From Wall Street to Main Street to Capitol Hill, everyone is mad at Facebook. The company has been under fire since a trove of leaked internal documents shed light on its struggles to prevent real-world harm, from political unrest to teen suicides. Everyone has something to say about Facebook, and almost none of it is good. So now Mark Zuckerberg would like you to talk about something else.
Speaking to Axios, Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher has revealed that the firm plans to roll out support for hardware keys which people can use to increase the security of their Facebook account. Gleicher said that the firm is looking at sending security keys to public figures and that other users will be able to buy the tokens from retailers in-person and online and register them with their Facebook account.
In a lawsuit filed today, Facebook alleges that a Chinese company used malware to compromise user accounts to run deceptive ads on the social media platform.
The end goal of compromising Facebook accounts was distribution of deceptive ads for counterfeit goods and diet pills.
Privacy has been a renewed focus with Apple’s next operating system update. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could have sweeping consequences for messaging and online call apps.
Mark Zuckerberg is countering calls to break up Facebook, saying that doing so would only diminish his company's billion-dollar attempts to fix the social network.
"The amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems I believe is greater than Twitter's revenue for this whole year," Zuckerberg told journalists on a press call on Thursday.
Facebook is considering raising as much as a billion dollars for a new cryptocurrency-based payment network that could compete directly with conventional credit cards, The Wall Street Journal reports. We've previously covered reports that Facebook-owned Whatsapp was developing a cryptocurrency product, but the company is also reportedly creating a cryptocurrency for Facebook itself.
Facebook has mined a lot of data about its users over the years—relationships, political leanings, and even phone call logs. And now it appears Facebook may have inadvertently extracted another bit of critical information: users' login credentials, stored unencrypted on Facebook's servers and accessible to Facebook employees.
Following more than two years of constant turbulence for Facebook, the company’s vice president of communications, Caryn Marooney, is leaving the company, Facebook has confirmed. Marooney, who previously cofounded the technology communications firm The Outcast Agency, joined Facebook in 2011 as director of technology communications, after representing the company at Outcast. Most recently, she has been responsible for all global communications. Marooney's final day is not yet set, but spokesperson Vanessa Chan said she would be staying on to bring her replacement on board.
On Tuesday evening, The New York Times revealed more startling news about Facebook: the company "gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules.”
Facebook is letting some people Unsend their messenges, but you may not have access to the feature just yet.
The Remove feature rolled out in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia and Lithuania Thursday on Messenger for iOS and Android, according to TechCrunch, which explained how the new feature works.
We already knew you'd be able to delete sent messages within 10 minutes, but TechCrunch revealed that it'd leave a marker so people would know where the message had been.
