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Tag Archives: Facebook
Zuckerberg announces to end fact-checking posts on Facebook and Instagram
[German]Facebook founder and Meta CEO Marc Zuckerberg has announced a major change of direction regarding user posts on the Facebook and Instagram platforms. Cooperation with fact-checkers in the USA is to be abolished and the company intends to campaign for … Continue reading
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Facebook's moderation: Broken by design – how AI and community policy handling kick people
[German]Facebook recently changed its strategy regarding policy violations. With a lot of prose, users are supposed to be "educated" on policy violations in order to avoid such things – this is supposed to prevent the previous "blocks". Since "Facebook is … Continue reading
After Facebook glitch (March 5, 2024): Have you been able to log in to other people's accounts?
[German]Follow-up to this week's Facebook disruption, where users were forcibly logged out and could only log back in after a few hours. A reader has contacted me and reported that he was able to log in to Facebook under a … Continue reading
Irish DPC fines Meta/Facebook €265 million after data privacy incident
[German]The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a 265 million fine on Meta, Facebook's parent company. This follows a data protection incident in which millions of Facebook users' data was pulled from the company's systems via tools until September … Continue reading
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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
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Mark Zuckerberg announces layoffs of 11,000 employees
[German]Now it's official, shortly after the US midterm elections, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook's parent, Meta, announces mass layoffs. The company, which operates Facebook, Instagram and WhtsApp, plans to lay off 11,000 employees. That's an estimated 13 percent of … Continue reading
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Meta finds over 400 mobile apps stealing Facebook credentials in 2022
[German]Facebook parent company Meta said that it's security researcher has already identified more than 400 malicious mobile apps this year that are out to steal their users' Facebook credentials. The problem could affect 1 million Facebook users who have installed … Continue reading
Meta Vice President "Throws out the underperformers"
[German]Maher Saba is vice president of remote presence and engineering at Facebook parent company Meta, a top management position after Marc Zuckerberg. In a message to managers of the company, he instructed them to look for "underperformers" and kick them … Continue reading
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Facestealer Trojan from Google Play Store app 'Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools' steals Facebook credentials
[German]Security researchers from Pradeo have discovered an Android app Craftsart Cartoon Photo Tools in the Google Play Store. It is infected with the well-known Facestealer Trojan and 100,000 people have downloaded the app onto their devices. The Trojan steals Facebook … Continue reading
Facebook: Stock went down, and now exit threat in Europe? (Feb. 2022)
[German]Dark clouds over the horizon for Facebook and its users? Or joyful news for Internet users? Since Facebook (lately they call themselves Meta, but I'm still using Facebook here in the article) presented the last quarterly report, the stock has … Continue reading