Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

Facebook has confirmed it has removed the pages and profiles of a far right political activist in the UK after concerns were raised in parliament about aggressive intimidation of politicians and journalists trying to go about their business in and around Westminster. PayPal has also closed an account that was being used to solicit donations […]... →

Rather than just focus on Facebook’s problems like his 2018 challenge, this year Mark Zuckerberg wants to give transparency to his deliberations and invite the views of others. Today he announced his 2019 challenge will be “to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society — the opportunities, the challenges, […]... →

Posted by MiriamEllisLet’s go back in time 20 years so I can ask you the question, “How often do you look at a paper map every month?”Unless you were a cartographer or a frequent traveler, chances are good that your answer would be, “Hmm, maybe less than once a month. Maybe once or twice a year.”But in 2019, I’d wager there’s scarcely a day that goes by without you using Google Maps when planning to eat out, find a service provider, or find something fun to do. That web-based map in your hand has become a g... →

Short-form video app TikTok has been growing in popularity across international markets, including in the U.S. where a merger with Musical.ly has seen the app topping the App Store charts. Facebook and Snapchat have been hastily trying to copy TikTok’s features as a result. A part of TikTok’s ambitious global expansion plan has been its […]... →

While Facebook continues to repair its image with consumers disenchanted with the social network’s role in disseminating misleading or false information and mishandling their personal data, it’s ironically been finding some traction for its enterprise-focused service, Workplace. Today, the company announced that it has added another huge company to its books today: Nestle, the coffee, chocolate […]... →

After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see. Acknowledging that the social network played its part in the spread of hate speech, election interference, and misinformation, Zuckerberg’s […]... →

Google has scrambled to remove third-party apps that led users to child porn sharing groups on WhatsApp in the wake of TechCrunch’s report about the problem last week. We contacted Google with the name of one these apps and evidence that it and others offered links to WhatsApp groups for sharing child exploitation imagery. Following […]... →

За ним следуют Amazon и Twitter... →

Facebook занял первое место в списке технологических компаний, которым пользователи меньше всего готовы доверить свои персональные данные. Об этом свидетельствуют результаты онлайн-опроса, проведённого аналитической компанией Toluna ранее в этом месяце. В опросе приняли участие 1000 человек. Им нужно было ответить на 2 вопроса: какой компании из списка они меньше всего доверяют в отношении персональных данных […] Сообщение Facebook возглавил список компаний, которым меньше всего доверяют пользователи появил... →

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn’t study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough, faced, as he now is, with an existential crisis of ‘fake news’ simultaneously undermining trust in his own empire and in democracy itself. A recent New Yorker profile — questioning whether the Facebook founder can fix […]... →

‘Twas the night before Xmas, and all through the house, not a feature was stirring from the designer’s mouse . . . Not Twitter! Not Uber, Not Apple or Pinterest! On Facebook! On Snapchat! On Lyft or on Insta! . . . From the sidelines I ask you to flex your code’s might. Happy Xmas […]... →

After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters took to the streets. They forced the ordinarily disorganized local traffic to drive in strict lanes and stopped vehicles to inspect license and registration papers. They even halted the vehicle of the Chief of Bangladesh […]... →

The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single term to define a group of products. But are social networks even social anymore? If you have a feeling of tech fatigue when you open the Facebook app, you’re […]... →

Facebook is fielding so many problems, oversights, scandals, and other miscellaneous ills that it wouldn’t surprise anyone to hear that its fact-checking program, undertaken last year after the network was confronted with its inaction in controlling disinformation, is falling apart. But in this case the reason you haven’t heard much about it isn’t because it’s […]... →

Facebook looks to be jumping on the blockchain wagon with plans to introduce its own stablecoin, according to a report from Bloomberg. The social network company — under fire for a seemingly constant stream of privacy snafus of late — created an internal blockchain division in May and, while there has been plenty of speculation, […]... →

Виртуальная валюта необходима соцсети для финансовых переводов через WhatsApp и мессенджер, принадлежащий компании... →

Она будет привязана к доллару США для снижения волатильности... →

Wikimedia Foundation объявила, что Facebook пожертвовал Wikimedia Endowment – фонду, который осуществляет финансовую поддержку онлайн-энциклопедии Wikipedia и других проектов Wikimedia – $1 млн. «Мы благодарны Facebook за эту поддержку и надеемся, что это станет началом долгосрочного сотрудничества для поддержки будущего Wikipedia», — заявил основатель Wikipedia Джимми Уэйлс (Jimmy Wales). Фонд Wikimedia Endowment, созданный в 2016 […] Сообщение Facebook пожертвовал Wikipedia $1 млн появились сначала на Sea... →

Facebook работает над созданием криптовалюты, которая позволит пользователям совершать денежные переводы в WhatsApp. Об этом сообщает Bloomberg со ссылкой на источники, знакомые с планами компании. По данным агентства, Facebook разрабатывает стейблкоин – криптовалюту, привязанную к доллару США, чтобы минимизировать волатильность. Наданный момент компания далека от запуска проекта и пока ещё работает над стратегией, включая план […] Сообщение СМИ: Facebook разрабатывает криптовалюту для WhatsApp появились сн... →

Twitter and Facebook announced this morning they’ve removed a combined total of 30 accounts that were working to spread misinformation in Bangladesh, ten days before the country’s general elections. According to Facebook, the company removed nine Facebook Pages and six Facebook accounts that were engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Twitter said it removed 15 accounts that […]... →