The Verge 2018 tech report card: Facebook

as informed in Facebook had a catastrophic yearDespite those efforts, Facebook had a catastrophic year. Facebook began the year with a major change: shifting the balance of posts in the News Feed away from publishers and back toward friends. Despite the scandals, Facebook remains an extremely wealthy companyThese events — and many I haven't mentioned here, but which I chronicle in a daily newsletter — took their toll. Facebook remains an extremely wealthy company, and has many talented employees doing their best to shore up its weaknesses. But a year in which the company promised to turn a corner saw Facebook repeatedly tripping over its shoelaces.

This Facebook privacy warning is a hoax that's not worth sharing, local tech expert says

-- There's another message going around Facebook that may sound serious to some, but according to tech experts, it's fake. "It's basically telling people it's going to make all their private profiles public, and anyone on the internet can see their personal information that`s posted to Facebook," Kelso said. However, Kelso said that's not going to happen. The message also says Facebook is becoming a public company when it already is, and being a public company has nothing to do with your information possibly being shared. "People who receive this message should understand a public company doesn't mean your information is going to be out there," Kelso said.

From Facebook failure to Apple's fight: How tech changed in 2018

As it stated in Even after Facebook, Apple , You-Tube and others took down Jones' content in early August, Twitter said his posts had not violated the company's policies. : Social media companies demonstrated they could barely be trusted with our data and were still trying to get a handle on all of their issues. Juul has since suspended its social media promotions.But the damage has been done. Over the last decade, the once prominent web browser became irrelevant after Google released Chrome, a speedier and more secure web browser. Then late last year, Mozilla released a redesign of Firefox with thoughtful privacy features and much faster browsing speeds.

Facebook isn't a tech company — let's stop calling it that

"Senator, we run ads." That's what Mark Zuckerberg told Senator Orrin Hatch earlier this year during his congressional testimony when asked to describe Facebook's business model. Hatch knew that it was time for us to stop referring to Facebook as a tech company. Facebook runs ads based on the information it has collected about you. Companies that run ads can't say a car gets 40 miles per gallon unless it's true.

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