February 19, 2018 Facebook to verify ads with postcards after Russian meddling MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook will soon rely on centuries-old technology to try to prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections: the post office.
February 16, 2018 Internet Research Agency indicted: Who is the Russian company behind the fake Facebook ads? In Sept. 2017, Facebook's announced that it uncovered approximately $100,000 in fraudulent ad spending has shed new light on the Russian company purportedly behind the ads that may have helped shape the 2016 U.S. election. And now, a federal grand jury has indicted 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian entities accused of violating U.S. law for interfering in U.S. elections, including the Internet Research Agency.
February 15, 2018 Smart speakers: Facebook apparently has Amazon’s Echo Show in its sights Amazon has lots, Google has three, and Apple has one. Now Facebook looks as if it's about to launch its own smart speakers, with two display-equipped devices expected land in July, 2018.
February 14, 2018 YouTube allows Instagram ad next to video from Hamas cleric Sheikh Bassam Jarrar YouTube, which has suffered a rash of recent embarrassments over content that is violent, hurtful to children or part of a “fake news” scam—can’t even seem to protect a fellow tech company advertising on its platform.
February 14, 2018 YouTube boss says Facebook should ‘get back to baby pictures’ Facebook's video ambitions seem to be causing YouTube some concern, with CEO Susan Wojcicki suggesting in an interview this week that the social networking giant should "get back to baby pictures."
February 13, 2018 UK touts way to block ISIS propaganda from appearing online The U.K. government is harnessing machine learning to combat jihadist content before it even appears online.
February 12, 2018 German court rules several Facebook settings violate laws BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that Facebook's insistence that users provide their real names violates the country's data protection laws.
February 12, 2018 Facebook has an interesting dating rule Buried in a larger piece about how companies are handling employee relationships in the wake of the #metoo movement—the upshot: they're reexamining their relationship policies and, per one lawyer, "drawing a hard line in the sand" about those in plum positions dating subordinates—comes an interesting dating nugget.
February 12, 2018 Facebook is losing young people in the US - and there isn't anything they can do about it The king of all social media is rapidly losing some of its most valuable subjects – and it looks like it's about to get worse.
February 12, 2018 Unilever threatens Facebook, Google with online advertising cuts Unilever, one of the world's largest advertisers, is threatening to pull its investment and marketing from tech giants such as Google and Facebook if the platforms “create division,” fuel hateful views or fail to protect children, Reuters reports.
