Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the latest sign of the tech mogul’s personal outreach amid mounting scrutiny from Washington. Despite the president’s history of accusing Facebook of being anti-Trump, suggesting the company is an antitrust problem, and criticizing its digital currency, Libra, both Trump and […]
Facebook Took No Action When ‘Vets for Trump’ Page Was Hijacked by Foreigners…
The Washington Post published an article recently titled “The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back.” which outlines how the owners of a Facebook page where former U.S. service members proclaimed their support of President Donald Trump were locked out […]
Facebook to Train AI Systems Using Police Video…
Facebook will work with law enforcement organizations to train its artificial intelligence systems to recognize videos of violent events as part of a broader effort to crack down on extremism. Facebook’s AI systems were unable to detect live-streamed video of a mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. The effort will use body-cam […]
DOJ Says Federal Judge Misinterpreted Indictment Against Russian Company…
The Justice Department stunned a federal judge in Washington on Monday by arguing she misinterpreted an indictment brought against a Russian company charged with funding a troll campaign to manipulate the American public during the 2016 presidential race. A federal prosecutor told U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich that an opinion she issued last year – […]
Facebook of the Sky: Airbus Tests Program to Track Everything You Do During Flights…
Business Insider reports that the aviation giant Airbus announced this week that it has started in-flight trials of its newest cabin technology which will connect passengers and crew to different elements of the plane such as seats, cargo, and bathrooms. Airbus unveiled its plans for its Connected Experience at the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) […]
Facebook Sanctions Netanyahu Page Over Hate Speech Violation…
Facebook says it has sanctioned the page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because of a violation of the company’s hate speech policy. Facebook said on Thursday that the social network had suspended for 24 hours the page’s bot, or automated chat function. The page had called on voters to prevent the establishment of a […]
Bipartisan Coalition of State AG’s to Launch Google, Facebook Antitrust Probes…
State attorneys general are formally launching separate antitrust probes into Facebook Inc. FB -1.82% and Alphabet Inc. GOOG -0.58% ’s Google unit starting next week, putting added pressure on tech giants already under federal scrutiny. New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday that her office was organizing a bipartisan, multi-state probe into social media […]
Former FCC Bureau Chief: Masters of the Universe ‘Abused’ Section 230 to Censor Conservatives…
Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that America’s largest technology companies have “abused” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to censor conservatives. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and other conservatives have often contended that the “predicate” for enacting Section 230 […]
Facebook Has Been Secretly Transcribing Your Conversations…
Facebook has been clandestinely accumulating written transcriptions of its users’ conversations, which the social media giant recorded through their phone microphones. That’s according to third-party contractors who spoke to Bloomberg about the practice. The contractors said that they were paid to listen in on countless, occasional vulgar conversations among Facebook Messenger users, though the company […]
I Tried Hiding from Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets by Joel Stein…
As the spy gear piles up on my desk, my 10-year-old son asks me what my mission is. “I’m hiding,” I whisper, pointing in the direction I think is north, which is something I should probably know as a spy. “From Silicon Valley.” It isn’t going to be easy. I use Google, Facebook, Amazon, Lyft, […]
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