- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 6th, 2018
Facebook Removes More Than 100 Accounts Right Before US Midterms
Profiles disabled due to 'coordinated inauthentic behavior'
- Data Breaches
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- November 2nd, 2018
120 Million Facebook Accounts Compromised, Private Messages of 81,000 for Sale
Facebook blames breach on browsers add-ons
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 26th, 2018
Facebook Removed 82 Iranian Pages, Groups, Accounts Posing as US or UK citizens
Roughly 1 million US, UK users followed the removed accounts
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 25th, 2018
Facebook Gets £500,000 Fine from ICO for Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal
The fine is the maximum allowed by the law
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 23rd, 2018
Facebook Unveils Ad Archive Transparency Tool for Political Related Ads
The Ad Archive report is updated on a weekly basis
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Report Says Facebook Believes Spammers Were Behind September Security Attack
Social network's investigation blames fake advertisers
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Facebook Creates War Room to Combat Fake News Ahead of September Elections
Machine learning and AI are used to block fake accounts
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Facebook Allegedly Hid Inflated Video Ad Metrics of Up to 900 Percent
Video ad metrics issue was known one year before disclosure
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Facebook Won't Display Ads on Its Portal Devices, Will Use Data for Ad Targeting
Backpedals on Portal and Portal+ focus on privacy
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 12th, 2018
Facebook Says FBI Asked Them Not to Reveal Attackers Behind Last Month's Breach
30 million out of the estimated 50 had access tokens stolen
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 11th, 2018
Facebook Removes 559 Pages and 251 Accounts for Spam
For breaking spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior rules
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 6th, 2018
Facebook to Circumvent Cross-Site Tracking Block with New First-Party Cookie
The new cookie to help advertisers track users across sites
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 5th, 2018
Instagram Testing Sharing of Precise Location History with Facebook
Opt-in feature to help Facebook improve the platform
- Microsoft
- By Bogdan Popa
- October 5th, 2018
Apple Beats Microsoft in Best Global Brands Top
16 percent brand value increase scored by both
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 3rd, 2018
Facebook Accused of Collecting Children's Personal Info in FTC Complaint
Messenger Kids app data collection reportedly breaking COPPA
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 3rd, 2018
FTC Releases Alert about Facebook Breach Involving 50 Million Users
Details the next steps users should take after the breach
- Web / Internet Life
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 2nd, 2018
Facebook Adds Anti-Bullying Tools For Users and Young Public Figures
Comment reporting and moderation among the new tools added