Facebook accused of being ‘morally bankrupt’ at whistleblower Frances Haugen Senate hearing October 5, 2021 Whistleblower Frances Haugen is testifying against Facebook before the US Senate, and has accused the firm of putting “astronomical profits before people” and said it “harms children.” Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, began her testimony by saying: “I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.” During the committee hearing, Senator Blumenthal, [...]
Mark Zuckerberg loses $6bn in Facebook selloff spree following global outage October 5, 2021 Mark Zuckerberg has lost $6bn in a Facebook selloff spree that followed in the wake of a massive server outage yesterday, as well as accusations against the social media giant in relation to children’s interests through its flagship product Instagram. Zuckerberg came down a notch on the richest man’s list as Facebook’s stocks plummeted 4.9 [...]
Facebook shaken after its longest downtime in years with billions of users impacted October 5, 2021 Social media platform Facebook has come back up after suffering a six hours long outage crippling its nearly 3bn users globally. The technical glitch affected Whatsapp and Instagram too, both owned by Facebook. According to Downdetector, a portal that keeps track of major service outages, this was the longest lasting downtime reported by Facebook since [...]
The day 3.5bn people lost access: Facebook blames global outage on ‘configuration change’ October 5, 2021 Facebook cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company’s 3.5bn users from accessing its social media and messaging services. Watch the full report.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp ‘start to come back online’ October 5, 2021 Social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are starting to come back online, after a major outage meant millions couldn’t use their platforms for most of the night. In a very bad day for parent company Facebook, its shares closed 4.9 per cent lower on Wall Street, having plummeted as much as 5.74 per cent [...]
Pressure mounts on Facebook and Nick Clegg as whistleblower does not hold back October 4, 2021 Facebook and its vice president of policy and public affairs, Nick Clegg, are increasingly under pressure as a whistleblower has come forward, making a range of damaging claims. Firstly, Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s elections in a moneymaking move, the whistleblower claims. [...]
Nick Clegg refutes anticipated whistleblower claim that Facebook contributed to Capitol attack October 3, 2021 Former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has written a 1500 word internal memo to Facebook’s staff readying them for an expected whistleblower claim that the company contributed to the January 6 Capitol riot in Washington DC, denouncing it as “misleading”. Clegg, who now heads up the social media giant as its vice-president of global [...]
Facebook hits pause on new Instagram app for children after fierce criticism September 28, 2021 Instagram has hit pause on a new app it is creating for kids, the photo-sharing service owned by Facebook said late last night UK time. It’s a decision that comes amid growing opposition for the project. Watch the full report.
CMA extends deadline to probe Facebook’s $400m Giphy deal September 10, 2021 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today extended the deadline of its investigation into Facebook’s $400m acquisition of Giphy until December 2021, according to the CMA website. The changes to the schedule of the regulator’s investigation follows criticism levelled at it by the social media giant Facebook after the CMA said it may force [...]
Facebook looking to expand into new London office space September 10, 2021 Facebook is readying to grow its London presence with plans to move into a new office block near its current Brock Street base. The tech giant is reportedly looking to move into all of the space at 1 Triton Square, which is owned by British Land. Media company Dentsu Aegis had signed a prelet on [...]