Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by "bad actors" and that five percent of active accounts are fake. The news is disconcerting, but sincerely not so surprising, Facebook announced it recently...
A new political misinformation campaign was uncovered and blocked by Facebook, this time it was not operated by Russia but Israel's Archimedes Group Facebook uncovered and blocked a misinformation campaign powered by Israel' Archimedes Group, the corporation...
Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user's privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected...
Facebook sues South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse and violation of social network's rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to verify if the analytics firm is violating...
The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority fined Facebook $270,000 for the Photo API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has fined Facebook 1.65 million Turkish lira...
Facebook is going to fund academic research on the impact of social media on elections, aimed at preventing manipulation of these platforms. Facebook is committed to preventing manipulation of elections through social media by funding research on the impact...
Experts at security firm SafeGuard reported that Russian Twitter bot activity raised up by 286 percent in the wake of the release of the Mueller Report. Experts at security firm SafeGuard reported that Russian Twitter bot activity raised up by 286 percent...
Researcher discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user data. Researcher Sanyam Jain at GDI foundation discovered eight unsecured databases exposed online that contained approximately...
Other problems for Facebook that admitted to have stored millions of Instagram users' passwords in plaintext Yesterday, Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, the company admitted to have ‘unintentionally’...
Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million...