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Facebook Briefed U.K. Government on Counter-Terrorism Effort

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg briefed U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd on the social network’s counter-terrorism efforts Friday, the company said in an emailed statement describing the meeting as "constructive."
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Publish Date:25/June/2017 | 04:45

Facebook ’s Oculus Fights Sales Ban for VR Rift Headset

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. wants a federal judge to let it continue sales of its virtual-reality headsets even though a jury said the social-media giant’s Oculus unit stole another company’s computer code.
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Publish Date:21/June/2017 | 04:24

Facebook Enlists AI, Human Experts in New Push Against Terrorism

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. has hired more than 150 counterterrorism experts and is increasingly using artificial intelligence that can understand language and analyze images to try to keep terrorists from using the social network for recruiting and propaganda.
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Publish Date:15/June/2017 | 22:00

Google and Facebook Join Cities in Challenging Trump on Climate

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. are among dozens of companies that pledged their support for policies combating climate change following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord.
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Publish Date:06/June/2017 | 08:47

Major U.S. tech firms press Congress for internet surveillance reforms

EghtesadOnline: Facebook , Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency.
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Publish Date:28/May/2017 | 05:19

Facebook leaked documents show types of content it allows: Guardian

EghtesadOnline: Leaked Facebook Inc documents show how the social media company moderates issues such as hate speech, terrorism, pornography and self-harm on its platform, the Guardian reported, citing internal guidelines seen by the newspaper.
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Publish Date:22/May/2017 | 05:27
Snapchat’s user growth is slowing. Prepare for the deluxe ads.

Snap Unveils New Camera Ads Trying to Stay Ahead of Facebook

EghtesadOnline: On Cinco de Mayo, millions of Snapchat users willingly turned their selfies into an ad for Taco Bell. The app’s augmented-reality camera filter, known on the service as a Lens, let them see their heads in the shape of a giant, wobbling hardshell taco, with lettuce and tomato poking out and the fast-food chain’s logo in the corner of the shot. In the one day it was available, the filter racked up about 224 million views.
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Publish Date:16/May/2017 | 05:50

Sandberg Called `Hypocrite' as Facebook , Google Shield Pay Data

EghtesadOnline: When Grace Anderson prints out her resume, she notices 20 percent of it is missing. Still, her qualifications are so good that she’s offered the job she seeks by a man who says, "We think you’ll be pleased with the offer -- that we gave someone else. You’ll be making 20 percent less."
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Publish Date:15/April/2017 | 05:19
Search giant is letting partners and publishers decide what's true, what's false and what's in between.

Google Brings Fake News Fact-Checking to Search Results

EghtesadOnline: First fact-checking came to Facebook Inc. Now it's coming to Google. The world's largest search engine is rolling out a new feature that places "Fact Check" tags on snippets of articles in its News results. The Alphabet Inc. unit had already run limited tests. On Friday, it extended the capability to every listing in its News pages and massive search catalog.
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Publish Date:08/April/2017 | 04:46

U.K. Tells WhatsApp to Open Up to Intelligence Services

EghtesadOnline: U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging system should open its encryption to security services and urged online companies to be more aggressive in shutting down sites exploited by terrorists.
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Publish Date:26/March/2017 | 24:23

Apple drives further into Facebook , Snap territory with video app

EghtesadOnline: With the release of a new video app called Clips, Apple Inc is inching one step closer to fully engaging in the messaging world, where its huge base of iPhone users could help it compete with Snap Inc's Snapchat and Facebook Inc's Messenger.
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Publish Date:22/March/2017 | 07:46

EU authorities demand changes from Facebook , Google, Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Social media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc will have to amend their terms of service for European users within a month or face the risk of fines, a European Commission official said on Friday.
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Publish Date:18/March/2017 | 16:01

Facebook bars developers from using data for surveillance

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc barred software developers on Monday from using the massive social network's data to create surveillance tools, closing off a process that had been exploited by U.S. police departments to track protesters.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:40

Facebook Doesn't Understand German, at Least Not in Court

EghtesadOnline: A German lawsuit over a photo showing a Syrian refugee with Chancellor Angela Merkel has put Facebook Inc.’s hate-speech policies under scrutiny. But the high-profile case has also shed light on complaints that the company tries to avoid and delay lawsuits in the country.
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Publish Date:08/March/2017 | 05:42

Facebook suspends location-sharing feature after Italian copyright suit

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc has suspended its location-sharing feature in Italy after a Milan court ruled last year that the social networking giant had violated competition and copyright laws by effectively copying a similar app from a local start-up.
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Publish Date:07/March/2017 | 06:03

Snap IPO Values Photo-Chat App Maker at Twice Facebook ’s Worth

EghtesadOnline: Snap Inc., maker of the disappearing photo app dependent upon the fickle favor of the millennial demographic, is going public at a valuation at least twice as expensive as Facebook Inc., and four times more costly than Twitter Inc.
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Publish Date:02/March/2017 | 10:47

TransferWise launches international money transfers via Facebook

EghtesadOnline: Money transfer company TransferWise has launched a new service that allows users to send money internationally through Facebook Inc's chat application, as competition in the digital payments landscape intensifies.
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Publish Date:22/February/2017 | 05:36