Tag: facebook

• Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps

  October 1, 2020

  Stan Chudnovsky doesn’t remember when CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other top Facebook executives began talking about treating the company’s portfolio of services more like, well, a portfolio. With some of… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America

  September 6, 2020

  Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions… more ›

• What if Facebook goes down? Ethical and legal considerations for the demise of big tech

  August 16, 2020

  Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, “Big Tech” platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail?… more ›

• Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook.

  July 28, 2020

  In Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to… more ›

• Facebook is simulating users’ bad behavior using AI

  July 26, 2020

  Facebook’s engineers have developed a new method to help them identify and prevent harmful behavior like users spreading spam, scamming others, or buying and selling weapons and drugs. They can… more ›

• Good Questions, Real Answers: How Does Facebook Use Machine Learning to Deliver Ads?

  June 24, 2020

  Machine learning is a system that learns as it receives new data, without being explicitly programmed, to carry out complex tasks quickly and efficiently. Facebook uses machine learning to generate… more ›

• How Facebook Works for Trump

  April 19, 2020

  Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again. Updated on April 18 at… more ›

• One year inside Trump’s monumental Facebook campaign

  January 30, 2020

  A Guardian investigation of 218,100 ads reveals how the campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters by in San Francisco As the Democratic candidates for president spent 2019 battling… more ›

• Enforcing Against Manipulated Media

  January 12, 2020

  People share millions of photos and videos on Facebook every day, creating some of the most compelling and creative visuals on our platform. Some of that content is manipulated, often… more ›

• Why the 2010s were the Facebook Decade

  December 31, 2019

  By the end of 2009, Facebook—under the control of its then 25-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg—was clearly on the rise. It more than doubled its subscriber base during the year, from… more ›