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Scandinavia’s favorite TV-show Skam — or “Shame”— is airing in the US, at 3.40 PM CT today on Facebook Watch. Oh, you have no idea how excited you should be. Skam, as it is called in the original, is a Norwegian tv-show produced by the public broadcasting channel NRK. It follows a group of friends at a high-school in Oslo and depicts their everyday … [Read more...] about Cancel your plans: Remake of Norwegian internet hit-show Skam airs in the US today

A Cambridge University professor at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal says that the former CEO of data firm Cambridge Analytica lied to a British parliamentary committee investigating fake news.Academic Aleksandr Kogan's company, Global Science Research, developed a Facebook app that vacuumed up information from users as well as additional data from their Facebook … [Read more...] about Ex-Cambridge Analytica CEO lied, says academic

Facebook has long been dogged by criticism that it unfairly censors content, ranging from conservative voices to a breast cancer awareness video and even the iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked young girl running from a napalm attack. With its latest move, Facebook wants to make its process for handling offensive content more transparent to ensure no one is being unfairly … [Read more...] about Facebook responds to censorship critics with transparency pledge

Later Monday, Kogan told NBC's "Today" Show that many current third-party Facebook apps have language in "direct contradiction" to Facebook's policy. "It's a bit like if you work in a building, and everybody brings in a dog, and you bring in your dog and it pees somewhere. And they come to you and they're like, 'Hey, how could you bring in your dog? We have a clear no-dog … [Read more...] about Data scientist behind Cambridge Analytica scandal fires back at Facebook

The UK's leading personal finance expert launched a lawsuit against Facebook in Britain, claiming the social media company is allowing the publication of scam ads featuring his name.Martin Lewis, who founded the MoneySavingExpert website, says his name has appeared on more than 50 advertisements in the last year, many of them get-rich-quick scams to con people."It's affecting … [Read more...] about UK’s top financial expert taking Facebook to UK court over fake ads

Once on the outside, Chaslot said he created a program to analyze how the algorithm was recommending conspiracy videos by using a YouTube account with no viewing history to search for certain topics and collect which videos were recommended to users most. This means that while “good” or “harmless” videos might be included in the mix of recommendations, … [Read more...] about As algorithms take over, YouTube’s recommendations highlight a human problem

Facebook originally earned the ire of Republicans after Gizmodo reported in May 2016 that some employees at the social media giant edited out conservative news stories from their powerful “trending” section. The uproar after the Gizmodo report caused Facebook to scramble and roll out a number of updates to the way the News Feed and Trending sections operate. After … [Read more...] about GOP accuses Facebook of censorship but conservative media flourishes online

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took around 600 questions in two days of testimony before Congress this week on everything from what hotel he was staying at to how privacy settings work on Facebook. But some important questions weren’t even asked — … [Read more...] about About 600 questions later, Zuckerberg and Congress leave major issues about Facebook unanswered

Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Despite the public relations disaster confronting Facebook, the company’s advertising business appears to be doing just fine. Ad spending on Facebook increased in the week following revelations that the company failed to secure the personal data of … [Read more...] about Facebook’s scandals aren’t hurting its bottom line

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that regulation of social media companies is "inevitable" and disclosed that his own personal information has been compromised by malicious outsiders. But after two days of congressional testimony, what seemed clear was how little Congress seems to know about Facebook, much less what to do about it.House lawmakers aggressively … [Read more...] about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Regulation ‘inevitable’ for social media firms