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Dude Who Tried to Shake Down Mark Zuckerberg Caught in Ecuador After Three Years on the Run

A few years ago, a man named Paul Ceglia filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that the two signed a software development contract in 2003 with provisions conveniently giving Ceglia retroactive co-ownership of the site. Authorities later alleged that Ceglia, an upstate New York wood pellet salesman who has had…

Tech News Tom McKay

Facebook Pushes Back on Reporting About its User Trust Ranking

As disclosed by the Washington Post this morning, Facebook has been ranking users on their trustworthiness in identifying false information—though in a statement to Gizmodo, the platform distanced itself from implications that trust rank is broadly applicable to all facets of the network. “The idea that we have a centralized ‘reputation’ score for people that…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Facebook Got Mad at Us, Samsung Note 9, and Ajit Pai: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a neo-Nazi car attack that killed local woman Heather Heyer and wounded scores of others, as well as resulted in the deaths of two police officers. The organizer of that rally, Jason…

Tech News Tom McKay

Is Mark Zuckerberg Wet or Dry?

As the sun passed over Gizmodo’s New York office on Monday and staffers shook off the muggy torpor of the mid-afternoon, they found themselves drawn into a (seemingly simple, yet surprisingly contentious) debate: Is Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, a dry man? Or is he a wet one? The question first arose…

Tech News Hudson Hongo

John Oliver Makes Facebook’s TV Ad a Little More Honest

Do you remember Facebook’s terrible TV ad back in April that tried to “apologize” for abusing your data? It was disingenuous bullshit. But with Facebook back in the news after the company lost $120 billion in value last week, John Oliver has revived the ad. Only this time the TV spot has a little more…

Tech News Matt Novak

Facebook’s Stock In Free Fall Because Everyone Already Uses It

Investors are fleeing Facebook’s stock in after-hours trading after the company’s first real post-scandal earnings report missed expectations. Investors are maniacs. Facebook is massive, it’s making massive amounts of money, and it’s practically gobbled up every user it could potentially have. When we say that Facebook has brought “everyone” on the internet under its umbrella,…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook and Instagram Now Encouraging Moderators to Narc on Underage Users

It just became more difficult for children under the age of 13 to use Facebook and Instagram. Facebook already doesn’t technically allow children under the age of 13 to create accounts. But until recently, Facebook only looked into children’s accounts if someone reported them for being underage. Now, when reviewers come across accounts appearing to…

Social Media Jennings Brown

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Great Idea for How to Fix Facebook

In a new interview published today, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg goes long on a wide range of topics including selling data, taking holocaust deniers at their word, fake news, and one simple idea that’s crazy enough, it just might work. Speaking with Recode, Zuckerberg continued his apology tour that’s followed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook Stock Hits All-Time Record High Despite Ongoing Screw-Ups

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the social media giant gave access to the data of up to 87 million users to an app partnered with an ultra-sketchy election data firm, still isn’t totally resolved, with news breaking this week investigators from four agencies are looking into Facebook’s conduct. But all the negative attention the…

Social Media Tom McKay

The DOJ, FBI, SEC, and FTC Are All Now Investigating Facebook’s Role in Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The federal investigation into Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal—in which prior versions of Facebook’s advertising API allowed the shady election data firm to partner with an app to harvest data on at least 87 million users without their consent—has expanded to include a multi-agency inquiry into the social network’s data practices. Per the Washington Post,…

Social Media Tom McKay

Facebook Discloses More Data Sharing Partnerships As the Hits Just Keep Coming

It’s a day of the week, so that means it’s time for more revelations about Facebook’s sharing habits that it hadn’t previously revealed to users. In the latest entry in the endless attempt at retroactive transparency, Facebook revealed to Congress that it shared data with 52 hardware and software companies, including some firms headquartered in…

Social Media AJ Dellinger

Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone’s Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV

You may have seen the ads that Facebook has been running on TV in a full-court press to apologize for abusing users privacy. They’re embarrassing. And, it turns out, they may be a sign of things to come. Based on a recently published patent application, Facebook could one day use ads on television to further…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook Filibustered the Shit Out of Congress With a 450-Page Response to Its Questions

It’s been two months since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hours testifying before Congress, and the company has finally provided answers to the Senate portion of the hearing. The 450-page document mostly does a lawyer-dance around uncomfortable topics. But there are some revealing tidbits of information as well. When Zuckerberg took questions from two Senate…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Why I Can’t Delete Facebook

I wish I knew how to quit Facebook. But the site has me locked in its grasp.

Social Media Harri Weber

Facebook Is Trying to Kill Its New Privacy Scandal on a Technicality

Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke in March, Facebook has been scrambling to change its policies and reassure the public that it no longer recklessly shares data with third parties. But on Sunday we learned that it has quietly been giving device makers access to users data this whole time. It argues this…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook Officially Less Popular with American Teens Than Instagram and Snapchat

It’s official. Facebook is no longer number one with teens. A new study from the Pew Research Center found that just 51 percent of Americans from 13 to 17-years-old say they use Facebook. That’s down from 71 percent in 2015. Those same teens now use Instagram (72 percent) and Snapchat (69 percent) to connect online.…

Social Media Matt Novak

Papua New Guinea to Block Facebook for a Month, Might Launch State-Run Alternative

Papua New Guinea, a nation of over 8 million, has announced that it will shut down Facebook for a month. The PNG government says that the shutdown will give it time to assess the spread of objectionable content on the site like porn and fake news. The government also said that it’s exploring the creation…

Social Media Matt Novak

Facebook and Google Accused of Violating GDPR on First Day of the New European Privacy Law

When Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of members of the European Parliament on Tuesday, he insisted that Facebook was ready for Friday, the day when the European Unions’s strict new data privacy law went into effect. But users in Europe have already filed complaints against Facebook and others today, saying the tech companies are in…

Social Media Matt Novak

Dozens of American News Sites Blocked in Europe as GDPR Goes Into Effect Today

The European Union’s digital privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), officially went into effect today. But some websites in the U.S. have decided to block their services entirely rather than adhere to the new regulations. Dozens of American newspapers are currently blocked in Europe and web services like Instapaper have suspended…

Privacy & Security Matt Novak

Facebook Wants a Social Security Number From Political Advertisers

Facebook already has more data on most people than it knows what to do with but the company announced Thursday that it will need a few more vital pieces of personal information from anyone hoping to place political ads on its platform, including a government-issued ID and social security number. In a blog post, Facebook…

Social Media AJ Dellinger

Dude Who Tried to Shake Down Mark Zuckerberg Caught in Ecuador After Three Years on the Run

Facebook Pushes Back on Reporting About its User Trust Ranking

Facebook Got Mad at Us, Samsung Note 9, and Ajit Pai: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Is Mark Zuckerberg Wet or Dry?

John Oliver Makes Facebook’s TV Ad a Little More Honest

Facebook’s Stock In Free Fall Because Everyone Already Uses It

Facebook and Instagram Now Encouraging Moderators to Narc on Underage Users

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Great Idea for How to Fix Facebook

Facebook Stock Hits All-Time Record High Despite Ongoing Screw-Ups

The DOJ, FBI, SEC, and FTC Are All Now Investigating Facebook’s Role in Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Facebook Discloses More Data Sharing Partnerships As the Hits Just Keep Coming

Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone’s Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV

Facebook Filibustered the Shit Out of Congress With a 450-Page Response to Its Questions

Why I Can’t Delete Facebook

Facebook Is Trying to Kill Its New Privacy Scandal on a Technicality

Facebook Officially Less Popular with American Teens Than Instagram and Snapchat

Papua New Guinea to Block Facebook for a Month, Might Launch State-Run Alternative

Facebook and Google Accused of Violating GDPR on First Day of the New European Privacy Law

Dozens of American News Sites Blocked in Europe as GDPR Goes Into Effect Today

Facebook Wants a Social Security Number From Political Advertisers

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