Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook after Christchurch terror attacks were livestreamed

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook after Christchurch terror attacks were livestreamed

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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company’s actions after terror attacks, including the mosque attacks in Christchurch, were livestreamed on the social media site. Zuckerberg stressed the company has to work harder to “amplify the good things that people do and to mitigate and remove as much of the negative as possible”, he said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News. Facebook was extremely criticized after the shooting in Christchurch was… Read more »

Facebook and Instagram suffer most severe outage ever

Facebook and Instagram suffer most severe outage ever

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Facebook appears to be recovering from a more than 14-hour disruption to all of its products that left them mostly inaccessible across the globe. The company’s main social network, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected. Facebook has yet to offer an explanation for the outage. The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in… Read more »

Data on 540 million Facebook users exposed

Data on 540 million Facebook users exposed

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Detailed info concerning more than 540 million Facebook users was left publicly visible for months, a security firm has found. UpGuard found the large cache of information on unsecured Amazon servers used by a Mexican social media firm. The information came from visitors to Cultura Colectiva’s Facebook pages and included account names, ID numbers, comments and reactions. Facebook said the data had currently been removed from the servers…. Read more »

Facebook demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords

Facebook demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords

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Mark Zuckerberg admitted recently that Facebook doesn’t have a ‘strong reputation’ for privacy. An odd new request for personal information probably won’t help with that rep. Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users’ own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users to fork over the password for their outside… Read more »