As per The Guardian, Facebook makes it hard for users to delete their accounts, instead of pushing them towards “deactivation” of their account, which eventually leaves all personal data on the company’s servers.
From taking action on potential past abuse to putting stronger protections in place to prevent future abuse, Facebook has said it has chalked out a roadmap for its “future” after being rocked by a data breach scandal. Improper use of the data is explicitly against...
Acton, whose much-acclaimed product was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for a whopping Dollars 16 billion, took to the microblogging platform Twitter and said “It is time”.
“The challenge is there are so many vulnerabilities we don’t yet understand and so many different pieces that can break or be gamed or manipulated when it comes to fake news”, Menczer said.
Twitter said it started working on the new bookmarks tool past year. On iOS, at least, we have seen the redesigned Share tab in testing for the past couple of weeks, with the official rollout taking place on all mobile platforms this week.
Some analysts see such moves as a hedge for US -based TV distributors such as Comcast against popular online streamers that are draining eyeballs from traditional television.
The indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller Friday laid out the various charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for using social media to meddle with the presidential election.