Enlarge (credit: Jens Buettner/picture alliance) Wish 2021 had been a better year? Facebook probably does, too. The company has long been maligned by politicians, media observers, and consumer advocates, but it wasn’t until 2021 that it felt like the tide truly began to turn. Though Facebook had faced scandals in the past, from Cambridge Analytica […]
Enlarge / Facebook/Meta wants its metaverse to be at the center of nearly everything, including work. (credit: Facebook ) Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the virtual-reality fueled future could bring new privacy risks to our homes and workplaces, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said. Last month, Zuckerberg announced that he would focus his company on […]
Enlarge / Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on October 5, 2021. Haugen left Facebook in May and provided internal company documents about Facebook to journalists and others, alleging that Facebook consistently chooses profit over safety. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified […]
As you’ve probably heard by now, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down on Monday for what is, as of this writing, the company’s longest outage since 2008. The reason for the blackout is still unknown, but the longer it went on the more folks wondered if the sites were out temporarily… or gone entirely. As in, permanently […]