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Facebook reveals more changes to News Feed in attempt to tackle bad content
Facebook has introduced a quality measurement tool to track content posted to its News Feed in its latest attempt to cut down on removing bad content from its platform. A tool which gives more information about publishers and why their content is appearing on a user’s News Feed is also being extended to images, the…
Facebook to use AI to help honour deceased loved ones
Facebook is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent the profiles of deceased friends and family being promoted on the site in painful ways, such as in reminders about their birthday. The social network has confirmed it will also introduce a new Tributes section for memorialised accounts, which will enable friends and family to share…
How will an online safety regulator work?
Plans for new laws making tech giants and social networks more accountable for harmful content online have been set out by the Government, in a bid to make the UK one of the safest places in the world to be online. Here is everything you need to know about the long-awaited white paper: Will there…
Government unveils ‘world’s first’ internet safety laws
The Government will introduce “world first” internet safety laws designed to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online, new proposals published today (8th April 2019) claim. A white paper on online harms, published jointly by the Departments for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Home Office, proposes strict…
Iran ‘launched cyber attack on UK before Christmas’
Iran has been accused of launching a number of cyber attacks on the Post Office and the UK’s local government networks in the lead-up to Christmas, it has been reported. According to Sky News, the attacks took place on December 23, with more than 10,000 pieces of data records stolen, such as email addresses, postal…
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg meets with senior politicians in Dublin
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is discussing the regulation of social media with senior politicians in Dublin. He arrived at the Merrion Hotel in the city on Tuesday afternoon where he is meeting Hildegarde Naughton, James Lawless and Eamon Ryan, three members of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News. He also visited the technology giant’s offices in…
Facebook to explain how mysterious news feed algorithms work
Facebook is to begin explaining to users why they are seeing certain posts on their news feed in an attempt to make the platform easier to understand. The social network has announced it is to start offering users a “why am I seeing this post?” tab, which they can click on to see how Facebook’s…
Facebook moves to ban white nationalist hate speech
Content related to white nationalism and separatism will now be banned by Facebook, as the social network broadens its definition of hate speech following the mosque attack in New Zealand and pressure from civil rights groups. White supremacy has long been banned by the company, but it had held back from restricting white nationalism and…
Facebook finds millions of user passwords stored in plain text
Facebook is alerting hundreds of millions of users that it stored their passwords in a plain text, putting the security of many accounts at risk. Passwords are usually masked in an unreadable format but the social network has admitted hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users and tens…
‘No Facebook users reported Christchurch massacre during livestreaming’
No-one reported the video of the Christchurch terror attack while it was being streamed live, Facebook claims. It was 29 minutes after the video had started – and 12 minutes after it had ended – before the first user flagged up the footage, the social media giant said. The company earlier revealed that it had…
