3:131 day agoDisabled veteran says Facebook blacklisted himOn 'The Ingraham Angle,' combat veteran Brian Kolfage says he will take the fight to Facebook.
1 day agoInside Facebook's cybersecurity 'war room,' scientists fight to safeguard electionsDeep in the trenches of Facebook's sprawling Menlo Park, Calif. campus, security experts, threat intelligence investigators, data scientists and engineers are manning a war room to root out misinformation and bad actors ahead of next month's midterm elections.
1 day agoIn Facebook's effort to fight fake news, human fact-checkers struggle to keep upAt Facebook Inc. headquarters in Silicon Valley this week, engineers and researchers huddled around computers in a newly configured “war room” to fight misinformation ahead of the midterms. Almost 3,000 miles away, in Philadelphia, the fact-checkers hired to be on the front lines haven’t received fresh marching orders.
5:542 days agoFacebook creates cybersecurity war room ahead of midtermsFacebook head of cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher details the company's efforts to ensure that public debate on the platform is authentic.
2 days agoFacebook finds hack was done by spammers, not foreign stateFacebook believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users were spammers looking to make money through deceptive advertising, according to people familiar with the company’s internal investigation.
Breaking News2 days agoArmy veteran wages war on social-media disinformationKris Goldsmith’s campaign to get Facebook Inc. to close fake accounts targeting U.S. veterans started with a simple search.
2 days agoFacebook posts may reveal your depression, study saysFacebook is able to predict whether users are suffering from depression based on their status updates, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
3 days agoFacebook to ban voting misinformation as midterm elections approachFacebook is cracking down on efforts to prevent voter suppression with the midterms less than a month away.
4:313 days agoEngineer explains why he left FacebookFormer Facebook engineer Brian Amerige quits the company after denouncing it as a left-wing monolith.
October 12Facebook says hackers accessed phone numbers, email addresses as part of latest breachFacebook said hackers were able to access phone numbers, email addresses and search information as part of the most recent data breach, although it said the breach affected about 30 million, fewer than previously thought.
