What the Tech? Has Your Facebook Account Been Hacked or Cloned?
Facebook accounts aren’t just hacked, they’re cloned. Someone creates a new profile using your name and photo, then sends friend requests to people you know.
What the Tech? Facebook Sued on Claim It Matched Names with Faces without Permission
Facebook’s parent company is being sued for allegedly matching names with faces, without permission.
Social Media Post Sparks Racial Tension in Marengo Co.
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A social media post sparks controversy — and causes racial tension in the Marengo County town of Sweet Water. Some black people are upset about a Facebook post that suggested hanging people in public — as a way to stop crime. “I’m concerned about the racial and divisive language that was used in this post,”…
What the Tech? What is the Metaverse?
We’ve heard a lot about the Metaverse in recent weeks. Facebook changed its company name to Meta, a few years after spending billions of dollars on the virtual reality platform Oculus. So what is the Metaverse? And who wants to go? The Metaverse is a virtual world where people interact with one another. Sort of like life inside a video game….
Facebook Changing Its Corporate Name to “Meta”
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that his company’s corporate name will change to “Meta,” to emphasize its “metaverse” vision.
What the Tech? What Facebook Does with Posts That Will Make You Angry
Facebook knows which side you’re on politically based on posts you like and friends you interact with. So Facebook feeds you more of that content.
What the Tech? Surviving the Facebook Outage
While a few people seemed worried if not upset, others told me it might actually be a good thing to live without those social networks for a while.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage
FILE – In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly…
Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety
In this Sept. 16, 2021, photo provided by CBS, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen talks with CBS’ Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes,” in an episode that aired Sunday, Oct. 3. (Robert Fortunato/CBS News/60 Minutes via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s…
Two Auburn Professors Want to Identify “Bloody Sunday” Marchers
Two Auburn University professors want to use social media to help identify people who took part in “Bloody Sunday” in 1965.
