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Facebook's court-like Oversight Board overturned several of the company's decisions to remove content in its first set of decisions since the independent body began hearing cases last fall.
Facebook is planning to offer newsletter tools for independent journalists and writers, The New York Times reports. These are thought to include features for helping writers build a following using the social network, curate their email lists, and manage their paid subscriptions.
(Reuters) - ViacomCBS Inc's top compliance official, Henry Moniz, is moving to Facebook Inc as the social media platform's first chief compliance officer, as Facebook faces scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers. "We are pleased to confirm that Henry Moniz will be joining Facebook to lead our strategy and execution of compliance matters in the U.S.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Facebook tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted authorities to possible enticement and molestation of a minor and led to an arrest, according to police. A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrest report shows Richard Wewer, 58, is facing charges of online solicitation of a minor and unlawful sexual activity with a minor.
A Texas police chief has reportedly resigned after being arrested and then placed on administrative leave amid social media accusations regarding his allegedly duplicitous personal life. "Chief of Police Jason Collier resigned his position effective immediately with the City of Stinnett," Durk Downs, the city manager, posted on the city's Facebook page on Thursday night.
Lately I've taken to joking to friends that the only terrorism I could support is blowing up Facebook's physical data centers, provided you could somehow do it without hurting anyone. I know, I know - casualties aren't the only way this destruction could harm people.
n response to the fascist riot at the US Capitol, Facebook engaged in a flurry of dangerous and misguided corporate authoritarianism. I, along with a number of other leftwing organizers, was deemed a threat to the inauguration of Joe Biden and placed on a restricted list that limited my ability to communicate with others.
All Betsy Kneepkens wanted was one picture, of her daughter Gianna, making a basket representing her 11th point scored Friday night in a game played by her Duluth Marshall Hilltoppers at Pine City. For Gianna, No. 11 would be the 3,000th point of her high school career, an accomplishment reached by only 20 other girls in Minnesota basketball history.
Yesterday was a big day-the day that the Facebook Oversight Board released its first decisions. The independent board, an experiment in platform governance set up by Facebook, handed down five rulings weighing in on the company's decision to remove various posts for violating Facebook's community guidelines. It may not be Marbury v.
Scores of Facebook users found themselves unexpectedly logged out of the social media app recently, causing confusion, with people frantically trying to remember their long-forgotten passwords. But while Facebook says the glitch was due to a system change, posts on well, Facebook, pointed to a more insidious reason: "Who got logged off Facebook last night?"
Facebook says it would welcome increased regulation by the Canadian government, including rules for what kind of content should - or should not - be allowed on social media platforms. In an interview with CBC News, Kevin Chan, global director and head of public policy for Facebook Canada, said Parliament should make clear what kinds of content aren't allowed.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Searching for the Trempealeau County Sheriff on Facebook will present two similar results, " The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office", the official page for the law enforcement agency, and " The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Dept. ", a parody page.
On January 22, 2021, Facebook AI released Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS), a new large-scale, open source dataset to advance research in automatic speech recognition (ASR). According to an official blog post introducing MLS, its English-language data set is about 47 times larger than that of the original LibriSpeech, a corpus that contains 1,000 hours of read English.
After Facebook's earnings, Todd Gordon of TradingAnalysis.com sees massive growth potential in one of the company's investments.
When Katherine Quirk saw how quickly COVID-19 vaccine appointments ran out at Broward Health, she knew the road to getting seniors vaccinated in South Florida wouldn't be easy. Not every senior has the resources to book appointments online. And with high demand, it's likely they won't get an appointment the first time they call a hotline.
is no stranger to controversy. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the social media giant is currently fighting an antitrust suit that threatens to break up the business and is the subject of debate around a law that has made the internet thrive. But its stock isn't controversial on Wall Street.
Some call it the Supreme Court of Facebook. Last year Facebook established its Oversight Board, a global group of 40 legal and policy experts, with the power to issue binding decisions on whether to reverse Facebook's removal of controversial content.
(( Roku NASDAQ:ROKU) and Facebook NASDAQ:FB) have both generated big returns for investors since their public debuts. Roku went public at $14 a share in 2017, closed at $23.50 the first day, and is now worth nearly $430 per share.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomed a new Facebook tool that aims to educate the public about the Holocaust. When users search certain key words related to the Holocaust, a pop-up will appear directing users to more detailed information.