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In the latest controversy involving the giant social network's news judgement, Facebook (fb) removed an iconic photo from the Vietnam War: A picture of a young Kim Phuc running naked down a road after her village was hit by napalm.

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

Better known as a home for looping GIFs, the social blogging service, owned by ailing tech giant Yahoo, is clearly playing a bit of catch - up by getting onboard with what its bigger competitors have tabbed as the Next Big Thing.

There's also the fact that social media giants make billions of dollars by selling ads that rely on the content we freely give them.

Ever since «fake news» first started to get traction during Donald Trump's presidential campaign, it has been seen by many as primarily a Facebook problem because many hoax and fake - news creators use the giant social network as a distribution system.

There's another source of recovery that involves little cost to the victim and is backed by the priceless punch of a social giant.

Even though the social media giant claims to have had consent, many people across the world were shocked by the sheer amount of personal information the site has on every user.

Instead, upstart brands like BioSteel are learning to leverage social networks, new generations of influencers and broader consumer trends to establish toeholds in markets seemingly locked up by a handful of giant, well - capitalized players.

Founded by Jonah Peretti, the new - media giant recently formed separate news and entertainment divisions, which has helped the company dominate video on social media.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

The departure comes a few years after his messaging app was acquired by the social - media giant for $ 22 billion.

The social networking giant's latest privacy changes have sparked an official inquiry by the FTC, according to a report by The New York Times.

Previously, the entire archive was only available to a few partners, like social analytics platform Gnip (which was subsequently acquired by Twitter in September), the Library of Congress and MIT's new Laboratory for Social Machines, which got a $ 10 million investment from the social giant in Ocsocial analytics platform Gnip (which was subsequently acquired by Twitter in September), the Library of Congress and MIT's new Laboratory for Social Machines, which got a $ 10 million investment from the social giant in OcSocial Machines, which got a $ 10 million investment from the social giant in Ocsocial giant in October.

The company, which is owned by Chinese social networking giant Tencent, has stayed mum on revenue it gets from its sole videogame title, various reports suggest that Riot Games easily pulls in more than $ 1 billion per year.

Europe has no doubts that tech firms other than Facebook are affected by privacy and data protection issues similar to the social media giant, European Commissioner Vera Jourova told CNBC.

In the assessments, mandated by a 2011 consent decree, PwC deemed Facebook's internal controls effective at protecting users» privacy — even after the social media giant lost control of a huge trove of user data that was improperly obtained by Cambridge Analytica.

Mark Zuckerberg and his data - hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile - scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant's stock price falling by over 13 percent this week.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.

The social media giant obviously has a direct interest in assessing shutdowns because its service delivery is affected by any cut - off.

The company recently admitted that the data on most of its 2 billion users could be compromised by malicious actors, a strong sign that the social media giant is not only misusing consumer data, but failing to protect it.

And that's how a platform giant which owns multiple social networks is able to circumvent the privacy firewall provided by e2e encryption to still be able to perform ad - targeting.

A recent study surprisingly indicates an about face when it comes to the social giant's organic reach; where photos used to command a huge amount of engagement and organic visibility, that honor has now been usurped by video.

The story, by Wired Editor - in - Chief Nicholas Thompson and Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein, is headlined «Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook — and the World» (subhead: «How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all») and sets the stage for the social network's current drama.

In a statement today, the social - media giant estimated 622,161 Facebook users in Canada had their data improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica through apps used by themselves or their friends.

Stocks are higher for the second day in a row after the strong bearish move in Tuesday, with the NASDAQ leading the way higher, led by Facebook, as the recently troubled social media giant is staging a strong bounce following yesterday's positive quarterly earnings report.

If the social giant appears in front of Congress later this fall to answer questions about how its network was abused by Russian organizations, it's possible that Stamos will be asked to represent the company.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's messaging and social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.

New figures have shown that a huge percentage of the world's photographs end up on Facebook, with the social networking giant's collection of 185 billion photos by world's end representing one - third of all digital photographs taken this year.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Exemplifying this phase of millenarian formation is book I of I Enoch, which, by an appropriation of the myth of Genesis 6:3 — 4, attributes the disintegration of the current social order to the birth of giants who «consumed the produce of all the people until the people detested feeding them.

In this economy, I see this as a social issue of serious impact — the big retail giants are getting richer by manipulating information sources to support their casues, rather than provide facts that could really help inform people and change lives.

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a talk given by Mike Bonnano, one of the Yes Men (self - proclaimed social justice pranksters famous for impersonating the CEOs of Dow Chemical, General Electric and similar corporate giants in the international media).

News Corp.'s auction of the once - mighty social networking site is coming to a close, with the media giant expected to receive a handful of bids by the end of the week that are in the neighborhood of $ 100 million, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Despite all of the outrage directed at Facebook on account of the Cambridge Analytica saga, a new poll conducted by Reuters / Ipsos reveals that the social networking giant hasn't seen a...

Carrying a giant money bag that reads «$ 16 billion in tax breaks for Wall Street,» a billboard that reads «Tax Wall Street Not Main Street» and chugging along wearing a beat up pair of sneakers, Tyner said Cuomo is abandoning some Democratic principles by not being a staunch - enough supporter of education, health care and social services.

The group includes WeBank, backed by social media group Tencent Holdings, and MYBank, controlled by Ant Financial, the financial affiliate of ecommerce giant Alibaba Group.

Fraudulent accounts backed by Russians may have purchased ads on Facebook during the election, the social media giant acknowledged on Wednesday.

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Social media giants will face multibillion - pound fines if they continue to allow bullying and harassment on their platforms under plans by the... Social media giants will face multibillion - pound fines if they continue to allow bullying and harassment on their platforms under plans by the... Social media giants will face multibillion - pound fines if they continue to allow bullying and harassment on their platforms under plans by the...

Encouraged by success of dating and social networking industry giants such as Match.com, Facebook, MySpace, PlentyOfFish and others, the number of newborn dating and commu nity sites keeps rising.

LONDON Nextdoor, a social network that acts as an alternative to industry giant Facebook by.

Utilising archival images and interview footage of the author and the three social - change giants, as well as historic misrepresentations of the black man in white American culture, I Am Not Your Negro offers an arcing, aching narrative that spans the centuries of abuse and oppression suffered by the African American population.

Like other researchers, we continue to be inspired by Martorella's charge to awaken a potential giant for social studies education.

The social media giant is going to roll out their own news app called Paper and should be out by the end of the month.

While that's a fairly common business strategy, joined recently by companies like social media giant Twitter, the current status of the stock sale is a positive sign for where... [Read more...]

The app was recently gobbled up by social networking giant Facebook last month for $ 1 billion.

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Tech giant Adobe has come out with its annual travel report, compiled by sifting through enormous amounts of data from travel booking sites and social media, and it has offered some tips for getting the best deals on summer vacation trips.