People who are just trying to be good citizens of Facebookland, by reporting fake accounts set up by, say, a scammer pretending to be their dead granny, are being locked out of their own accounts by what looks like a glitch in Facebook’s…
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Facebook is removing the gray verified badges meant to show Page authenticity starting October 28. Page owners will begin seeing notices via their Page this week. “Based on feedback, we’re removing the gray badge and focusing on other ways…
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Following a series of security mishaps and data abuse through its social media platform, Facebook today expanding its bug bounty program in a very unique way to beef up the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its…
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Facebook is putting its money where its mouth is on security and privacy, announcing Tuesday that it’ll be expanding several of its bug bounty programs, including bonus payouts for rare vulnerabilities. In a series of blog posts, the…
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Facebook started in a dorm room as a network exclusively for students and turned into a 2 billion user platform successful enough to bring accusations of holding a monopoly, but the company’s latest app aimed at Generation Z has sputtered…
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Twitter said will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules. The social media giant said in a tweet that the move will help its users to be informed but while taking responsibility for keeping its…
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Last week, Facebook said it had changed its advertising policies to exempt politicians and political parties from rules banning misinformation. As a result, candidates are now free to lie in their ads, and some of them are already doing…
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If you received a suspicious Facebook message from your dead granny looking to tell you about a great new financial opportunity, you’d report the fraudulent account to Facebook, wouldn’t you? That’s exactly what many Facebook users said…
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A predator has confessed to stalking and attacking a young Japanese pop star by zooming in on the reflections in her eyes from photos she posted on social media. Oriental Daily reports that 21-year-old Japanese idol Matsuoka Nagato was…
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Snapchat went down yet again on Monday morning, the latest in a string of outages to affect the app. The Snapchat outage began just after 8 a.m. PT on Monday, with users reporting that they were unable to send snaps, receive snaps, or even…
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Facebook has long touted the efficacy of its AI-powered tools for helping weed out prohibited content, but the company today conceded that its technology is simply not up to meeting a recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling requiring…
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Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers. Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical…
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We know that Facebook tracks what we do to flag our interests for use in targeted advertising. But the algorithm it uses to do so is marking thousands of kids as being interested in booze and gambling, which could lead to them being…
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Finco Services of Delaware has initiated a lawsuit against Facebook in a New York court, Oct.10, over the swirly tilde logo Facebook uses for its Libra token. The plaintiff is also suing its former designer, who did the logo work for…
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Facebook is planing to release PyTorch Mobile for deploying machine learning models on Android and iOS devices. PyTorch Mobile was released today alongside PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of Facebook’s open source deep learning library…
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Facebook is now testing removing the like counter from timeline posts. This follows Instagram’s decision to hide the number of likes for photos and YouTube’s decision to started phasing out exact counts for public-facing subscriber numbers…
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After being down for a few hours for users worldwide, Snapchat’s app appears to be working again. According to Down Detector, users were having trouble receiving and sending snaps, as well as dealing with issues with the app itself loading…
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Belle Delphine, the gamer girl best known for selling jars of her own “bathwater,” says she was arrested after spray-painting someone’s car. On Monday, Delphine tweeted what appeared to be her own mugshot with the caption “I got arrested…
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Twitter said on Tuesday email addresses and phone numbers uploaded by users to meet its security requirements may have been “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes. The micro-blogging site said the issue was rectified as of September…
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Facebook is bringing its Portal devices to the workplace for people to make voice and video calls. Workplace by Facebook delivered a number of upgrades as part of its Flow by Workplace conference being held today in Menlo Park, including…
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Instagram is going dark to make those midnight scrolls easier on the eyes. An update brings compatibility with the iOS 13 and Android 10 dark mode to the photo-centric social platform, as well as a new feature to prevent phishing.…
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Twitter has said it used phone numbers and email addresses, provided by users to set up two-factor authentication on their accounts, to serve targeted ads. In a disclosure Tuesday, the social media giant said it did not know how many users…
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A Twitter security feature may’ve wound up costing people their data privacy, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Twitter said it recently discovered that email addresses and phone numbers meant to be used for security “may have…
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After launching an anti-bullying feature called Restrict, Instagram has now announced that it will now actively help users identify phishing scams. The tool will help users to stay away from hackers that send emails posing as Instagram.…
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Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature that became better known as a stalking tool than one to aid with new account discovery, as the company had intended. Today, Instagram says that its Explore tab is the go-to place to find…
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