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- Facebook data found on publicly accessible Amazon servers https://www.axios.com/facebook-data-found-publicly-available-amazon-servers-0f82bc1f-0b24-422f-a26d-bf6e91fbd828.html 3 comments
- Tell HN: Asana.com founded by that other facebook guy just got 9M and is hiring http://www.asana.com/#join 21 comments
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- How I Hacked Facebook, and Found Someone Else's Backdoor Script http://devco.re/blog/2016/04/21/how-I-hacked-facebook-and-found-someones-backdoor-script-eng-ver/ 7 comments security
- 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
- Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group describes as “alarming” https://apnews.com/article/technology-elections-social-media-f531e36b4b2e068faa51ba2e7159d052 118 comments worldnews
- Facebook found that a vast amount of its anti-vaxx content comes from a hard core of only 111 accounts https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-identifies-111-accounts-behind-most-anti-vaxx-posts-2021-3?amp%3BIR=T&r=US 17 comments technology
- Facebook data on more than 500M accounts found online https://apnews.com/article/business-media-social-media-fce118b1adfef8f6c51518f71465dd4b 49 comments worldnews
- Trump supporters thought they found a Facebook group for them. It became their worst nightmare. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/11/trump-supporters-thought-found-facebook-group-became-worst-nightmare/ 117 comments politics
- Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial?utm_source=mit+technology+review%3A+marketing+%26+newsletters&utm_campaign=d0176d03a2-email_campaign_2020_08_14_09_38_copy_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e2349bbf6b-d0176d03a2-160006445 26 comments worldnews
- Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial 20 comments nottheonion
- Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algorithm-found-to-actively-promote-holocaust-denial 1470 comments technology
- Facebook says it found no foreign interference targeting U.S. protests https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-facebook-protests/facebook-says-it-found-no-foreign-interference-targeting-u-s-protests-iduskbn23c2gu?feedtype=rss&feedname=technologynews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+reuters/technologynews+(reuters+technology+news) 29 comments politics
- “Good Day for a Choke Hold” - A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilyhoerner/police-facebook-racist-violent-posts-comments-philadelphia 10 comments technology
- Facebook's Zuckerberg, Sandberg could be found in contempt of Parliament, MPs warn https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-contempt-parliament-1.5145347 3 comments technology
- Facebook's Zuckerberg, Sandberg could be found in contempt of Parliament, MPs warn https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-contempt-parliament-1.5145347 25 comments politics
- 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
- What happens when you get off Facebook for four weeks? Stanford researchers found out. https://www.recode.net/2019/2/27/18243546/facebook-study-stanford-gentzkow-wellbeing-politcal-polarization 4 comments technology
- Facebook engineers went without shoes in a company cafeteria, sparking a clash with salespeople who found it 'disgusting' https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/facebook-shoegate-culture-clash-between-sales-engineering-in-ny.html 11 comments technology
- Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Sponsored a Conference That Promoted Climate Change Denial | The conference was backed by a group founded to spread the “good news” about carbon emissions. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/google-facebook-and-microsoft-sponsored-a-conference-that-promoted-climate-change-denial/ 46 comments technology
- People’s Facebook posts might predict whether they are suffering from depression. The researchers found that the words people used seemed to indicate whether they would later be diagnosed with depression. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/facebook-posts-may-point-depression-study-finds-n920356 8 comments science
- Facebook faces UK fine of around $660,000 after data scandal found to be illegal https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/facebook-faces-uk-ico-fine-after-data-scandal-found-to-be-illegal.html 7 comments worldnews
- Fox News Thinks It Found Hillary Clinton’s Facebook Scandal. It Didn’t. https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/fox-news-thinks-it-found-hillary-clintons-facebook-scandal-it-didnt.html 20 comments politics
- Twitter says it found 201 accounts linked to the same Russian activity on Facebook https://businessinsider.com/twitter-found-201-accounts-linked-to-russian-activity-on-facebook-2017-9 14 comments politics
- Found it on Facebook. Did Aajtak really? :o https://i.redd.it/w2d4u9jbddcz.jpg 11 comments india
- [NP] Found this argument against Withdrawal limits on Facebook. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5leobu/np_found_this_argument_against_withdrawal_limits/ 268 comments india
- besides paying for advertisement, has anyone found a reliable way to gain facebook likes? https://www.reddit.com/r/ecommerce/comments/4yoy7q/besides_paying_for_advertisement_has_anyone_found/ 5 comments ecommerce
- German Anti-Immigrant Leader Fined Over Facebook Post. One of the leaders of Pegida, the German anti-immigrant movement, was found guilty of incitement on Tuesday for insulting refugees in a social media post two years ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/europe/lutz-bachmann-pegida-fined-germany.html?ref=world 96 comments europe
- Pavel Durov, creator of VK (Russia's facebook) resigns as CEO, "claiming he was no longer able to defend the network’s founding principles." http://gigaom.com/2014/04/01/russias-zuckerberg-pavel-durov-quits-as-vkontakte-ceo-after-kremlin-allies-take-over/ 10 comments worldnews
- Pic of the Lotus E22 found on their Facebook page https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1656301_10200626472582842_1197153325_n.jpg 19 comments formula1
- I found this article from a friend on facebook. Its about a single wolfpack killing 176 sheep in one night. Is that really possible? Something seems off- can anyone coroborate a single wolf packs ability to cause so much destruction? http://valleycitizen.com/stories_news_detail.php?pkstories=741 39 comments science
- Researcher: Facebook Ignored the Bug I Found Until I Used It to Hack Zuckerberg http://finance.yahoo.com/news/researcher-facebook-ignored-bug-found-143418388.html 79 comments technology
- Sword Gets up to 30 Years for Sex with Biological Son She Found on Facebook - Crimesider - CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20010375-504083.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Why Facebook is a lie: Even with 120 friends, Facebook’s in-house sociologist found that people only really interact with about seven people on average -- with 500 friends, you still only interact with a large handful: 17 for men, 26 for women http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/03/06/our-monkey-brain-status-update/ 4 comments technology
- The breastfeeding photos that Facebook found so offensive http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/breastfeeding-photos-that-facebook.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Will Facebook be fined after hack attack?. The social network could face a hefty fine if it is found to have breached data protection rules. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45706809 3 comments technology
- Facebook’s Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias: Analysis found female engineers received 35% more rejections of their code than men https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-female-engineers-claim-gender-bias-1493737116 11 comments technology
- Facebook's Instagram saw the biggest year-over-year drop — usage was down 23.7 percent this year, closely followed by Twitter (down 23.4 percent), Snapchat (down 15.7 percent) and Facebook (down 8 percent), the study found. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/06/people-are-spending-much-less-time-on-social-media-apps-said-report.html 95 comments technology
- "On the 12th of February, 2009 I've received a 'Cease and Desist' e-mail from Facebook's lawyers. As a result, the project will be closed at latest the 19th of February, 2009." Heard his project was really good, but found this when looking for it. http://www.ohloh.net/p/facebook-c-sharp 113 comments programming
- Man found guilty of war crime in Finland after posing for photo with decapitated head of IS fighter - Jebbar Salman Ammar, 29, had posted three images on Facebook of himself with the head of a fighter. http://www.thejournal.ie/decapitated-head-facebook-post-war-crime-2671778-mar2016/ 90 comments europe
- I found this extension called Facebook Flat, claims "This Chrome extension can create new Facebook design, UX/UI, remove ads and make FB load faster." 5885 reviews give it a 4.5 stars https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-flat/kadbillinepbjlgenaliokdhejdmmlgp?hl=en 17 comments chrome
