Worried about Alibaba’s impact on public opinion, Beijing wants the company to sell some of its media assets. The Alibaba Group is in talks with a Chinese state conglomerate for a possible sale of its Weibo shares. Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that the e-commerce giant is exploring the possibility of...
Ultra-right activists have tried to use the new social media policy to remove photos of themselves. Twitter has mistakenly blocked a number of accounts after far-right extremists began using the platform’s new policy on private photos and videos. We will remind, earlier Twitter revised its policy on privacy, banning the...
The move is part of a massive expansion of Facebook Protect’s enhanced security program. Facebook social network administration intends make two-factor authentication (2FA) mandatory for accounts at high risk of being compromised by hackers. The move is part of a massive expansion of Facebook Protect, a security-enhancing program designed to...
The social network Facebook will keep the name. Facebook company changed name in Meta. The rebranding is due to the company’s desire to distance itself from criticism and numerous scandals around the social network Facebook related to accusations of unethical use of algorithms, incitement to hatred of profit, data leaks,...
American businessman Mark Zuckerberg has denounced a series of investigations called “The Facebook Dossier” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to accusations against his company from the world’s leading media. According to him, the social network is doing everything it can to get better. The company has a massive renovation plan...
The service developers used the open source code of the Mastodon decentralized social network in violation of the license agreement. The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a not-for-profit organization that enforces the rights of open source software developers and the rules for using open licenses, accused in violation of the AGPLv3...
A few hours after the launch was announced, the attackers created an account on behalf of Trump and posted obscene notes to the address of the founder of another social network. The social network of ex-US President Donald Trump Truth Social, the creation of which he announced the day before,...
The company decided to take such a step in connection with complaints from scientists and journalists about the blocking of their profiles in China. Microsoft announced on the closure of the localized version of LinkedIn for Chinese users, launched in 2014. The company decided to take this step in connection...
In order to prove that its algorithms are working as expected, the company is ready to submit them for verification. Facebook is ready to provide supervisory authorities with their algorithms for verification in order to prove that they work as expected and do not harm users. This was announced by...
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, assessed the impact of the global disruption of social networks on the messenger. Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated that 70 million new users appeared in the messenger against the background of global disruptions in the work of social networks on October 4. “Yesterday, Telegram...
Facebook is so committed to product optimization that it uses its algorithms to incite hate. Informant Frances Haugen revealed to CBS News about the internal mechanisms of the social network Facebook. According to Haugen, Facebook is so committed to product optimization that it uses algorithms to incite hate. The woman...
The head of the social network, Adam Mosseri, said one hundred social networks, like machines, “create more value for the world than they destroy.” In response to several critical articles by Wall Street Journal reporters about the dangers of Instagram to minors, the head of the social network, Adam Mosseri,...
