Facebook Streaming Facebook is instituting a "one strike" policy that bans users (for a period) from live-streaming video on its platform if they break Facebook's community standards just one time. The move comes in the wake of the Christchurch massacres, which the perpetrator live-streamed over Facebook. The same restrictions will soon also apply to those who want to post ads on the service. The Verge
With the trade war escalating, anyone else think companies like FB and TWTR will have a record year? They're not even in China to begin with so I figured people would flock to them from the other fang stocks. Netflix too but it's so over valued.
Facebook is reportedly having a tough time recruiting It sounds like Facebook might be having a tough time recruiting after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its two years of crises. On Thursday, CNBC reported that the Silicon Valley giant was running into difficulties in hiring new employees. Would-be workers are turning down job offers at significantly higher rates than those seen before the news broke in March 2018 that political research firm Cambridge Analytica misappropriated tens of millions of Facebook users' data. (Business Insider)
Disease Maps Facebook has rolled out maps to help health organizations stem and respond to outbreaks of disease. The maps show how people are moving between areas in real time—they're similar to maps Facebook was already providing to help NGOs respond to natural disasters. Laura McGorman, policy lead for Facebook's Data for Good team: "We wanted to create tools that could offer substantial life-saving insights." Fortune
CrossFit quits Facebook, calls company ‘utopian socialists’ By Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News May 27, 2019 | 12:14pm Enlarge Image iStockphoto ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY: Snapchat employees abused data access, spied on users Google is tracking your purchases via Gmail Facebook fake account removal doubles to 3 billion in six months CrossFit, the branded workout regimen, accused Facebook of being “utopian socialists” and left the platform after the social network deleted a group dedicated to a diet. The move to quit both Facebook and Instagram came in the wake of the decision to delete “without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan,” a group that advocated a diet aimed at eating “food that is as close to its natural state as possible — free from processing, additives, preservatives and sugar.” The group suspension was later overturned, but CrossFit issued a lengthy statement announcing the end of their presence on the platform. “All activity on CrossFit, Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram accounts was suspended as of May 22, 2019, as CrossFit investigates the circumstances pertaining to Facebook’s deletion of the Banting7DayMealPlan and other well-known public complaints about the social-media company that may adversely impact the security and privacy of our global CrossFit community,” the statement read. The company provided eight “publicly sourced complaints” as the reasons for quitting. “Facebook collects and aggregates user information and shares it with state and federal authorities, as well as security organizations from other countries,” the first reason read. “Facebook collaborates with government security agencies on massive citizen surveillance programs such as PRISM,” CrossFit said in the second reason. “Facebook censors and removes user accounts based on unknown criteria and at the request of third parties including government and foreign government agencies,” it continued. “Facebook collects, aggregates and sells user information as a matter of business. Its business model allows governments and businesses alike to use its algorithmically conjured advertising categories as sophisticated data-mining and surveillance tools.” The company then added that “Facebook’s news feeds are censored and crafted to reflect the political leanings of Facebook’s utopian socialists while remaining vulnerable to misinformation campaigns designed to stir up violence and prejudice.” The statement noted that CrossFit is a “voluntary user of and contributor to this marketplace, can and must remove itself from this particular manifestation of the public square when it becomes clear that such responsibilities are betrayed or reneged upon to the detriment of our community.” “Common decency demands that we do so, as do our convictions regarding fitness, health and nutrition, which sit at the heart of CrossFit’s identity and prescription,” it added.
Survival mode Mark Zuckerberg will live to see another day as Facebook chairman. A shareholder vote to curtail his power failed yesterday. Critics of Zuck had called for more independent oversight of the company given Facebook's recent track record of privacy mishaps and the spread of disinformation. Fortune
Facebook Tracking Facebook has launched a new app that will monitor everything users do on their phones, in exchange for payment. It did this before, of course, getting it into trouble with Apple in particular. This time Facebook is claiming more transparency and security—and the app is only available on Google's Android for now. Fortune
Facebook Currency Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra—what's wrong with "Facebucks"?—has Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Uber and a host of other companies on board. Each will put a reported $10 million into a consortium to govern the virtual coin, which will apparently be unveiled next week. Wall Street Journal