A Republican senator who works on antitrust says that social media, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, have done more harm than good and they should “disappear.” In an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley made the strongest comments against Facebook and other social media giants by a prominent elected official. Presidential […]
Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You Closer Than Ever…
Among the mega-corporations that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one small device you keep on you at almost every moment. A confidential Facebook document reviewed by The Intercept shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 […]
Teen Kills Herself After Instagram Poll Results Tell Her To…
A 16-year-old Malaysian teen reportedly committed suicide Monday after the results of an Instagram poll instructed her to do so. Before jumping to her death, the unnamed girl ran a poll on her Instagram account asking her followers if she should commit suicide. The poll read, “Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L,” the D and […]
Day of the Long Knives by Raheem Kassam…
Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos have been unpersonned by the digital tech giant Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. They’re coming for you, next. Or more likely, for us. Human Events stands shoulder-to-shoulder with those being routinely targeted by the would-be ‘Masters of the Universe’, no matter if we agree with […]
The Masters of the Universe at Facebook Ban Multiple Conservative Personalities…
Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists…
Facebook Quietly Notifies Public That Millions of Instagram Users Had Passwords Exposed…
While everyone was focused on the release of the Mueller report Thursday, Facebook quietly notified the public that the passwords of “millions of Instagram users” were stored in an unencrypted format on an internal server, and searchable by any employee. The company had initially said it was “tens of thousands” of Instagram users. That said, […]
Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext—Change Yours Now…Seriously, Change It Now…
Facebook Blames Massive Outage On “Server Configuration Change”, Apple Now Showing iCloud Outages…
Update 3/14/2019 2:26PM EST: In what could be unrelated similar news, Apple’s System Status Support page on Thursday showed a number of outages and issues, primarily with iCloud. The timing of the outage, one day after Facebook’s outage, is notable, though there are no confirmed links. Here’s what Apple’s support page showed at 2:26PM EST […]
Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage…
WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess […]