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Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible…

Social Media Kashmir Hill

Facebook Caps Off 2018 With Yet Another Massive Privacy Scandal

This has been a terrible 2018 for Facebook so far, from numerous revelations about its shady privacy practices and high-profile political spats to admissions it helped enable genocide. With 13 days left in the year, it’s still getting worse. Much worse. According to a bombshell report in the New York Times on Tuesday, Facebook’s behind-the-scenes efforts to give select corporate…

Social Media Tom McKay

Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop It From Tracking Your Location

Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook’s access to her location in every way that she can. She has turned off location history in the Facebook app and told her iPhone that she “Never” wants the app to get her location. She doesn’t “check-in” to places and doesn’t list her current city on her profile. Despite…

Social Media Kashmir Hill

NAACP Calls for Facebook Boycott After Report Details Russian Trolls Targeted Black Communities

Starting today, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is calling for users to log out of Facebook and other Facebook-owned social media and chat apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. The weeklong boycott is in response to two reports released on Monday detailing how Russian hackers specifically targeted African Americans in the 2016…

Social Media Victoria Song

Facebook’s Post-Cambridge Analytica Privacy Tool Is Still Months Away

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook promised users a tool that would give them back some power over how extensively they can be tracked online. That was seven months ago. In May, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his personal page ahead of F8 that the company would roll out a feature called Clear…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

Guess What Facebook Fucked Up This Time

Facebook did it again. Adding to the social network’s ever-growing list of privacy controversies, Facebook says a bug may have exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million of its users during a 12-day period in September. During that time, the company says, third-party apps may have had access to more users’ photos than they…

Social Media Catie Keck

Facebook Portal Is Now Mildly More Useful

There’s a lot of issues with Facebook Portal, but one of them was the lack of apps and web browser at launch. Privacy concerns aside, you just couldn’t really make use of the smart display aside from its cool-yet-creepy video calls. Today, Facebook is rolling out some updates to fix that. For starters, ABC News…

Social Media Victoria Song

Would You Pay to Watch HBO on Facebook or Is Facebook Just Incredibly, Incredibly High

Hypothetical question: Assuming that Facebook wasn’t at once impressively incompetent, incredibly dangerous, and also, you know, evil, would you pay to watch some of your favorite movies or TV shows on its platform? Would you be willing to use your hard-earned money to transform Facebook into your one-stop-shop for devastating ennui as well as your…

Social Media Catie Keck

How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users

Last year, I was trying to solve a mystery. Facebook’s “People You May Know” tool was outing sex workers’ real identities to their clients, and vice versa, and I was trying to figure out how. A sex worker using the pseudonym Leila told me she had gone to great lengths to hide her identity from…

Social Media Kashmir Hill

Facebook Buildings in Menlo Park Evacuated After Bomb Threat

Numerous buildings on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California were evacuated Tuesday evening after local police were forwarded a tip about a bomb threat. Police searched the area and determined there were no explosives that could be found. Menlo Park PD tweeted overnight: At 4:32 PM, Menlo Park Police communications center received a call from…

Social Media Matt Novak

Sheryl Sandberg’s Request for Info on George Soros Was ‘Entirely Appropriate,’ Facebook Board Says

Facebook’s board of directors appears to be sticking to the script in the defense of its opposition research into George Soros, a vocal critic of the platform. In a letter reported Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal from Facebook’s board of directors to Patrick Gaspard, the president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the company…

Social Media Catie Keck

Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway

Back in 2015, Facebook had a pickle of a problem. It was time to update the Android version of the Facebook app, and two different groups within Facebook were at odds over what the data grab should be. The business team wanted to get Bluetooth permissions so it could push ads to people’s phones when…

Social Media Kashmir Hill

Mark Zuckerberg Was ‘Skeptical’ About Risk of Leaks Like Cambridge Analytica, Emails Show

Internal Facebook documents published today by the British Parliament give us more insight than ever into the mind of the largest social platform’s CEO. Among those revelations: Zuckerberg’s cavalier attitude towards the possibility of data leaks. The circumstances by which the parliament obtained these documents from U.S. software firm Six4Three were extraordinary, but so too…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Document Reveals Definers Narrative Behind Facebook’s George Soros Conspiracy Theory

Following reports that Facebook was involved with what amounted to a factually distorted smear campaign against philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros, BuzzFeed News has obtained one of the documents used by the opposition research firm Definers Public Affairs to disseminate that narrative to reporters. BuzzFeed News reported that the document was distributed to journalists…

Social Media Catie Keck

I Wanted to Stream Buffy, Angel, and Firefly for Free, But Not Like This

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and the good looking criminals of Firefly are finally going to be available for free online for anyone to revisit or watch for the first time. This should be a cause for celebration. But they’re coming back courtesy of Facebook Watch, and as much as I’d love for friends to…

Social Media Alex Cranz

Facebook and MIT Researchers Want to Use AI to Create Addresses for the Billions of People Who Don’t Have One

