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Here Is Facebook’s Dubious Plan to Prevent Its 2016 Election Catastrophe From Happening Again

Pressure has been mounting on Facebook and its leadership to make big privacy changes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal—in which it lost control over extensive data on what it now says are 87 million users—and after weeks of hedging and minor tweaks around the margins, the company has begun to make other…

Social Media Tom McKay

Facebook Will Reportedly Let You Unsend Messages, Just Like Its Fancy Executives [UPDATED]

Facebook’s hypocritical protection of its executives’ privacy while hanging everyone else out to dry was highlighted on Thursday night when it confirmed Mark Zuckerberg has the ability to delete Messenger communications from other peoples’ inboxes. Now, Facebook is going to give everyone that option. In no hurry to take another public beating, it seems Facebook…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook Will Now More Formally Consider How Its Products Might Ruin Our Lives

Facebook screwed over most of its users, and people are now waking up to the notion that the social network may not have had their best interests in mind after all. But Facebook’s chief technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, assured the Financial Times that the company will now do more to identify the possible downsides of…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely

Have you ever sent an email or text that you wish you could take back and delete forever? That’s not possible on the open web. But we now know that Mark Zuckerberg has the power to reach into every single Facebook inbox and delete messages that he’s sent. Zuck and other executives at Facebook have…

Social Media Matt Novak

Facebook Decides to Back Off Creepy Hospital Data-Sharing Project for Some Reason

In what might be the shortest time yet for an Onion headline to nearly mirror reality, Facebook has backed off plans to share sensitive info about your inner life with doctors and hospitals. And all it took was the company being embroiled in a cataclysmic data-sharing scandal. As first reported by CNBC on Thursday, Facebook’s…

Social Media Ed Cara

Facebook Just Made a Shocking Admission, and We’re All Too Exhausted to Notice

Since the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal first broke last month, Facebook has tried out a number of PR strategies to address the growing outcry. At this point, the social media company is just going for broke, telling the public it should just assume that “most” of the 2.2 billion Facebook users have probably had their…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Sound Like They’re Miserable [Updated]

At the end of 2016, Facebook delegated its misinformation problem to outside experts, but it looks like fact-checkers tasked with weeding out bullshit are largely dissatisfied with how things are going down. A new report released Wednesday by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism explores Facebook’s partnership with its fact-checking organizations, revealing a number of…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

Good News, We’re Getting Two Congressional Hearings With Mark Zuckerberg for the Price of One

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg—who has (reluctantly) become the face of the company’s response to the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal—will testify not just in front of the House Energy and Commerce Commitee next week as previously reported, but a joint hearing of the Senate as well. Per CBS News, Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the…

Social Media Tom McKay

Mark Zuckerberg: Actually, We Are Going to Roll Out Fancy EU Privacy Controls Everywhere

“Look, this is bad,” Mark Zuckerberg told reporters during an impromptu conference call on Wednesday. The Facebook CEO spent much of the time taking responsibility for the privacy scandals that have consumed his company recently, but he also pointed out that he’s been the victim of fake news. Contrary to a recent Reuters report, he…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Tinder Is Down, and Sad, Horny Users Correctly Blame Facebook

Tinder is down, according to a number of users on Twitter who are unable to log into the dating app. Instead, they are stuck in a Facebook permissions loop. Trying times for the thirsty. Several publications and some users are pinning the blame on Facebook. On Wednesday, the social network announced changes to its API,…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

Now Facebook Says It Shared the Data of ‘Up to 87 Million’ Users with Cambridge Analytica

Facebook just revealed a frightening new figure for the number of users whose data was improperly shared by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. That number is now as high as 87 million. Whistleblower Christopher Wylie had previously said that more than 50 million people were affected. Now, according to Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, “up to…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes

Facebook Just Updated Its Terms and Data Policy—Good Luck Understanding It

In what it presumably hopes will be seen as swift and stern action to inform and protect its users, Facebook announced new terms of service and a new data policy on Wednesday. Don’t worry, though, it’s not like the company has gone soft in his war on privacy. It’s just more explicitly copping to the…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes

Evasive Mark Zuckerberg Is Finally Going to Testify Before Congress Next Week

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee next Wednesday, the committee’s site confirmed early this morning. In a joint statement, Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. said they’ll press Zuckerberg on Facebook’s handling of users’ personal data in the wake of…

Social Media Sidney Fussell

Mark Zuckerberg: Boy That EU Privacy Law Is Great, Just You Know, Only in the EU

Facebook has spent the past few weeks on an apology tour amid the fallout of its Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal, in which the company lost control of extensive information on 50 million users harvested without their consent. They’ve dispatched founder Mark Zuckerberg to recite talking points, shuffled around some privacy settings, recalibrated Zuckerberg’s talking points,…

Social Media Tom McKay

Mark Zuckerberg’s Rote Talking Points Are Stronger Than Ever

It was recently revealed that Facebook lost control of 50 million users private data and it ended up in the hands of a sleazy political data analytics company. Then Mark Zuckerberg took five days to acknowledge the scandal. Now, Zuck is on a media tour and he’s refining his ruminative, valueless answers by the day.…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook Blames a ‘Bug’ for Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos

