LAS VEGAS—In one of the more perplexing announcements at CES, Facebook’s Hugo Barra said at the Qualcomm press conference that the upcoming standalone Oculus Go VR headset will run a Snapdragon 821, a two-year-old mobile chipset last seen in the LG G6.
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ProPublica is picking on Facebook’s ad-targeting system again, but Facebook says the age filters are appropriate. The report names a number of companies that took out job ads on Facebook that were targeted to specific age groups.
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The creator of Facebook’s Like button creator doesn’t “like” it much anymore.
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Facebook’s internet-beaming drone suffered a crash landing at the end of its debut outing last year. However, the team has clearly improved its design, on Thursday reporting a successful test flight and landing.
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For two hours, Naika Venant spoke about her troubles on Facebook’s live streaming service before the 14-year-old girl used a headscarf to hang herself from a shower rod inside a Miami foster home.
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Oculus sales are lagging behind both the HTC Vive and the Sony VR. Facebook’s solution? A whopping 25% price cut.
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Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, has reportedly made a sizable donation to the organization.
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Facebook’s Safety Check feature has been erroneously triggered in Bangkok by a wave of false social media reports about a bomb explosion that didn’t happen.
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Facebook’s content removal policies, including its confounding guidelines on hate speech, have been detailed in alleged internal documents leaked in a new report by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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There’s an argument that it’s not Facebook’s job to fact-check the growing flood of fake news coming at us through its portal. After all, Facebook is just a set of pipes delivering something and is not responsible for the content. Nebulous others have that responsibility. However, Facebook is in the business of delivering content to a wide variety of people for a multitude of reasons. Businesses have an expectation that Facebook will deliver to them readers with a potential for making purchases or otherwise engaging with brands.
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An accident involving Facebook’s internet-serving Aquila drone is being investigated by U.S. aviation safety agency the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Facebook previously touted the drone’s first test flight as a success.
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Facebook’s Alex Stamos has said that the firm has been buying stolen passwords from the black market to secure user accounts, an outside-the-box move that keeps the social network relatively scandal-free when it comes to security.
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Facebook’s struggles with ‘fake news’ underscore the urgent need for a new social media legal framework, experts warn.
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Facebook’s recently automated Trending feed has made another blunder, this time showing users a fake news article about the September 11 attacks. The mishap comes just weeks after it published two unsuitable articles in quick succession.
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Facebook’s war on clickbait rages on.
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Tucked away on the first floor of Facebook’s sprawling Menlo Park campus is a highly secure, pristine room filled with expensive and potentially dangerous equipment.
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Facebook diversity exec blames applicant “pipeline” on Facebook’s diversity problem, highlighted in the company’s recent diversity report. Data shows that pipeline is not this issue, and critics say that Facebook needs to take a hard look at its hiring practices.
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This week I went to a meeting at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. And then I became a bimbo, a cancer, and a scumbag. Behold Twitter:
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The organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have slammed Facebook’s investigation into allegations of political bias related to its Trending Topics section – saying there are still unanswered questions about the handling of stories from CPAC 2016.
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It’s not the first time and it’s likely not going to be the last, but Facebook’s WhatsApp has been banned in Brazil again for failing to turn over data in a criminal investigation.
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