facebook issues

My first question is, what is this? Yesterday I got an email from a friend. Or so I thought. The title was "Robert Smith sent you a message." It looked a little hinky but I was at work so I opened it on a company computer. :o The text read the same as the title: "Robert Smith sent you a...

Looks like a major outage at Facebook currently, the whole site seems to be down.

One presumes that Google blocking its search engine in Australia will have no affect on Google accounts or emails. Google says it will pull its search engine from Australia if it is forced to pay news publishers to host their content... Google insisted during a parliamentary inquiry that it...

Facebook blames 'technical issue' for offensive Xi Jinping translation You'll have to go to the link to read the actual word, but it's one that Donald Trump recently used to describe poor third-world countries, as in "******** countries."

A freshman planning to attend Harvard (who is named as a minor in the article) was reportedly treated poorly by immigration officials. According to the article: The part that pisses me off the most as someone who believes in personal liberties: I don't like this practice, but the kid did it...

That scary feeling when Facebook shows you an ad from something you looked at elsewhere? "To help shed more light on these practices that are common yet not always well understood, today we’re introducing a new way to view and control your off-Facebook activity. Off-Facebook Activity lets you...

Facebook "aim to build a culture that explicitly protects and promotes civil rights on Facebook." Here's the second update from their Civil Rights Audit. https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06/second-update-civil-rights-audit/ They now ban posts from people who intend to bring weapons anywhere...

Watch Zuckerberg confess: “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.” Except it's not him. Videos faking people out has moved ahead another step. What goes around comes around. The Zuckerberg...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/facebook-bans-far-right-groups-including-bnp-edl-and-britain-first Not sure if this is a UK only thing; all the organisations and people referred to are UK based. Is this happening in other countries too?

Facebook has launched a public survey on how to improve oversight. Newsroom announcement: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/input-on-an-oversight-board/ The survey: https://facebook.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bOUlYqCh6jD7gI5 "In this consultation, we are actively seeking...

Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’

I'm looking into facebook ads and found this rather delicious little video that seems to show that FB advertising is a waste of money. Well done and definitely worth ten minutes of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag :)

The site has a reputation for bowing to religious whiners who complain that criticism of their faith is hate speech. Ironically, Zuckerberg is purported to be an atheist himself. Facebook once banned me from posting anything there for 24 hours for sharing a fact about a specific religion, and...