Did you ever record a video on Facebook to post directly to your friend’s wall, only to discard the take and film a new version? You may have thought those embarrassing draft versions were deleted, but Facebook kept a copy. The company is blaming it on a “bug” and swears that it’s going to delete…

Social Media Matt Novak

Report: Facebook Staff Suddenly Concerned About Privacy, Specifically Theirs

The ridiculous mess over at Facebook has continued to get worse, with staff allegedly in a full-on “uproar” over the fallout of the leak of consumer hardware VP Andrew Bosworth’s 2016 memo claiming things like terrorism and cyberbullying suicides were justifiable side effects of the site’s continued growth. Per the New York Times, what began…

Social Media Tom McKay

Facebook’s Plan To Fight Election Interference Includes Weeding Out Fake Memes and Videos

Facebook has started fact-checking photos and videos, as a part of a larger plan to prevent foreign agents from using the platform to spread propaganda and influence elections. Executives on Thursday explained Facebook’s plans in a blog post and on a conference call with journalists. Some of the plans had already been announced—for instance, verifying…

Social Media Jennings Brown

Amazon Lost $53 Billion in One Day Because Trump Has Opinions

With politicians, users, and even its own employees furious with Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s hard to imagine that a company could be more screwed than the social network. But we live in Trump world now, and his “obsession” with punishing Amazon is causing investors to flee at a cost…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Facebook: Would It Help If We Traded Less User Info With Huge Data Brokers?

Facebook’s big data-sharing scandal apology tour continued on Wednesday with the announcement the site would be cancelling its “Partner Categories” advertising section, in which the site partners with third-party data brokers to aggregate even more monetizable information about users. Per the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is under the impression that this will somehow help dispel…

Social Media Tom McKay

Here Is Facebook’s Dubious Plan to Prevent Its 2016 Election Catastrophe From Happening Again

Facebook Will Reportedly Let You Unsend Messages, Just Like Its Fancy Executives [UPDATED]

Facebook Will Now More Formally Consider How Its Products Might Ruin Our Lives

Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely

Facebook Decides to Back Off Creepy Hospital Data-Sharing Project for Some Reason

Facebook Just Made a Shocking Admission, and We’re All Too Exhausted to Notice

Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Sound Like They’re Miserable [Updated]

Good News, We’re Getting Two Congressional Hearings With Mark Zuckerberg for the Price of One

Mark Zuckerberg: Actually, We Are Going to Roll Out Fancy EU Privacy Controls Everywhere

Tinder Is Down, and Sad, Horny Users Correctly Blame Facebook

Now Facebook Says It Shared the Data of ‘Up to 87 Million’ Users with Cambridge Analytica

Facebook Just Updated Its Terms and Data Policy—Good Luck Understanding It

Evasive Mark Zuckerberg Is Finally Going to Testify Before Congress Next Week

Mark Zuckerberg: Boy That EU Privacy Law Is Great, Just You Know, Only in the EU

Mark Zuckerberg’s Rote Talking Points Are Stronger Than Ever

Facebook Blames a ‘Bug’ for Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos

Report: Facebook Staff Suddenly Concerned About Privacy, Specifically Theirs

Facebook’s Plan To Fight Election Interference Includes Weeding Out Fake Memes and Videos

Amazon Lost $53 Billion in One Day Because Trump Has Opinions

Facebook: Would It Help If We Traded Less User Info With Huge Data Brokers?

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Here Is Facebook’s Dubious Plan to Prevent Its 2016 Election Catastrophe From Happening Again

Facebook Will Reportedly Let You Unsend Messages, Just Like Its Fancy Executives [UPDATED]

Facebook Will Now More Formally Consider How Its Products Might Ruin Our Lives

Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely

Facebook Decides to Back Off Creepy Hospital Data-Sharing Project for Some Reason

Facebook Just Made a Shocking Admission, and We’re All Too Exhausted to Notice

Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Sound Like They’re Miserable [Updated]

Good News, We’re Getting Two Congressional Hearings With Mark Zuckerberg for the Price of One

Mark Zuckerberg: Actually, We Are Going to Roll Out Fancy EU Privacy Controls Everywhere

Tinder Is Down, and Sad, Horny Users Correctly Blame Facebook

Now Facebook Says It Shared the Data of ‘Up to 87 Million’ Users with Cambridge Analytica

Facebook Just Updated Its Terms and Data Policy—Good Luck Understanding It

Evasive Mark Zuckerberg Is Finally Going to Testify Before Congress Next Week

Mark Zuckerberg: Boy That EU Privacy Law Is Great, Just You Know, Only in the EU

Mark Zuckerberg’s Rote Talking Points Are Stronger Than Ever

Facebook Blames a ‘Bug’ for Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos

Report: Facebook Staff Suddenly Concerned About Privacy, Specifically Theirs

Facebook’s Plan To Fight Election Interference Includes Weeding Out Fake Memes and Videos

Amazon Lost $53 Billion in One Day Because Trump Has Opinions

Facebook: Would It Help If We Traded Less User Info With Huge Data Brokers?

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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