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Yesterday Facebook started testing a new way to combat “hate speech” on their platform and I wrote a post explaining why I think it’s a very bad idea.
Some folks believed the strange “Does this post contain hate speech?” question that was displayed on every post in some users’ newsfeeds was simply a glitch and not something that Facebook was really testing.
Well, it was indeed a real test, but it was apparently rolled out prematurely and it quickly went off the rails. [Read more…]
As you surely already know, the opinions and attitudes of Facebook users vary widely.
After all, with 1.5 billion users there are going to be people expressing opinions that don’t exactly match with those of other users.
Unfortunately, some of the views expressed in the posts, memes and videos can be quite offensive to some users.
But at what point does a post cross the line into what is commonly referred to nowadays as “hate speech”?
Well, Facebook has come up with a plan to find out, and they want you to help!
Starting today, some users are now seeing this question on every post that shows up in their newsfeed: [Read more…]
As a public company, Facebook is required to submit a current financial report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) once every 90 days.
Each of those quarterly reports are required to include anything that could possibly affect the value of the company’s stock in a negative way.
Well, Facebook’s most recent quarterly report is warning investors that they’re expecting to discover additional data breaches similar to the Cambridge Analytica breach that’s been all over the news of late. [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Facebook is currently under fire for a serious data breach with a firm called Cambridge Analytica.
In a nutshell, Cambridge Analytica used a malicious app to steal the personal information of millions of Facebook users during the last U.S. presidential election cycle.
Unfortunately, you could easily be one of them.
If you’re wondering if your own data was stolen by Cambridge Analytica, you can easily find out right now. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Modern smartphones and tablets make it easy to document the world around us by taking photos and capturing video with just a couple of taps on the screen.
We can then easily (and instantly) share those photos and videos with others by posting them on Facebook.
Well, the folks at Facebook have taken the ability to share our videos to an entirely new level with an awesome feature called Facebook Live.
In a nutshell, Facebook Live lets you record live audio and video of virtually any event in real time and share it on your Facebook Timeline so your Facebook friends can witness the event as it unfolds. [Read more…]