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Inside Facebook, YouTube and Twitter’s Struggle to Purge Video of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks
Facebook’s AI technology can spot blood and gore from the livestream, enabling Facebook to immediately remove uploads showing the most gruesome footage, a rep tells TheWrap
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Death Toll in New Zealand Mosque Shootings Rises to 50
Apparent video of the attack was posted on Facebook, New York Times says
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Facebook Loses Two Top Executives, Including Chief Product Officer Chris Cox
WhatsApp VP Chris Daniels also to depart social network, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says
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Facebook and Instagram Are Down for Some Users
“Facebook???? Instagram???? Atleast the Soulja App isn’t down,” rapper Soulja Boy says of outage
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Elizabeth Warren Rips Facebook After It Reinstates Her Anti-Facebook Ads
Presidential candidate says that social media platform “has too much power”
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Facebook Commits to New ‘Privacy First’ Mantra, Mark Zuckerberg Says
CEO says Facebook’s network of apps will adopt end-to-end encryption and auto-deleting messages
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Pluto TV CEO on Impact of $340 Million Viacom Deal – and a Possible Premium Streaming Plan
“We’ve grown fast, but we’re going to grow a heckuva lot faster now that we’re partnering up with Viacom,” CEO Tom Ryan says
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Is Facebook Stuck in a No-Win Position When It Comes to Moderating Content?
“People already generally think that we have too much power in deciding what content is good,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview
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Will Smith Checks Skydiving Off His Bucket List in New Facebook Watch Series
Six-episode series will show “Aladdin” star swimming with sharks and performing standup comedy
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Facebook’s Top-Secret Content Moderators Smoke Marijuana to ‘Numb Their Emotions,’ Report Says
It’s impossible to “not come out of it with some acute stress disorder or PTSD” a former moderator tells The Verge
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How Digital Video Publishers Are Racing to Take Advantage of Connected TV’s Growth in Popularity
Connected TV use is rising and companies like Conde Nast and Refinery29 want in
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Facebook Shuts Down Data-Collection App Onavo
Onavo is being pulled from the Google Play store months after it was kicked off Apple’s App Store
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Facebook Acted Like ‘Digital Gangsters,’ British Parliament Says
Social network is criticized for overlooking user privacy in order to grow its ad business, according to U.K. lawmakers
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Deepfake Videos Could Become Undetectable Within the Next 2 Years, Experts Say
“You now have an emerging technology that has a much greater capacity for persuasion,” law professor Robert Chesney says
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Why Social Media Goliath Jellysmack Is Betting Big on Participatory Video
5 Questions: The digital publisher formerly known as Keli Networks is going all in on original content and beauty-focused videos
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