Facebook and Twitter have announced new measures aimed at combating efforts by foreign sources to interfere in U.S. elections. The moves target the kind of efforts used by Russian-linked agents in the 2016 presidential election and largely aim to increase …
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Controversial data research firm Cambridge Analytica announced it was shutting its doors this week. The company uses psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict human behavior. It’s best known for harvesting the personal information of some 87 million …
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You may soon find your perfect match on Facebook. The social media giant announced the rollout of a dating feature on its platform this week. The feature will work by allowing you to click on a “heart” icon to reach …
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Facebook is looking to build its own chips and hardware according to employment ads the company has placed, as well as people familiar with the matter. It’s believed the company is looking to decrease its dependence on other chip makers …
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Facebook is paying $9 million to protect its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
The figure was revealed in a public filing that shows the social media giant increased the amount paid to secure Zuckerburg more than 50%, going from $5.8 million spent …
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, endured a marathon session of questioning yesterday on Capitol Hill from a joint Senate committee looking to get to the bottom of the social media giant’s actions in several incidents where tens of millions of …
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Social media giant Facebook has announced the deletion of more than 270 accounts reportedly operated by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian disinformation operation. All in all, 138 pages, seventy-five accounts and sixty-five Instagram accounts to tide the IRA were …
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Facebook, in announcing significant changes to its information-sharing features with third-party app developers, has announced that up to 87 million Facebook users – mostly in the U.S. – have had their information inappropriately harvested by political data research firm Cambridge …
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A leaked memo has caused an uproar at Facebook by employees who are both upset about the memo and others who are upset it leaked. In the memo, Andrew Bosworth, a Facebook vice president wrote that Facebook’s growth rate is …
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Cambridge Analytica, the data research firm, has issued an extended statement explaining the types of data the firm used, and didn’t use, during the 2016 presidential election. The firm started working for the Trump campaign in June 2016. It has …
Continue ReadingFacebook has been scraping metadata from users’ telephone calls, including names, phone numbers, whether the calls were outgoing or incoming, as well as call length it was revealed this week.
The discovery was made by a man in New Zealand …
Continue ReadingThe parent company of data research firm Cambridge Analytica, Strategic Communications Laboratories, has bragged about interference-tactics in foreign elections according to promotional materials published by the company. SCL, and its subsidiary, use psychometrics, the study of human characteristics to predict …
Continue ReadingAttorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last week in a surprising but not entirely unexpected move. Similarly, we’ve learned more about the role big data has played in the 2016 election, especially on the social media …
Continue ReadingFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed recent revelations that a data research firm inappropriately accessed and harvested personal data on 50 million Facebook users in the run up to the 2016 presidential election today.
The Facebook CEO denied culpability for the …
Continue ReadingRevelations continue to be made about Facebook’s relationship with a data research company that bills itself as a company that help sway votes and win elections for politicians all over the world.
Cambridge Analytica, a subsidiary of Strategic Communications Laboratory, …
Continue ReadingFacebook announced the departure of Alex Stamos, its chief information security officer yesterday. Stamos has been with the company since 2015. His departure comes as the company struggles with a rapidly-growing problem over the role it played in Russian …
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Bob Mercer was raised in New Mexico in the 1960’s. While in high school, he was able to work his way into a job at a nearby Air Force weapons lab writing computer programs. He once showed superiors at the …
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