Facebook Inc. pulled tens of millions of user posts that violated its terms of service in the past six months, according to its biannual transparency report on Wednesday. This has become a customary company announcement, just like a quarterly earnings report. What is new is the addition of data fromRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Instagram application is seen on a phone screen (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (O:) released its fourth report on enforcement against content that violates its policies on Wednesday, adding data on photo-sharing app Instagram and content depicting suicide or self-harm for the first time. Pro-active detectionRead More →
If only Wayne Rooney had been as effective as captain of England’s long-suffering national soccer team as his wife has proven to be as an internet sleuth. In what one appreciative fan dubbed worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting, Coleen Rooney used a cunning social-media trap to determineRead More →
The boss of L’Oréal, the world’s largest beauty company, has admitted in an interview with MarketWatch that pollution is good for business. Jean-Paul Agon, chief executive and chairman of the parent company behind the Maybelline, Garnier and Lancôme brands, also said millennials are buying more cosmetics to try to replicateRead More →
Facebook Inc. said Thursday that a security incident that exposed Instagram passwords internally was significantly worse than first thought. After announcing in March that a security review had found that “tens of thousands” of Instagram users’ passwords had been wrongly stored in plain text, Pedro Canahuati, Facebook’s vice president ofRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of mobile users are seen next to a screen projection of the Facebook logo in this picture illustration (Reuters) – Facebook (NASDAQ:) Inc’s social networking site, photo-sharing social network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp were inaccessible to some users on Sunday, downdetector.com, which monitors outages,Read More →
