The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook are dealing with waves of content about ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug that has picked up traction among anti-vaxxers as a COVID-19 treatment. The #ivermectin tag is still up, though many of the most popular videos in the tag are of healthcare professionals debunking misinformation.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 Chicago attorney Jay Edelson sued Facebook in Cook County Circuit Court back in 2015, alleging that the platform’s use of facial recognition tagging was not allowed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Facebook is adding co-streaming to Facebook Gaming, a useful feature the Twitch competitor has lacked since it launched in 2018. Additionally, while Twitch’s version of a co-streaming feature — “Squad Stream” — requires you to be a Twitch Partner, Facebook is making co-streaming available to everyone.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Facebook is apologizing for applying a “primates” label to a video of Black men | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook is apologizing for an incident where its AI mislabeled a video of Black men with a “primates” label, calling it an “unacceptable error” that it was examining to prevent it from happening again.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 14, 2022

Capitol turned to Facebook and Telegram groups to plan their part in the attack, the Oath Keepers—a far-right org that’s best described as somewhere between a militia and a rag-tag group of wannabe vigilantes —are alleged to be bigger fans of the… Read more. While many of the groups that took part in last year’s siege on the U.S.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

When Facebook users tried to view a hashtag calling for the resignation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, they instead saw a message saying that Facebook was temporarily hiding the posts in order to keep the community safe. Many of the Facebook posts with the ResignModi hashtag include references to the coronavirus.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Facebook bet big on connecting people via video with the original Portal smart display , and the company is back with two new Portals : a bigger Portal+ for large group calls and a battery-powered Portal Go that can tag along as you move about the house. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Businesses and creators will be able to tag products when they create Reels, and viewers can tap through those tags to buy or save them. A branded content tag is also available for influencers who are paid for their posts. Shopping is important to Instagram, and Facebook more broadly, as it looks to diversify its revenue.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2021

Photo: Facebook. Facebook has added Zoom and GoToMeeting support to its Portal TV product , so you can fully embrace the work-from-home lifestyle and take meetings from your living room couch. Facebook has been slowly building out the feature set of its Portal family of video chat devices.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook has removed a series of pages linked to former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. The pages were removed after nonprofit organization Avaaz flagged them as spreading — and artificially amplifying — election-related misinformation under the “Stop The Steal” tag. Facebook also removed a copy of the video.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

.’ The top results consistently included highly-ranked and favorably-tagged books based on falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and cures.” Why do books with COVID-19 misinformation receive “Best Seller” tags from Amazon? ” In July, Amazon launched its own home vaccine kit.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

That latest WhatsApp update brings improved wallpapers and sticker search to the Facebook-owned app used by over 2 billion people. Image: Facebook. Watch your chat wallpaper automatically transition as your phone device setting switches from light to dark mode,” says Facebook. New wallpapers with dark mode support.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In posts on Twitter and Facebook on Saturday, WSDA showed off one particularly large “murder hornet” as well as a cut-open tree trunk containing a portion of the insects’ nest. WSDA trapped and tagged hornets last week and used the radio technology to track at least one to the nest which was eradicated on Saturday.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Image: Facebook. Facebook is making a major new push into e-commerce. The company today announced the launch of Shops, a way for businesses to set up free storefronts on Facebook and Instagram. Image: Facebook. Image: Facebook. Facebook is also working to integrate loyalty programs with shops.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram. This means more creators and brands will be able to issue takedown requests over re-uploaded videos and images they own across both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook only launched support for claiming copyrighted images in September.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2021

Vijaye Raji , the former Facebook and Microsoft engineering leader, has raised $10.4 That process, along with other tools at Facebook that allowed engineers to quickly run experiments on what features to implement, inspired Statsig. The company’s tag line says a lot about the focus: Build now. Statsig Photo). Measure Fast.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I wonder whether Nvidia should have changed its name to Meta rather than letting Facebook steal that tag. It’s gone from changing engineering and gaming to being the foundation for the coming metaverse.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2021

Facebook is introducing a new feature called “Group Experts” today, which will allow admins to designate which members are highly knowledgeable about the group’s topic. Image: Facebook. Image: Facebook. So while the “expert” tag designates the trust of admins, it doesn’t objectively qualify someone as a real expert.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Facebook and TikTok have blocked hashtags that were being used to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories about the presidential election. Other tweets have been tagged with a message encouraging readers to learn more about election security efforts. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Verge

