Facebook suspends another data analytics firm after CNBC discovers it was using tactics like Cambridge Analytica

• Data analytics firm CubeYou used personality quizzes clearly labeled for "non-profit academic research" to help marketers find customers.
  
• One of its quizzes, "You Are What You Like" which also goes by "Apply Magic Sauce," states it is only for "non-profit academic research that has no con

Nearly 1 out of 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook account over privacy concerns, study says

• Kif Leswing 6hrs ago
  • 9% of Americans say they have deleted their Facebook account altogether over privacy concerns, according to a new study. 
    
    
  • [b]35%

I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.

When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn’t expect to see much. My profile is sparse, I rarely post anything on the site, and I seldom click on ads. (I’m what some call )
But when I opened my file, it was like opening Pandora’s box.
With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had

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Neatly-structured and approachable looks
The application features a simple and intuitive user interface, its main functions and features being quite evident to anyone, no matter the prior experience with similarly-purposed tools.

The main window of Facebook Video Downloader lets you paste the links corresponding to the targeted movies, after which you can begin adjusting various output preferences in order to save the file to the p

Instagram and Facebook experienced a brief outage Thursday due to 'configuration change'

The common theme of social media outages is to jump on another network to vent.
As with nearly every Facebook and Instagram outage, users headed to Twitter on Thursday with the hashtag #InstagramDown quickly becoming one of the top trending topic in the United States. 
Facebook started having problems at around 5:30 p.m. ET, with issues popping up across Facebook proper, and Facebook-owned sites Messeng

Tool lets people get back to websites, Meta says – but also lets it use that history for advertising

Facebook is rolling out a new tool that lets it track the links users click on.

The new system, called “link history”, is a catalogue of websites that people have visited within Facebook. That is stored in one location and visitors can navigate back to it to see where they have clicked.

Facebook is marketing the new feature as a way of storing links that might otherwise be lost or forgot