Facebook has just eliminated several disinformation campaigns related to Russia and Iran. On Tuesday, the social network announced that it had eliminated 2,632 Facebook pages, groups and accounts that “engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on both Facebook and Instagram. The …
WhatsApp is on the offensive. On Wednesday in New Delhi, WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, held a press conference to share how it is addressing false accounts and the dissemination of misinformation on its platform of 1.5 billion users. The conference …
WhatsApp continues to intensify the fight against Fake news, this time by setting its sights on visual misinformation. The Facebook-owned messaging application is currently testing a new “search image” feature that allows users to easily upload an image that is …
Twitter may soon begin to open more on some of its most controversial decisions. The company’s security team wants to start publishing public “case studies” explaining Twitter’s decisions to ban or suspend high-profile accounts, said Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s trusted security …
Facebook is fed up and tired of your trash content, and by the way, it’s finally going to do something about it. In a blog post on January 23, Mark Zuckerberg’s advertising giant announced two upcoming changes to the service …
It turns out that, at one point, Facebook considered selling its users’ data. Now we know this not because Facebook executives felt a sudden need for transparency, but because of a flawed PDF that was not correctly worded. That error, …
Fasten the children. Instagram is about to become even more classic. The application added a new feature of “close friends” that will allow you to publish Stories that can only be seen in a select group of your followers. What …
A strange Facebook problem has seen users confronted with the past. People have reported a strange error in which old chat messages, some from years ago, appear again through the Messenger tabs. The problem is particularly worrisome for certain users …