The Facebook-owned platform Instagram has long been the main tool influencers have used to carve out a career online. Many parents even use it to promote their children’s modeling careers when the kids are too young to join the platform themselves. However, there is a dark and dangerous underbelly to this practice that was exposed…
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Hackers are always searching for ways to compromise users’ Facebook accounts, and it seems like they’ve found an alarming new shortcut. According to multiple reports this week, a Vietnamese hacking ring has figured out how to create fake Oculus VR profiles and link them to real Facebook accounts. While this account linking is easily accomplished…
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Ever since the controversial 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has been heavily criticized for not doing enough to stop the spread of damaging political misinformation. While the company has introduced new measures in the intervening years to crack down on these bad actors, there was still undoubtedly room for improvement. And this week, the social…
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Over the past year, dozens of US states have brought devastating lawsuits against Facebook, claiming that the company has intentionally created addictive products and ignored concerns about potential risks to the mental health of young users. And this week, New York City got in on the act, suing Facebook and several other tech giants and…
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Facebook is unfortunately no stranger to data breaches, and it seems like a big one may have victimized Facebook Marketplace users this week. According to multiple reports, a threat actor called IntelBroker leaked 200,000 Facebook Marketplace user records on a hacker forum this week, including users’ names, phone numbers, email addresses, Facebook IDs, and other…
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Facebook loves to tout its security measures, but many vulnerabilities still exist in the company’s systems. For example, privacy researcher Alexander Hanff wrote this week about how easy it is to gain access to someone’s account if you’re given their old phone number by a telecom company. This kind of phone number recycling is extremely…
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Facebook has a notoriously hard time moderating content around sensitive religious and political issues, and the ongoing war in the Middle East has brought the issue into sharper focus than ever. And no matter what the company does, it’s bound to enrage a huge amount of people. For example, The Intercept reported this week that…
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Earlier this week, Facebook’s own Oversight Board blasted the company for its confusing policies on deepfakes and other misleading content. Now, just a few days later, the company has responded with a big policy change, promising to label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. According to Facebook, it has been working to develop watermarks…
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As the 2024 US presidential election looms on the horizon, attention is once again being paid to Facebook and its handling of misinformation. The first stress test of the company’s policies was applied this week by the Facebook Oversight Board, which examined the case of a heavily manipulated video of Joe Biden that painted him…
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This week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a Senate committee to address child sexual exploitation on his platforms. And in a stunning moment, he was compelled to stand, face the audience, and apologize to victims of this exploitation who were in the room. This move took many Facebook observers by surprise —…
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