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- Facebook Moderators Speak Out About Poor Working Conditions in Ireland https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mqj4/watch-facebook-moderators-speak-out-about-poor-working-conditions-in-ireland 106 comments
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- Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf 2 comments pdf , privacy
- Facebook Ad Blocker That Actually Works https://apps.apple.com/app/ad-blocker-for-facebook/id6444195366 6 comments safari
- We All Work for Facebook https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/ 16 comments technology
- Andrei Alexandrescu on leaving Facebook to work on D https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ioy9b/andrei_alexandrescu_c_guru_leaves_facebook_to/ 20 comments rust
- How Come 6-Degrees of Seperation Does Not Work on Facebook? http://itotd.com/articles/222/six-degrees-of-separation/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Facebook working on reducing fake content about coronavirus https://apnews.com/7860f6f53fee990fec2de9875197cc10 5 comments worldnews
- Our past work with Facebook – The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/11/our-past-work-with-facebook/ 9 comments firefox
- Was Facebook’s Work With the Trump Campaign Illegal? https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/was-facebooks-work-with-the-trump-campaign-illegal.html 19 comments politics
- Facebook Is Suspending Cambridge Analytica, The Data Company That Worked For Trump's Campaign https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/facebook-is-suspending-cambridge-analytica?utm_term=.he6jyb5er#.ysglxe8qr 62 comments politics
- Australia’s standoff against Google and Facebook worked—sort of https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/australias-standoff-against-google-and-facebook-worked-sort-of/ 23 comments technology
- Facebook Working With Comcast To Scuttle California Broadband Privacy Protections https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180320/15165739461/facebook-working-with-comcast-to-scuttle-california-broadband-privacy-protections.shtml 18 comments politics
- If Facebook makes billions from my data, I deserve the basic income as a dividend for my work | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/universal-basic-income-data-advertising-facebook-google-profit-from-posts-reward-hard-work-data-a7567751.html 234 comments technology
- 'Unfriending' on Facebook can amount to bullying, Fair Work Commission says http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-25/fair-work-commission-finds-unfriending-on-facebook-can-bullying/6805484 7 comments nottheonion
- Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Works (code-wise) To An Empty Room http://www.appstorechronicle.com/2014/10/zuckerberg-harvard-lecture.html 33 comments coding
- What If Google And Facebook Admitted That All This Ad Targeting Really Doesn't Work That Well? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190319/23223441830/what-if-google-facebook-admitted-that-all-this-ad-targeting-really-doesnt-work-that-well.shtml 82 comments technology
- Facebook’s “downvote” system begins rolling out wider in US—here’s how it works https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/facebooks-downvote-system-begins-rolling-out-wider-in-us-heres-how-it-works/ 5 comments technology
- Zuckerberg: Facebook Is Working on a Brain Interface That Lets You “Communicate Using Only Your Mind" https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-facebook-will-reveal-a-brain-interface-that-lets-you-communicate-using-only-your-mind/ 13 comments worldnews
- Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-working-on-a-foursquare-killer-2010-1 7 comments technology
- Facebook launches FB at Work. Would you trust Facebook with your professional data ? Their ads are already creepy. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-at-work-could-target-google-and-linkedin-2014-11-18 6 comments stocks
- Thompson says Facebook is "working with" House January 6 select committee https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bennie-thompson-facebook-house-january-6-committee/ 17 comments politics
- French investigators to work directly with Facebook to monitor hate speech https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/french-investigators-to-work-directly-with-facebook-to-monitor-hate-speech/ 7 comments technology
- Facebook promised to tackle fake news. But the evidence shows it's not working https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/16/facebook-fake-news-tools-not-working?cmp=twt_a-technology_b-gdntech 48 comments technology
- I worked on Facebook's Trending team – the most toxic work experience of my life | Technology https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/facebook-trending-news-team-curators-toxic-work-environment 3 comments worldnews
- The woman in the Facebook frathouse: Facebook's second female employee remembers working in the boys' club. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052702304898704577478483529665936.html?mod=googlenews_wsj 4 comments technology
- Facebook Employee ID Badges Weren’t Working Today, So They Couldn’t Get In to Fix the Outage https://sfist.com/2021/10/04/facebook-employee-id-badges-werent-even-working-so-they-couldnt-get-in-to-fix-the-outage/ 10 comments worldnews
- Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook staff won’t need vaccine to return to work https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/zuckerberg-facebook-staff-office-vaccine-covid-b1769695.html 67 comments worldnews
- Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to recruiters who worked there https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html 1065 comments technology
- Facebook content reviewers are coping with PTSD symptoms by having sex and doing drugs at work, report says https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/25/facebook-content-moderators-describe-a-stressful-work-environment.html?fbclid=iwar3fwcppnheclndblqgwzlofzes5taeavan9xnxdzzd4i2agcfdo7mznmkw 9 comments nottheonion
- Facebook down: Social media site not working for many, according to reports - WCPO Cincinnati, OH https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/facebook-down 4 comments technology
- Half of Facebook users say they don't understand how news feed works https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/09/05/half-facebook-users-say-they-dont-understand-news-feed/1190595002/ 8 comments politics
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says company is working with special counsel Robert Mueller in Russia probe http://abcnews.go.com/technology/wirestory/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-company-working-special-counsel-54372630 5 comments politics
- Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ guru, leaves Facebook to work on D language full-time http://forum.dlang.org/thread/xsqrdgwnzehdmfmvcznn@forum.dlang.org 595 comments programming
- Scores of Facebook contractors just lost their work with the company. They found out through a video call with anonymous representatives, who said an 'algorithm' chose random people to cut, workers said https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-contract-workers-accenture-austin-lost-jobs-2022-8 60 comments technology
- Client received this email from Facebook. Looks and sounds 100% fake as it came from email: messaging-service [at] post.xero.com. The URL looks genuine. How does this scam work!?! https://www.facebook.com/Appeal-Form-109718711755129 5 comments ppc
- A Snopes investigation has found that 34 different facebook pages spreading Islamophobia and Pro-Trump memes from different ethnic and interest groups is actually the work of one evangelical in Ohio. https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/05/15/radical-evangelical-facebook/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app 59 comments politics
- Does your favourite app share data with Facebook? We are Privacy International and we're here to discuss the results of our latest app audit. Some apps violate your privacy by automatically sending personal data to Facebook. We've released our testing environment so you can replicate our work - AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/axs60f/does_your_favourite_app_share_data_with_facebook/ 106 comments technology
- Total agreement between Cyril, Nico and Daniel on Facebook Live that they’d love an annual “throwback” @F1 race. Every team runs in retro inspired livery from a set period. Uniforms, tv crews, fans, everyone gets into the spirit by dressing up. Works in other series. Why not F1? https://twitter.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1095340541112246272 193 comments formula1
- The people who get how Facebook works are also the most likely to leave it - 44% of people aged 18 to 29 said they deleted the Facebook app from their phones in the last year, according to new research from Pew. https://www.fastcompany.com/90232793/the-people-who-get-how-facebook-works-are-also-the-most-likely-to-leave-it 120 comments technology
- South Carolina police chief to Facebook critic: "We will work on finding you." When Brandon Whitmer criticized cops in Columbia, S.C. for focusing on small-time drug raids instead of solving violent crimes, interim police chief Ruben Santiago had words for him. http://boingboing.net/2013/11/01/south-carolina-police-chief-t.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 20 comments politics