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Facebook is a popular online social network. Its main founder is Mark Zuckerberg
launched the service in 2004 with his fellow Harvard students.
- There and back again: RT looks at Facebook eyeing humans for ‘fake news’ check
After getting rid of its news trending team and switching to algorithms to combat fake news, Facebook seems to be back on track at hiring human news-checkers. RT looks at the twists and turns of social media giant.US News - Facebook says software bug made 14mn users’ private posts public
Facebook has revealed that up to 14 million of its users had their privacy settings accidentally changed by a software bug – causing some posts that were intended to be private to be made public.World News - Facebook hands users’ friends’ data to dozens of ‘partners’ without consent – report
At least 60 different firms – including Apple and Microsoft – have data-sharing partnerships with Facebook, which gave them access to user data without explicit consent, according to a New York Times investigation.US News - Tory MP with alleged history of Islamophobia found to have been a member of racist Facebook groups
Bob Blackman, Tory MP for Harrow East, who has repeatedly been accused of endorsing Islamophobia, has now been found to have been a member of several racist Facebook groups, according to Vice News.UK News - Facebook accused of ‘tricking’ users into signing privacy agreement
The evil geniuses at Facebook are camouflaging consent provisions and manipulating users into hastily accepting their tracking terms by showing them fake notifications, a new lawsuit says.World News - How much: Facebook user puts personal data up for sale to highest bidder
An entrepreneurial Facebook user who tried to cash in on his own data, by putting it up for auction on Ebay, appears to have had his pioneering plan stopped in its tracks.World News
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