With over 1 billion users logging on across the world, moderating content on Facebook is no small task. What stays and what goes has been the center of a number of recent controversies, the most recent being outrage over the growing number of pages, images, and posts degrading women and trivializing domestic violence.
Mark Zuckerberg’s 501(c)(4) organization, FWD.us, took another political blow last week when two key donors publicly left the super PAC. Focused on the expansion of the H1-B visas, FWD.us recently launched a series of advertisements featuring lawmakers pushing for immigration reform.
The fight for online privacy rights in California took a major blow this month as AB 1291, or the “Right to Know Act of 2013,” became a two-year bill, essentially halting all action until January 2014. Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal’s Right to Know Act would have made California the first state…
In January, Facebook released Graph search, a function designed to allow users to tap into the vast amount of user information to search for specific results among friends based on specific criteria.
Despite opposition from major Internet companies like Facebook and Google, the state Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would require social networking sites to remove identifying information from a user’s profile…
The NYPD’s recent employment of Facebook Facial Recognition raises privacy concerns, with advocates weary of potential abuse from Social Policing.
Are Facebook posts an extension of free speech? The consumer advocacy organization, Public Citizen Litigation Group, adamantly argues that they are and ordering someone to remove…
