Facebook has spent well over a year addressing user safety and data security concerns. Since 2017 it has more than doubled its security team, announced new content review policies, instituted a new app evaluation process and took a number of other steps to improve the integrity of its platform. But these efforts have not only […]
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Facebook added Custom Audience details to the “Why am I seeing this ad?” notification in News Feed ads in February. Users can see if their contact information was included on a Custom Audience list uploaded by the advertiser. Now, users can also see when a Custom Audience list is uploaded and if the advertiser worked
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Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the company’s coming privacy-focused, unified messaging and social networking platform. The CEO said, in the coming years, Facebook plans to rebuild its services and platforms around the following six principals: private interactions, encryption, reduced permanence, safety, interoperability and secure data storage. “People increasingly also want
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Later this month, Facebook will begin showing users who are targeted with ads via Custom Audiences which companies had a hand in their seeing those ads. What’s changing? With Custom Audiences, advertisers can upload files of customer emails or phone numbers that can then be matched to Facebook accounts for ad targeting. Starting February 27,
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Facebook has removed a controversial app, dubbed Facebook Research, from the iOS app store after coming under fire for essentially paying teenagers to let the company spy on their mobile activity. The story on Tuesday by TechCrunch found that since 2016 the company has been paying users, mostly teens, to download a VPN app that gives the
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making it a priority this year to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, according to a New York Times report published on Friday. Sources told the New York Times that Facebook wants to, “Build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and
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To say Facebook has had a tumultuous 2018 would be the understatement of the year. The company has faced a barrage of criticism for its mishandling of user data and unsecured platforms. This month, the New York Times reported it gave Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and other companies “far greater” access to user data than what
After today’s publication of an article in the New York Times detailing an investigation that uncovered more than 270 pages of Facebook’s internal documents and involved interviews with more than 60 people, Facebook and Microsoft are sharing their points-of-view about how they were portrayed. The New York Times report, which appeared in Dealbook in the business
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During Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was working on a Clear History feature that would allow users to remove browsing history from their accounts. There has been little news on how the feature would work or when it would be available since Zuckerberg first mentioned it more than
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Facebook confirmed this week that searches off of the platform do not influence Facebook search results. Aiming to be more transparent about how Facebook’s search graph works, product manager Yee Lee explained all the things that do — and don’t — impact Facebook searches in a blog post Friday. Factors that influence Facebook search results.