JUNE 19, 2020

Facebook has removed a manipulated video posted on President Trump’s account after receiving a copyright complaint from the rights owners. The video was created by Carpe Donktum, a prolific pro-Trump meme creator who the president has amplified in the past, and uploaded to both Facebook and Twitter. Alex Wong/Getty Images.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up. To claim their copyright, the image rights holder uploads a CSV file to Facebook’s Rights Manager that contains all the image’s metadata. If they then want to appeal that decision, they can use Facebook’s IP reporting forms.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. We have to realize that every ‘like’ we make on Facebook and heart we tap on Instagram can be aggregated together to paint a fairly clear picture of who we are and what we are into. Don’t tag images.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 2, 2020

Facebook won’t remove the president’s lies and threat to shoot people. Today, the company announced the upcoming “Manage Activity” feature which makes it easier to mass delete old posts and select them by date range and tagged people.… BUT: maybe you would like a content management tool? Shhhhh don’t look over there. Read more.

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Vox

JUNE 17, 2020

Amid ongoing protests against police brutality and racism, a new campaign from organizations including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League is urging advertisers to pull their spending on Facebook ads for July, emphasizing the platform’s repeated failure to curb hateful and false content.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Image: Facebook. Facebook is introducing a handful of new features that will give users greater control over their News Feed, including an easier way to turn off the feed’s algorithmic ranking and display content in the order it was posted instead. You can see what that looks like in the screenshots below: Image: Facebook.

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GeekWire

MARCH 6, 2024

Tech commentator, podcast host, veteran journalist, and entrepreneur Kara Swisher discusses her new book, “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” March 5, 2024, at Town Hall in Seattle with Alex Stamos, former Facebook and Yahoo chief security officer. I’ll be honest—most of you are not.”

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on Facebook users’ public videos. The resulting machine learning models will be used to create new content recommendation systems and moderation tools, says Facebook, but could do so much more in the future.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Facebook is launching what it’s calling a “universal product recognition model” that uses artificial intelligence to identify consumer goods, from furniture to fast fashion to fast cars. Facebook wants to create a “social-first” shopping experience. Image: Facebook. Image: Facebook. It’s a grand vision.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

They couldn’t click the tag on one of their own posts and trying to search for intersex pulled up a “null” page. This was the second time Pagonis noticed the tag disappearing, and they worried that TikTok had banned it just as they were about to start a series of celebratory videos called Intersex Joy. “My

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A labyrinth of Facebook groups and right-wing media After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. The group was also a major initial supporter of the GoFundMe page, with users sharing it on the very first day the Facebook page was launched.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

The company’s also now giving people more control over who can tag or mention them in a post. People can select whether they want everyone, only people they follow, or no one to be able to tag or mention them in a comment, caption, or story. Most of the content was reported by users, not proactively discovered by Facebook.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In one of the first articles published on the freshly launched site, about a Seattle startup developing high-tech pet tags , the comments included a question about the accessibility of QR codes, insights about the design from the startup’s founder, and an (accurate) accusation that GeekWire’s John Cook is biased toward dogs.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Trade Commission joined with 48 state attorneys general to call for a court-ordered divestiture of Instagram and WhatsApp — essentially, forcing Facebook to undo both acquisitions and spin them back into independent companies. Instagram has a chance to leave Facebook behind.

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Spearline Testing

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The group’s Facebook page is full of screenshots indicating that its members are responsible for the various copyright takedowns. Fans across Twitter have sprung to action, aggressively reporting the page to Facebook, tagging Twitter support in comments, and flooding Bangladesh’s minister of state for foreign affairs with tweets.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On Tuesday, the McAulliffe campaign launched a series of Facebook, Instagram, and Google search ads highlighting his opponent Glenn Youngkin’s role in the controversial purchase of Taylor Swift’s master recordings in 2019. They will also place ads in Google search results for Virginians that search for her name.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

will enable use of AirTag trackers to help locate tagged items using Apple’s Find My feature. The feature was announced last year and met with sharp resistance from Facebook in particular, which argues that the move will harm small businesses that benefit from ad tracking. Image: Apple.

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