An automated Telegram bot is selling Facebook account phone numbers
It uses a database of 500 million user credentials and a Telegram bot
Facebook will let researchers study its election ad targeting data
'Understanding the online political advertising landscape is key to protecting elections.'
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Instagram adds ‘professional dashboard’ for businesses and creators
The dashboard is available to anyone with a business or creator account.
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Facebook inexplicably logs out iPhone users
It's not just you -- Facebook seemingly logged out everyone's iPhone on Friday night.
Democrats ask Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to rework their suggestion algorithms
They say those platforms helped radicalize the people who attacked the US Capitol.
Facebook's Oversight Board will review Trump's suspension
He'll remain locked out of Facebook and Instagram in the meantime.
Airbnb has been quietly using social media to root out and ban extremists
It's said to have banned more than 100 accounts with ties to hate groups.
Facebook improves AI photo descriptions for the visually impaired
New technology helps Facebook offer more detailed labels.
Signal recovers from a day-long service outage
An influx of WhatsApp users led it to buckle under demand.
Facebook and Google allegedly cut a deal that reduced ad competition
It hurts their chances of surviving antitrust cases.
Facebook temporarily bans ads for gun accessories and military gear
The pause will last through President-elect Biden's inauguration.
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Facebook blocks events around D.C. and state capitals ahead of inauguration
The new measures come amid fears of more violence ahead Joe Biden's inauguration.
WhatsApp postpones new privacy policy amid ‘confusion’
The messaging app has pushed back the Feb. 8 deadline after a bungled rollout.
Facebook and NYU trained an AI to estimate COVID outcomes
The machine learning model is as accurate as a human radiologist.
WhatsApp reassures users it can't read their messages
The move comes in the wake of criticism about its new privacy policy.