Facebook’s oversight board co-chair said Sunday that the platform’s rules are in ‘shambles’ as he explained the panel decided to temporarily maintain the ban on Donald Trump so the site can fix issues before making a permanent ruling. Michael McConnell, who co-chairs the board assigned to look at Facebook’s content moderation decisions, told ‘Fox News … Read more
Facebook’s oversight board co-chair said Sunday that the platform’s rules are in ‘shambles’ as he explained the panel decided to temporarily maintain the ban on Donald Trump so the site can fix issues before making a permanent ruling. Michael McConnell, who co-chairs the board assigned to look at Facebook’s content moderation decisions, told ‘Fox News … Read more
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg passed the buck to Nick Clegg over how to deal with Donald Trump’s social media ban. The former Lib Dem leader, who has been Facebook’s head of global affairs since 2018, will make the final call on whether to reinstate the former US President’s social media accounts. Mr Trump was banned … Read more
Some say that what Facebook does well is to see what the current trending app is and then create its own version or add a feature to its current apps that’s almost a clone of that popular app. Since the Nextdoor neighborhood-based app seems to be having its moment, it was no surprise to learn … Read more
Facebook’s oversight board has temporarily upheld the ban on Trump’s accounts but refused to make a final call on it, instead throwing the controversial decision back to Mark Zuckerberg and giving him another six months to ponder it. The board announced its decision on Wednesday, almost exactly four months since Trump was banned in response … Read more
Facebook’s oversight board has temporarily upheld the ban on Trump’s accounts but thrown the controversial decision back to Mark Zuckerberg, who now has another six months to either announce an end date for the suspension or permanently delete Trump’s pages. The board announced its decision on Wednesday, almost exactly four months since the Capitol riot, which … Read more
Amputee mother tells This Morning she was kicked out of a Facebook group by another mum who said they couldn’t ‘babysit’ or ‘be seen with her’ when she revealed she uses a mobility scooter ahead of a trip to the park Poppy, Cambridge, says she was ostracised online after revealing her disability She had joined Facebook … Read more
You have to give it to Signal for daring to run an ad on Instagram that “exposes” the ad-targeting practices of the latter’s parent company Facebook. However, the social media giant is wise to their ways and has now not only banned the actual ads but they have also disabled Signal’s ad account altogether. The … Read more
A woman has revealed the story of how she lost more than £113,000 to a Facebook fraudster during lockdown following an elaborate scam. Rachel Elwell, 50, from Brownhills, West Midlands, says she is facing bankruptcy after becoming the latest victim of an increasingly popular online scam – ‘romance fraud’. The export manager was contacted by … Read more
Facebook users have shared stories of receiving bans after jokingly calling their friend ‘crazy’, sharing a Smithsonian magazine story and labelling someone ‘sad’. The social media platform is understood to have internal guidelines which are not made public on moderation. In documents seen by The Wall Street Journal moderators are told the sentences that are and … Read more