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FTC Approves Record $5 Billion Settlement With Facebook
The settlement easily surpasses the FTC’s largest penalty to this point — a $22.5 million fine against Google in 2012
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Instagram Adds New Feature to ‘Restrict’ Digital Bullies
Mean comments will be hidden behind a “sensitivity screen” and allow a user to approve if they end up on their posts
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How Facebook and Twitter’s Content Moderation Could Open a Legal ‘Pandora’s Box’
“It opens them up to liability for information that’s published on their platform,” Matt Bilinsky, a tech and media-focused attorney in Los Angeles, says
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Trump Campaign’s Facebook Ads Use Foreign Models to Portray Real Supporters
“Tracey from Florida” is actually from France, it turns out
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Facebook Office Evacuated After Potentially Deadly Chemical Detected in Package
Sarin, a “chemical warfare agent classified as a nerve agent,” was detected during a routine mail inspection
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Trump Yuks It Up With Putin: ‘Fake News Is a Great Term, Isn’t It?’
The president also playfully requested Russia doesn’t interfere with the 2020 election
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Juanpa Zurita, Nabela Noor to Star in 2 New Facebook Watch Series From ATTN: (Exclusive)
Both shows are funded by Facebook and will live exclusively on Watch
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Conde Nast Entertainment Names Kathryn Friedrich as General Manager, EVP of Operations
She was previously chief business officer at RYOT Studio
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Instagram Head Insists App Doesn’t Listen to User Conversations
Adam Mosseri tells CBS that checking user conversations “would be super problematic”
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Mediaite, Daily Caller, Raw Story and Others Launch Ad-Sales Alliance to Challenge Google, Facebook
Political ad spending expected to be close to $10 billion in 2020
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Facebook Moderators Suffer ‘Sweatshop’ Work Conditions, Ex-Employee Says
Social network’s contracted mods describe a filthy workplace compounded by sexual harassment and threats of violence
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Is Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency a ‘Bitcoin Killer’? 6 Things to Know About Libra
“It’s a good bet on Facebook’s part,” Los Angeles-based securities trader Michael Queller says
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Viacom Will Take VidCon to Mexico City in 2020
Mexico will be the first country in Latin America to host the creator conference
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Instagram Goes Down Across the Globe
This wasn’t the first time the Facebook-owned app has went offline in 2019
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Facebook Watch Hits 140 Million Daily Active Users, Up 47% From December
Company says it reaches 750 million users monthly that spend at least one minute with the platform