Facebook has published two slide decks detailing its research into the effects of Instagram on teenage mental health. The slides were frequently quoted by the Wall Street Journal earlier this month in a story that reported that the company’s own researchers found that “Instagram is harmful to a sizable percentage of teenagers, especially teenage girls.” … Read more
When Facebook released its first quarterly report this week of the most viewed posts in the United States, Guy Rosen, its vice president for integrity, said the social network had taken “a long journey” to be “by far the most transparent platform in the world” on the Internet “The list showed that the posts with … Read more
Back in March, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) released a report that linked more than two-thirds of online vaccine misinformation to 12 people. That statistic has since been cited widely, including by lawmakers and government officials, as evidence that Facebook has failed to control lies about COVID-19 vaccines. Now, five months later, Facebook … Read more
David Marcus sagte 2019 vor dem Kongress über die Kryptowährungspläne von Facebook aus.Kredit…Erik S Lesser/EPA, über Shutterstock Facebooks Mission ist es, „die Welt näher zusammenzubringen“. Dabei geht es zunehmend nicht nur darum, Freunde und Familie zu verbinden, um Nachrichten auszutauschen, sondern auch als Plattform für das finanzielle Leben der Menschen zu dienen. Laut David Marcus, … Read more
Last month, Facebook’s board of directors reprimanded the company for losing a key policy for three years. At the center of the verdict was an Instagram post about Abdullah Öcalan calling for people to speak about his political imprisonment. Öcalan is a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The PKK is a Kurdish militia … Read more
Facebook has always been considerate of its users and has found that its privacy settings need to be messed up a bit to make things clear and easy to find. To do this, they took the “privacy settings” and mischievously scattered them among the other categories. “We have redesigned our entire settings menu on mobile … Read more
Facebook will require its employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus before they can return to their headquarters in Menlo Park and other offices in the United States. “When our offices reopen, we will require a vaccination from anyone who comes to work at any of our US locations,” said Lori Goler, Facebook vice president … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
Facebook says it will update its community standards to clarify how it deals with satirical content based on the recommendations of the oversight board. The change goes back to a case involving a user posting a meme satirizing “the Turkish government’s efforts to deny the Armenian genocide.” Facebook originally removed the post citing its anti-hate … Read more
Big Box VR co-founders Chia Chin Lee (left) and Gabe Brown. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The Seattle startup BigBox VR, the company behind the multiplayer virtual reality game POPULATION: ONE, was taken over by Facebook. Facebook was attracted to BigBox due to the popularity of POP: ONE, which has been one of the top … Read more