed 524 inauthentic Facebook accounts, 20 pages, four Groups and 86 Instagram accounts boosting the claims.
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(Isriya Paireepairit / Flickr) Technology Facebook says it will step up efforts to stop coordinated campaigns that cause harm
The new policies directly build on Facebook’s security work cracking down on inauthentic coordinated behavior.
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(Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images) Privacy WhatsApp hit with $267 million GDPR fine for bungling user privacy disclosure
Facebook is appealing the decision.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on May 1, 2018. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) Privacy Mark Zuckerberg tells employees Facebook’s ‘encryption’ will protect abortion-seeking users
Facebook has said it plans to fully roll out end-to-end encryption across its services by mid-2023.
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Photo by Hoch Zwei/Corbis via Getty Images Cybercrime Facebook warns 1 million users about apps trying to compromise accounts
Facebook identified 400 apps across the Google Play and Apple App store that posed as harmless lifestyle and business services to dupe users.
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Privacy Most apps used in US classrooms share students’ personal data with advertisers, researchers find
Apps custom-designed for schools are sending staggering amounts of data to Facebook and Google, researchers found.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, testified remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Nov. 17, 2020.(Photo By Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images) Government Senators expected to grill current, former social media executives on disinformation
A former Facebook executive turned critic is expected to testify about how the company prioritizes growth over safety.
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Stickers bearing the Facebook logo at the F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. (REUTERS / Stephen Lam) Privacy Facebook stops NYU researchers from examining misinformation, is criticized for ‘silencing’ transparency efforts
Facebook says researchers violated the website’s privacy protections.