as mentioned in Facebook is working to allow cross-messaging between Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to a report in The New York Times this morning. "We want to build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and private," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. "We're working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks. Facebook has the most users of any other social media platform, and by combining its assets this way, the company could more directly compete with Apple's iMessage and Google's messaging services. ET: Updated to include a statement from Facebook.
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Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly
"Finely targeted digital advertising allows anonymous advertisers with who knows what political agenda to test messages that try to tap into some vulnerability and channel a grievance in some particular direction," said Anthony Nadler, a professor at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania who researches how social networks and ad platforms can assist radicalization and spread disinformation. "I imagine that the more sophisticated white supremacists out there are trying to figure out how to expand their base."Facebook monitors and tracks the locations of users it deems a threat
referring to Facebook monitors and tracks the locations of its users when the company's security team finds that they are making credible threats on its social network, according to a report from CNBC today. But it's unclear exactly who determines what is a credible threat or what criteria a threat has to meet to be deemed credible. Security employees at Facebook can use Facebook's own product to identify and track anyone it believes to be a threat. "Our physical security team exists to keep Facebook employees safe," a Facebook spokesman said in a statement to CNBC. Reportedly, location data didn't turn up anything of value, so Facebook security employees went through the interns' messages.Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store
Facebook stops recruiting for "Research" appAdditionally, Facebook has stopped recruiting new users for "Facebook Research," TechCrunch wrote. Apple previously stopped Facebook from distributing the app to iOS users, but it remains available on Android. "Existing Facebook Research app studies will continue to run," even though Facebook won't recruit more users, TechCrunch wrote. TechCrunch previously detailed the Facebook Research app in an investigation titled "Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them." Starting in 2016, the Facebook Research app for iOS and Android offered users $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for personal data.collected by :Roy Mark
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