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U.S. Senators Grill Facebook Over Election Ads
November 01, 2017

U.S. senators grilled Facebook’s chief lawyer this week on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian money, and why its investigation took so long. According to a Reuters news report, Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing questioned...

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Facebook: Too Big To Govern?
October 30, 2017

In December of 2008, Lindsay Ronson tried to log into her Facebook account with a new password — one she had recently created after experiencing, she said, numerous attempts to hack her account. She was presented with a message telling her that her account had been...

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Facebook Gets Into The Used Car Sales Business
October 27, 2017

Facebook announced news on Thursday (Oct. 26) that it is expanding the number of cars for sale users can view via its Marketplace, teaming up with leaders in the auto industry. In a blog post, Deborah Liu, Facebook VP of Marketplace, said that millions of...

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The Many Faces Of Facebook
October 18, 2017

Facebook’s latest moves appeal to teens, professionals and hungry users. It has recently integrated with food ordering and delivery platforms, taken on LinkedIn with a new resume feature and snapped up the viral, anonymous complimenting app tbh to appeal to teenagers (tbh, that one probably...

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Facebook Launches ‘Order Food’ Option
October 16, 2017

Facebook has officially announced a new feature allowing its U.S. users to order food from local restaurants through the Facebook app. According to TechCrunch, the social media giant has decided not to compete directly with other food ordering services. Instead, Facebook is partnering with several...

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Facebook Tracker: East, West And Everything In Between
October 11, 2017

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. and old ones growing larger to accommodate its swelling workforce ranks. Here...

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Facebook Tracker: Squeezed Out In Russia, China
October 04, 2017

With a now-total ban on WhatsApp, China has finally ousted Facebook for good, and Russia is threatening to do the same if the social media platform does not abide by its government’s rules (ironic, as Russia reached at least 10 million American Facebook users with...

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Facebook Tests Face ID
October 02, 2017

Facebook is testing out its own version of Apple’s Face ID as a way to verify users’ identities so they can regain access to their accounts. According to Tech Crunch, this new technology will be useful if a user is somewhere in which he or...

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Russia Threatens To Block Facebook Next Year If It Doesn’t Comply
September 27, 2017

Facebook faces orders from the Russian Federation to comply with an internet regulation law that orders the company to store Russians’ personal data on Russian servers. If Facebook does not comply, the Russian government will block the social media website next year. According to a...