Facebook seems interested in moving into Google’s territory of, well, territory. The social media company teamed up with the MIT Media Lab to propose a new system for developing addresses using machine learning. The paper, released as a pre-print earlier this month by researchers Ilke Demir at Facebook and Ramesh Raskar of MIT, states that…

Social Media Jennings Brown

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Directly Requested Information on George Soros: Report

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was directly involved in the company’s decision to seek information on billionaire philanthropist and vocal Facebook critic George Soros, the New York Times reported Thursday. Citing people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation, the Times reported that Sandberg specifically requested information on Soros’ financial interests.…

Social Media Catie Keck

Facebook Says It Doesn’t Sell Your Data, But It Considered Selling Access to It, Documents Show

In April, Mark Zuckerberg told a congressional hearing, “I can’t be clearer on this topic: We don’t sell data.” But just because Facebook doesn’t currently sell data, it doesn’t mean they didn’t actively mull it over. Improperly redacted court documents from February 2017 show that Facebook explored charging companies for access to user data. The…

Social Media Victoria Song

Former Manager Says Facebook Discriminates Against, Excludes Black Users and Staff

A former Facebook strategic partner manager for global influencers, Mark S. Luckie, sent a 2,500 word memo to all of the company’s employees before his departure in November saying the company has “a black people problem,” the Guardian reported. In the memo, which Luckie also published in a public Facebook note on Tuesday, he wrote…

Social Media Tom McKay

Facebook’s Physical War Room Is Already Empty, But It Says ‘War Room Tactics’ Will Continue

Facebook’s so-called “War Room,” the office it set up with some monitors and staff to supposedly fight propaganda and disinformation during elections or at least fight the perception it wasn’t doing that, has been shuttered—in that form, anyhow. Per a report in Bloomberg on Monday on the many scandals surrounding the company’s embattled chief operating…

Social Media Tom McKay

Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Facebook Caps Off 2018 With Yet Another Massive Privacy Scandal

Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop It From Tracking Your Location

NAACP Calls for Facebook Boycott After Report Details Russian Trolls Targeted Black Communities

Facebook’s Post-Cambridge Analytica Privacy Tool Is Still Months Away

Guess What Facebook Fucked Up This Time

Facebook Portal Is Now Mildly More Useful

Would You Pay to Watch HBO on Facebook or Is Facebook Just Incredibly, Incredibly High

How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users

Facebook Buildings in Menlo Park Evacuated After Bomb Threat

Sheryl Sandberg’s Request for Info on George Soros Was ‘Entirely Appropriate,’ Facebook Board Says

Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway

Mark Zuckerberg Was ‘Skeptical’ About Risk of Leaks Like Cambridge Analytica, Emails Show

Document Reveals Definers Narrative Behind Facebook’s George Soros Conspiracy Theory

I Wanted to Stream Buffy, Angel, and Firefly for Free, But Not Like This

Facebook and MIT Researchers Want to Use AI to Create Addresses for the Billions of People Who Don’t Have One

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Directly Requested Information on George Soros: Report

Facebook Says It Doesn’t Sell Your Data, But It Considered Selling Access to It, Documents Show

Former Manager Says Facebook Discriminates Against, Excludes Black Users and Staff

Facebook’s Physical War Room Is Already Empty, But It Says ‘War Room Tactics’ Will Continue

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Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

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This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

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Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Facebook Caps Off 2018 With Yet Another Massive Privacy Scandal

Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop It From Tracking Your Location

NAACP Calls for Facebook Boycott After Report Details Russian Trolls Targeted Black Communities

Facebook’s Post-Cambridge Analytica Privacy Tool Is Still Months Away

Guess What Facebook Fucked Up This Time

Facebook Portal Is Now Mildly More Useful

Would You Pay to Watch HBO on Facebook or Is Facebook Just Incredibly, Incredibly High

How Facebook Schemed Against Its Users

Facebook Buildings in Menlo Park Evacuated After Bomb Threat

Sheryl Sandberg’s Request for Info on George Soros Was ‘Entirely Appropriate,’ Facebook Board Says

Facebook Was Fully Aware That Tracking Who People Call and Text Is Creepy But Did It Anyway

Mark Zuckerberg Was ‘Skeptical’ About Risk of Leaks Like Cambridge Analytica, Emails Show

Document Reveals Definers Narrative Behind Facebook’s George Soros Conspiracy Theory

I Wanted to Stream Buffy, Angel, and Firefly for Free, But Not Like This

Facebook and MIT Researchers Want to Use AI to Create Addresses for the Billions of People Who Don’t Have One

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Directly Requested Information on George Soros: Report

Facebook Says It Doesn’t Sell Your Data, But It Considered Selling Access to It, Documents Show

Former Manager Says Facebook Discriminates Against, Excludes Black Users and Staff

Facebook’s Physical War Room Is Already Empty, But It Says ‘War Room Tactics’ Will Continue

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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