November 3, 2017 Twitter revamps internal security after rogue employee deactivated Trump's account Twitter says that it has revamped its internal security after a rogue employee briefly deactivated President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
November 3, 2017 11-minute Trump Twitter outage prompts company investigation President Trump’s Twitter account was briefly deactivated on Thursday by a “customer support” worker at the social media giant, the company said in a statement, modifying its earlier response that faulted “human error.”
November 1, 2017 Facebook: Russian-backed content reached 20 million Americans on Instagram Facebook said Wednesday that about 20 million people Americans may have seen Russian-backed content on Instagram.
November 1, 2017 Facebook, Twitter, Google execs testify on Capitol Hill as part of Russia probe A Facebook executive told a Senate panel Tuesday that they “should have had a broader lens” into currency used for payments of political advertisements on their social media platform during the 2016 presidential election.
October 31, 2017 Twitter homepage features crude attack against Chrissy Teigen At a time when Twitter is trying to curb trolling and incendiary use of its platform, its logged-out homepage features one of its users attacking model Chrissy Teigen.
October 31, 2017 Petition urges Facebook to reveal details of 'Russian propaganda' More than 81,000 people have signed a petition calling on Facebook to inform users how they were exposed to “Russian propaganda.”
October 30, 2017 Facebook: Up to 126 million people saw Russian-backed content Facebook Inc. estimates that about 126 million people may have seen content posted by Russian-backed accounts over more than two years that sought to disrupt American society, the social-media giant plans to tell congressional investigators Tuesday, according to a prepared copy of the remarks obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
October 26, 2017 Twitter aims to boost user safety, updates its rules Twitter is making a host of changes to its rules in an attempt to boost safety for the site’s users.
October 26, 2017 Google is recording everything you say to a bot – right now I made this discovery by accident.
October 25, 2017 Not at home? Amazon wants to come in and drop off packages Is Amazon taking convenience a bit too far? Some customers think so after the online retail mogul announced their newest product today: “Amazon Key.”
