October 31, 2018 Congressman Brady warns of retaliation for UK tech tax targeting companies like Facebook and Google Congressman Kevin Brady, R-Tx., warned Wednesday of possible retaliation against the U.K. over plans to target Facebook and Amazon with a $510 million (£400 million) digital services tax.
October 31, 2018 Facebook sees slower growth as it revamps Facebook Inc. recorded lower third-quarter revenue than expected and warned that it is in the early stages of a transformation in its core businesses that will lead to slower growth and higher costs in the short term.
October 25, 2018 Facebook is building glasses that could beam virtual friends into your home Facebook has confirmed it's working on a pair of augmented reality glasses.
October 25, 2018 Ex-Facebook exec slams Apple CEO's 'hypocrisy' over privacy Former Facebook Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos has come out and lambasted Apple CEO Tim Cook for his stance on privacy, especially as it relates to limiting access to apps in China.
October 25, 2018 Facebook removed 8.7 million sexual photos of children in last three months Facebook removed 8.7 million user images of child nudity with the aid of software that automatically flags such photographs, the company disclosed on Wednesday.
October 24, 2018 Facebook Messenger gets a big makeover Change is hard, so brace yourself, Facebook Messenger users: an app overhaul is on the way.
October 23, 2018 Google, Facebook and Twitter staffs splurge on Democrats ahead of midterms Google, Facebook and Twitter employees have donated substantially more to Democrats than Republicans with the 2018 midterms less than three weeks away.
October 18, 2018 Inside Facebook's cybersecurity 'war room,' scientists fight to safeguard elections Deep 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.
October 18, 2018 In Facebook's effort to fight fake news, human fact-checkers struggle to keep up At 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.
