The social media giant Facebook is working tirelessly to maximize the use of crypto-currencies and large distributed registry (DLT) technology. The company’s Blockchain division is actively seeking talent to complement its team, despite the downward trend in the value of Bitcoin and altcoins. Projects for Blockchain and digital currencies? Facebook goes out of its way to fuel its […]
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Federal prosecutors in New York have opened a criminal investigation into Facebook’s practices of sharing users’ data with other companies, sometimes without the knowledge of its users, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. According to the newspaper, a grand jury in New York officially demanded “at least two major smart phone manufacturers” to provide […]
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Facebook users have something to be upset about. To access their profile, Facebook has encouraged them to switch to multifactor authentication with their phone number. Not only can anyone get an overview of their profile, but Facebook offers them no other way out. All computer security experts will tell you, the use of the phone […]
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The head of public relations Facebook announced Wednesday leave office, while the social network tries desperately to fight a flood of almost permanent scandals for more than two years. Caryn Marooney, who does not yet have a successor, worked for eight years with the American giant but thinks it was “time to return to (his) […]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once again defended his critically-criticized network on Monday, saying the internet and social networks are being over-criticized for being an indispensable counter-power. “Before the internet (…), if you wanted to draw attention to a subject, you usually had to address politicians or the press, someone with power to spread your message,” […]
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He was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for luring 70 teenagers A Laurentian cyber predator yesterday sentenced to almost seven years in prison was banned from using social media for 20 years after his release. Simon Drouin will be at the dawn of his 60s when he can again navigate on dating sites […]
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After a nightmare year for Facebook, shaken by an almost unbroken flood of controversies, the social network will try to restore confidence in users and investors by publishing annual results on Wednesday. And it will not be easy for the group of Mark Zuckerberg, criticized, among others, for serving as a platform for political manipulation […]
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Mark Zuckerberg once again assured Thursday that Facebook did not sell the personal data of its users, yet another educational exercise designed to respond to the most recurrent criticisms addressed to the social network. “In recent times, many questions have emerged around our business model, which is why I want to clarify how we operate,” […]
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The road from cryptocurrency to deep democratization has reached a new threshold. Recently, the Lite.im portfolio that allows transactions in Facebook and Messenger, has just added a new cryptocurrency in its ecosystem , Bitcoin. Moreover, the famous video game Fortnite has finally shown favor for crypto-currencies dedicated to the purchase of web content. Bitcoin Core integrates Lite.im After ETH, LTC and […]
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, said he was “proud of the progress made” in 2018 to improve the world’s first social network, entangled in a series of resounding scandals for over two years that have undermined user confidence and awakened the attention of the regulators. “For 2018, my personal challenge was to focus on some of […]
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In the face of scandals and a flood of criticism about its use of personal data, Facebook has opened for a few hours Thursday in New York a shop supposed to show how the company is concerned about the privacy of its users. After a similar experience in London in September, the first social network […]
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A security breach has made available to all applications photos posted on Facebook by 6.8 million users for ten days in September, said Friday the social network, which has apologized. The vulnerability, which has been corrected after 12 days, only concerns people who have downloaded one or more of these 1500 or so applications and […]
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Faults were recorded this morning on Facebook and Instagram social networks, as well as the messenger application Messenger. The problems started around 8am. The cause of these service interruptions is unknown. According to the Down Detector website, which lists interruptions, these outages are mainly located in Europe and on the east coast of the United States. […]
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Access to Facebook, the largest social network in the world, was restored after difficulties in North America and Latin America around 18:00 GMT Monday. Asked why this temporary failure occurred, Facebook – which has more than 2.25 billion users worldwide – did not immediately respond. On the coast are the United States as well as […]
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Long awaited, the feature “Unsend”, or “not sent”, will soon appear in the Facebook Messenger application. The feature will give users the ability to remove a message in a 10-minute window after it is sent, as revealed in the iOS version 191.0 notes. “Coming soon: remove a message from a conversation after it has been […]
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