Tech and Gadget Are Facebook, Twitter Doing Enough to Stop Misinformation and Fraud? | Social Media Nov 5, 2018 Facebook and Twitter were hauled before Congress to explain how their platforms were weaponized in the 2016 U.S. election by Russia-linked trolls to…
Social Media Private messages stolen from 81000 Facebook accounts are up for sale | Social Media Nov 5, 2018 If you can recall, news broke out around a month ago that hackers exploited a flaw in Facebook’s code that then allowed them to steal the access…
Social Media How to See Which Facebook Advertisers Have Your Info | Social Media Nov 5, 2018 If you use Facebook (or even if you don’t) you probably know that advertisers have some information about you. Targeted ads are Facebook’s special…
Tech and Gadget Rogue browser extension blamed for theft of millions of Facebook private messages | Tech Industry Nov 4, 2018 The big picture: The latest security breach involving Facebook may not be the company’s fault. Instead, a rogue third-party browser extension…
Social Media Facebook Open Sources ‘Horizon’ AI Tools Used to Improve Video, Messenger | Social Media Nov 4, 2018 Facebook will allow anyone to freely download and use the same artificial intelligence tools it used to make key improvements to the social network’s…
Social Media Hackers gain access to 120 million private messages from Facebook users accounts | Social Media Nov 4, 2018 Hackers have gained access to private messages of nearly 120 million Facebook accounts and already published such messages from 81,000 accounts for…
Cyber Security Messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts reportedly up for sale | Cyber Security Nov 3, 2018 Hackers are reportedly offering to sell private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts. Many of the compromised accounts belong to Facebook…
Social Media Facebook uncovers more disinformation activity tied to Iran | Social Media Nov 2, 2018 Facebook said on Friday it had discovered Iranian disinformation activity on the social network a week ago and removed more than 80 inauthentic…
Tech and Gadget Facebook open sources reinforcement learning platform Horizon | Industry Nov 2, 2018 Facebook is open-sourcing Horizon, a reinforcement learning platform created by Facebook AI researchers, recommender systems experts, and engineers.…
Social Media How Congress could rein in Google and Facebook | Social Media Nov 1, 2018 In April, Mark Zuckerberg was called before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees to take responsibility for Cambridge Analytica. It was a…