August 31, 2018 Grieving dad slammed Facebook after 'sick sadist' trolled him about his dead daughter A grief stricken British father lashed out at Facebook after a ‘sick sadist’ admitted that he posted derogatory material about his dead young daughter.
August 30, 2018 Facebook 'sorry' after removing Holocaust picture of naked starving children posted by Anne Frank Center Facebook apologized after it removed a post from the Anne Frank Center that was seeking to raise awareness of the Holocaust and depicted children who had been stripped naked and starved by the Nazis.
August 29, 2018 Dozens of Facebook employees challenge 'intolerant' liberal culture A senior Facebook engineer called out what he termed the company’s “political monoculture” in an internal message board post, prompting over 100 fellow employees to join a group advocating for political diversity.
August 28, 2018 Facebook continues to get hit, as teens leave in droves Beleaguered Facebook has seen its user growth stagnate and even drop in lucrative markets such as the U.S. and Europe in recent months. As the company continues to deal with foreign threats and fake news, the company's lifeblood, its user base, won't be getting any help from teenagers.
August 27, 2018 Facebook 'shamed' LGBT users with 'gay cure' ads Facebook showed "predatory" gay conversion therapy adverts to young LGBT people designed to "shame" and "hurt" them.
August 26, 2018 Facebook testing a label to show what you have in common with random people Facebook has devised another way to “connect” you with some of the 2 billion people on its network.
August 22, 2018 Facebook unveils new tools in its political ads database to combat abuse, disinformation Facebook announced a new way for users to easily find and scrutinize political ads in its database, the company announced on Wednesday.
August 21, 2018 Facebook purges hundreds of pages, groups, accounts linked to Russia, Iran Facebook announced Tuesday night that it had removed 652 pages, groups and accounts linked to Iran for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" -- including the sharing of political material -- and had also removed other pages tied to Russian military intelligence services.
August 21, 2018 Facebook has trust ratings for users, but it won't tell you your score Facebook is rating users based on how "trustworthy" it thinks they are.
August 19, 2018 Facebook allows landlords to discriminate on housing ads, HUD charges Facebook is under fire for housing ads that a U.S. government agency says are discriminatory.