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Facebook listened to users' conversations: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 14 08:33 AM

Facebook acknowledged the transcriptions, which were first reported by Bloomberg, telling the news agency in a statement that they were made with users' permission, but that the practice has nonetheless been stopped. Read more »

How Facebook is changing to deal with scrutiny of its power

The New York Times
Posted at Aug 12 03:00 PM

The world’s biggest social network has started to modify its behavior — in both preemptive and defensive ways — to deal with threats from the world's leaders and regulators. Read more »

Facebook to pay record $5 billion US fine over privacy violations

David Shepardson, Reuters
Posted at Jul 24 08:57 PM

Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the social media giant will restructure its approach to privacy, the US Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday. Read more »

Zuckerberg urges governments: Regulate political ads, private data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 04:05 PM

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday called on governments to further regulate private data, political advertising and step up efforts to prevent state actors from interfering in US elections. Read more »

Fake Zuckerberg video challenges Facebook’s rules

Cade Metz, The New York Times
Updated as of Jun 12 08:26 AM

Posted to the Facebook-owned social network Instagram, the video shows Zuckerberg speaking directly into the camera, boasting of nefarious motives behind his online empire. Read more »

Inflatable angry emoji looms over Facebook annual board meeting

Katie Paul and Ross Kerber, Reuters
Posted at May 31 09:32 AM

The social media giant will again face demands for reform at Thursday's meeting, including shareholder proposals that call for revamping the company's voting structure and ousting Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg as chairman. Read more »

Breakup isn't the answer, Facebook's Zuckerberg says

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 24 08:43 AM

Zuckerberg's co-founder's defense of the leading social network came as it reported it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by "bad actors" and that five percent of active accounts are likely fakes. Read more »

Facebook tightens live-streaming in crackdown on violence

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 15 12:15 PM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook announced Wednesday it is tightening access to livestreaming to prevent the rampant sharing of graphic video as took place with the Christchurch massacre. Read more »

Facebook rejects co-founder call for breakup, senator urges US antitrust probe

David Shepardson, Reuters
Posted at May 10 08:48 AM

Facebook has been under scrutiny from regulators around the world over data sharing practices as well as hate speech and misinformation on its networks. Some US lawmakers have pushed for action to break up big tech companies as well as federal privacy regulation. Read more »

Facebook co-founder says it is time to break up the company

Reuters
Posted at May 10 12:15 AM

Facebook Inc co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Chris Hughes has called for the break up of the social network in an opinion piece in the New York Times. Read more »

Europe takes on big tech: Has it gone too far?

Adam Satariano, The New York Times
Posted at May 06 02:38 PM

Heralded as the world’s toughest watchdog of Silicon Valley technology giants, Europe has clamped down on violent content, hate speech and misinformation online through a thicket of new laws and regulations over the last five years. Read more »

NZ privacy tsar accuses Facebook of failing to cooperate

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 08 04:42 PM

WELLINGTON - New Zealand's privacy regulator on Monday accused Facebook of failing to cooperate on tackling livestreaming in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre, saying founder Mark Zuckerberg was "disingenuous" about its systems. Read more »

Facebook's call for global internet regulation sparks debate

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 02 08:21 AM

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's call for "globally harmonized" online regulation raises questions about how internet platforms can deal with concerns about misinformation and abusive content while remaining open to free speech. Read more »

Facebook's call for global internet regulation sparks debate

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 02 03:25 AM

Zuckerberg says Facebook's future is going big on private chats

Paresh Dave, Reuters
Posted at Mar 07 08:44 AM

Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook profile that within a few years direct messaging would dwarf discussion on the traditional, open platform of Facebook's news feed, where public posts can go viral across the world. Read more »

Zuckerberg says Facebook's future is 'privacy-focused'

Reuters
Posted at Mar 07 05:45 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world's biggest social network sees its future in intimate online chats. Read more »

Generation Guaido: a threat to Chavez-style power in Venezuela

Ramon Sahmkow, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 07 01:34 PM

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido, is heading an offensive that is seen as having a decent chance to remove from power Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor, the former bus driver Nicolas Maduro. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, this is not a photo of Pope Francis meeting Duterte

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 06 05:52 PM

A reverse image search found that the picture is a doctored version of a photo showing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg meeting Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2016. Read more »

Zuckerberg sees 'positive' force of Facebook despite firestorm

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 05 08:42 AM

Even as Facebook is facing a wave of criticism over issues of manipulation, misinformation, abuse and other social ills, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said it would be a mistake "to overly emphasize the negative" impacts of social media and the internet. Read more »

'We don't sell people's data,' says Facebook's Zuckerberg

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 25 01:42 PM

2018 was a horrific year for Facebook, marked by a series of scandals over data protection and privacy and concerns that the leading social network had been manipulated by foreign interests for political purposes. Read more »

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