Nick Clegg says Facebook is ‘pleased’ with historic tax deal, even if it means paying more October 9, 2021 Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs, said today the social media giant welcomes the corporate tax agreement that 140 countries around the world agreed this week. “We are pleased to see an emerging international consensus,” Clegg said in a statement sent to City A.M. this afternoon. Under the agreement, countries would enact a [...]
Facebook down again: How persistent is the problem and which sites crash the most? October 9, 2021 Facebook and Instagram were down again for millions of users across the UK last night. The platforms apologised on Twitter for the outage, doing so for the second time this week after another, prolonged down time on Monday. Websites go down all the time from more serious issues like cyber attacks to problems in-house, with [...]
Facebook, Instagram and Messenger again down for millions of users around the world October 8, 2021 Facebook and Instagram confirmed this evening that users are having problems accessing services for a second time in a week. The social media giants have apologised to users who are unable to refresh their home pages, though the outage appears to be less widespread than on Monday. our apps and products. “We’re working to get [...]
Facebook’s artificial intelligence catches little offending content, says whistleblower October 6, 2021 Whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in a congressional hearing that “Facebook’s AI systems only catch a very tiny minority of offending content. And best case scenario, and the case of something like hate speech, at most they will ever get 10 to 20 percent.” Watch the full report.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Facebook extends users’ stay to drive advertising October 6, 2021 During a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing last night, in which U.S. lawmakers pounced on Facebook, whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how the social media giant entices users to extend their stay on the site, giving them ample opportunity to advertise to them. Watch the full report.
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 [...]