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Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information
In an otherwise innocuous part of Facebook's expansive Silicon Valley campus, a locked door bears a taped-on sign that reads "War Room." Behind the door lies a nerve center the social network has set up to combat fake accounts and bogus news stories ahead ...
Spammers were behind recent Facebook data breach, company tentatively concludes
Facebook has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft at the social media company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The people behind the attack were a group of Facebook and Instagram spammers ...
Unfriend: Thai junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha receives social media pummelling
An onslaught of negative feedback flooded the official Facebook page of Thailand's premier Prayuth Chan-ocha a day after it was launched over the weekend, backfiring on the junta leader's attempts to get "suggestions" on the social media platform. As Thailand counts down to much-anticipated elections ...
Facebook says 'view as' data breach affected 29 million users; Japan launches probe
Cyberattackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook announced on Friday, as the social media company said its largest-ever data theft hit fewer than the 50 million profiles it initially reported. The ...
Facebook said it has purged more than 800 U.S. pages and accounts for spamming users with politically tinged garbage links and clickbait just weeks ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The banned accounts and Facebook sites exhibited "coordinated inauthentic behavior" such as working together to ...
Irish regulator opens Facebook data breach probe after hackers tapped into 50 million accounts
Ireland's data regulator has launched an investigation into Facebook over a recent data breach that allowed hackers access to 50 million accounts. The probe could potentially cost Facebook more than $1.6 billion in fines. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Wednesday that it will look into ...
Facebook says hackers did not use stolen logins on third-party sites
Facebook Inc. said on Tuesday that investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use the social networking site's single sign-on in a massive cyberattack that the company disclosed last week. "We analyzed third-party access during the time of the attack we ...
Facebook says 50 million user accounts affected by security breach
Facebook has reported a major security breach in which 50 million user accounts were accessed by unknown attackers. The attackers gained the ability to "seize control" of those accounts, Facebook said, by stealing digital keys it uses to keep people logged in. Facebook has logged ...
Facebook on Thursday confirmed that advertisers were privy to phone numbers given by members of the social network for enhanced security. A study by two U.S. universities, first reported by news website Gizmodo, found that phone numbers given to Facebook for two-factor authentication were also ...
Facebook boosts 'stories' format, adds ads in challenge to Snapchat
Facebook said Wednesday it now has 300 million daily users of "stories," a format inspired by Snapchat, and would now begin delivering ads with these visual messages. The announcement shows Facebook is making strides in this new format, which allows people to share videos or ...
Google, Facebook and Twitter agree to code of conduct to fight fake news in EU
Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and other tech and advertising companies have committed to implementing new measures and investing in new technologies to fight the spread of hoax news online in Europe, according to a draft of the agreement. The group, an ad-hoc ...
Instagram founders depart Facebook after clashes with Zuckerberg
The founders of Instagram are leaving Facebook Inc. after growing tensions with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the direction of the product, sources said. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who have been at the company since Instagram's acquisition by Facebook in 2012, were frustrated with an ...
