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FACT CHECK: No, this video does not show a former president being thrown into a creek

Agence-France Presse
Posted at Oct 18 10:34 PM

A reverse image search found the man in the clip was actually an Indian politician, who then confirmed the details of the incident to AFP. Aquino’s spokeswoman said it was not him in the video. Read more »

Facebook launches ‘war room’ to combat manipulation

Julie Charpentrat, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 18 09:38 PM

Facebook's "War Room" is a nondescript space adorned with American and Brazilian flags, a team of 20 people monitors computer screens for signs of suspicious activity. Read more »

Higit 700,000 Facebook users sa PH, naapektuhan ng data breach

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 18 04:44 PM

Higit 700,000 users o gumagamit ng Facebook ang naapektuhan ng isang data breach noong nakaraang buwan, sabi ng Facebook sa National Privacy Commission. Read more »

NPC flags Facebook after security breach affects 756,000 PH users

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 18 12:34 PM

The National Privacy Commission on Thursday ordered the social media giant Facebook to submit a Data Breach Notification Report and to provide "identity" insurance to affected Philippine-based data subjects.  Read more »

Facebook tentatively concludes that spammers were behind recent data breach -WSJ

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 18 09:16 AM

Facebook Inc has tentatively concluded that a recent hack that affected millions of accounts was perpetrated by spammers, and not a nation-state, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing sources.   Read more »

Facebook to say who pays for UK political adverts

Reuters
Posted at Oct 16 07:59 AM

Facebook said on Tuesday that it would require British political adverts posted on its pages to carry disclaimers and identity flags, in an attempt to crack down on the spread of misinformation. Read more »

Unfriend: Thai junta leader receives social media pummelling

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 12:21 AM

An onslaught of negative feedback flooded the official Facebook page of Thailand's premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha a day after it was launched over the weekend, backfiring on the junta leader's attempts to get "suggestions" on the social media platform Read more »

Facebook says hackers accessed data of 29 million users

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 13 01:51 AM

Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world's leading social network disclosed late last month. Read more »

Vietnam blogger sentenced again after Facebook posts

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 11:58 PM

Vietnam on Friday jailed a blogger who posted critical material on Facebook for five years, his second sentence in less than a month as a hardline administration tightens its grip on dissent. Read more »

Facebook purges accounts to thwart deceit

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 12 03:32 AM

Facebook on Thursday said it shut down 251 accounts for breaking rules against spam and coordinated deceit, some of it by ad farms pretending to be forums for political debate. Read more »

Facebook seeing growth in business network Workplace

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 08:07 AM

Facebook on Tuesday hosted its first global summit spotlighting a growing Workplace platform launched two years ago as a private social network for businesses. Read more »

Facebook debuts smart speaker for Messenger video calls

Paresh Dave, Reuters
Posted at Oct 08 09:22 PM

Facebook Inc on Monday released a smart speaker designed to ease video calls, but the company's history of privacy mishaps and the device's price and limited functionality could slow it from taking on market leaders Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google. Read more »

Tulong bumuhos sa ginang na naaksidente sa Davao City

Hernel Tocmo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 05:30 PM

DAVAO CITY – Kumalat sa social media ang post ng isang netizen kaugnay sa nakakaawang kalagayan ng isang ginang na hindi na naipagamot ang nabaling buto matapos maaksidente dalawang taon na ang nakalipas.   Read more »

Security failure at Facebook - what we know

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 04 10:06 AM

The security breach revealed on September 28 by Facebook affected tens of millions of accounts at the social network, which boasts more than 2.2 billion monthly users. Read more »

Mocha Uson: From sexy dancer to social media player

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 04 07:30 AM

"Hindi po ito katapusan ng laban, umpisa lang po ito." Read more »

Instagram back up after worldwide outage

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 05:15 PM

Facebook Inc's photo-sharing social network Instagram is back up for some users on Wednesday, after suffering a worldwide outage days after it installed a new head of the app. Read more »

Instagram hit by outage in several cities

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 04:06 PM

Users took to Twitter to complain about the outage and tweeted messages along with the #instagramdown hashtag. Read more »

Woman sues Facebook, claims site enabled sex trafficking

Dan Whitcomb, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 11:42 AM

A Texas woman, claiming that she was raped, beaten and sex trafficked at the age of 15 by a pimp who posed as a Facebook "friend," has filed suit against the social network, alleging its executives knew minors were being lured into the sex trade on their platform. Read more »

Facebook says hackers did not access other sites with its login

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 06:34 AM

NEW YORK - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday that investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use the social networking site's single sign-on in a massive cyber attack that the company disclosed last week. Read more »

How many Pinoys hit by Facebook breach? Privacy body awaits word

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 02 06:48 PM

The National Privacy Commission said Tuesday that it was awaiting word from Facebook on how many Filipinos were affected when the social media giant was breached by hackers last week.    Read more »