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Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician
Instagram’s expanding its fact-checking program but, like Facebook, says it won’t keep political speech away from “public debate and scrutiny.”
Alleged bank vault robber posed with cash on Instagram, Facebook
He allegedly stole over $88,000 from Wells Fargo’s vault, then posed with cash and “his” Mercedes-Benz in posts and an Instagram rap.
Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab
Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee’s car.
Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data
If you’re logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide “relevant content, including ads.”
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.
DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot
He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.
Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts
Facebook says the company used celeb bait links to infect victims with malware and hijacked their ad accounts to sell diet pills.
Instagram trying to protect kids by getting dates of birth from new users
It’s about showing age-appropriate content, it said. Though staying safe from child-privacy lawsuits doesn’t hurt, either.