Facebook Is Testing AR Ads in News Feed By Leah Heilbrunn published 10 July 18 Facebook's new mobile ads will utilize augmented reality in an attempt to engage shoppers.
Facebook To Design Its Own Chips For Real-Time Content Filtering By Lucian Armasu published 25 May 18 Facebook announces plans to design its own machine learning processors that will allow it to take down content in real-time.
Facebook Deletes 500 Million Fake Accounts In Effort To Clean Up Network By Leah Heilbrunn published 15 May 18 A new community report details Facebook's efforts to remove spam and bots.
A Look Inside the Rig of VR/AR Art Director, Vladimir Ilic (aka VRHUMAN) By Joshua Simenhoff published 11 May 18 In the first of our Power User Profile series, we talk to a professional VR/AR developer about what hardware and software he uses to create 3D worlds.
Facebook Stops Playing Hide-And-Seek With Its Privacy Settings By Nathaniel Mott published 28 March 18
Facebook Teases Platform Changes After Data Privacy Troubles By Nathaniel Mott published 26 March 18 The company is addressing the Cambridge Analytica controversy by making changes to its platform and the way organizations use its data.
Facebook Will Share Info About Russian Political Ads With Congress By Nathaniel Mott published 22 September 17
Facebook Ties Political Ad Spending To Russian Groups By Nathaniel Mott published 7 September 17 Facebook revealed that roughly 470 accounts suspected to be of Russian origin spent $100,000 on ads from June 2015 to May 2017 in an effort to sway public opinion on hot button issues.
Facebook Uses AI To Fight Malicious Link 'Cloaking' By Nathaniel Mott published 9 August 17 These efforts are supposed to help the company make sure bad actors can't evade its reviewers' gazes to mislead or harm the billion-plus people who use its service.
Facebook Fined €110 Million For Misleading The European Commission By Lucian Armasu published 18 May 17
French Data Protection Authority Fines Facebook For Collecting Data Without Consent By Lucian Armasu published 16 May 17 France's data protection authority fined Facebook 150,000 euro over its massive collection of both user and non-user data, without their consent.
Google, Facebook Victims Of $100M Phishing Scam By Nathaniel Mott published 28 April 17 It's easier to con someone than to take whatever you want from them with brute force, and that's why someone was able to bilk roughly $100 million from Google and Facebook via email fraud.
Facebook Temporarily 'Bans' RT After Presumed Technical Failure By Nathaniel Mott published 19 January 17 Facebook temporarily banned the RT media outlet from posting images, videos, and links to articles on the social network as the result of what appears to have been a technical malfunction.
Facebook Live Expands With Browser Support, Analytics, And More By Nathaniel Mott published 12 January 17 Facebook Live received browser support, analytics, and other features meant to make its video-streaming platform more appealing to broadcasters.
EU Privacy Chiefs Investigate WhatsApp And Yahoo By Lucian Armasu published 28 October 16 Both WhatsApp and Yahoo receive official letters from European Union's group of privacy chiefs expressing concerns that the companies may not have acted in accordance with EU laws.
