Fitness company CrossFit has left Facebook after it deleted a popular group “without warning or explanation” in a move that could indicate mounting backlash against the social media giant over privacy concerns, not to mention censorship concerns as well. Facebook’s deletion and reinstatement of a meal plan group with 1.65 million users demonstrated to CrossFit Inc. that Facebook was abusing... 

Facebook has uncovered an extensive Israeli-run political influence campaign that has been ‘changing reality according to clients’ wishes’ targeting elections in African, Latin America and Asian nations for years. The social media platform has shut down 65 Facebook accounts, 161 pages, 23 groups, 12 events, and four Instagram accounts run out of Israel, citing its policy on “coordinated... 

The popular instant messaging system WhatsApp—owned by Facebook—has been revealed as an Israeli spyware platform using malicious code from the Jews-only state’s infamous NSO Group, according to a report in the Financial Times. According to the FT, the security breach in WhatsApp—which is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide—was discovered in May this year. Hackers install surveillance software... 

The solution is simple, Italy should BAN Facebook until the problem is resolved and those pages are unbanned or alternatively you can just ban them until the elections are over. It is not Facebook’s place to ban, censor and influence the election outcome in foreign countries and there should be severe repercussions. Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers... 

The religious leader and activist, who earlier compared Jews to termites and referred to the “Synagogue of Satan”, was removed from the platform last week for inciting hatred. Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam religious group, has fought back against his recent Facebook ban, mentioning the “Satanic Jews” in a defiant speech. The 86-year-old minister,... 

Facebook has recently banned a number of prominent right-wing figures as “dangerous individuals”, with the recent restrictions applying on Instagram as well. Speaking to Sputnik, a cyber security analyst and former US congressional candidate shed light on what appears to be political bias on the part of the Silicon Valley giants. On 3 May, US President Donald Trump directed criticism at... 

Yesterday was not a good day for free speech and democracy. Paul Joseph Watson and Milo Yiannopoulos were censored, silenced and banned from Facebook and Instagram and Laura Loomer was removed from Instagram as well. Earlier, Alex Jones, Tommy Robinson and others have been deplatformed in the same way. The removal was well planned and mainstream media was tipped off in advance. Brave, bold, important... 

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp unexpectedly blocked a channel belonging to the Spanish left-wing Podemos Party less than a week before the general election, sparking accusations of meddling. The party’s account was blocked on Monday following a political debate held the day before. Podemos Communications Secretary Juanma del Olmo was the first to report the blocking. “We have... 

The Big Bang Theory actor took aim at PewDiePie after Facebook recommended subscribing to the Swede’s fan group page, in what Wheaton saw was a fault in Facebook algorithms, around the same time as a petition popped up on change.org calling to take Pewds down from YouTube, where he is competing for dominance over the Indian studio T-Series. Actor Wil Wheaton, who famously voices Jonathan Rook... 

The Trump regime is finally suing social media giant Facebook for being racist! Yaaaay finally! Something is being done, told you so but you people didn’t wanna listen, we told you numerous times Trump was just playing 4D intergalactic ULTRA HD CHESS! You see?? He was just playing chess all along, he was light-years ahead of us simpletons, after all his IQ is 160!!!!!!!! He waited until the... 

The New Zealand government is now looking at banning semi-automatic weapons following the killing of 49 Muslim worshipers at two Christchurch mosques, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said because the white terrorist had bought 5 guns legally. Yeah sure so let’s ban guns in New Zealand now… and then they wonder why people are into conspiracy theories and calling these attacks “false... 

Health professionals and policymakers see vaccination skeptics as a public menace, but forcing Facebook, YouTube, Amazon and others to shut them down has its own hazards, and probably won’t work either. From giving a hero’s welcome in Congress to the Ohio teen who defied his mother to get his jab, to a slew of editorials, to panicked statements from public officials about the return of measles... 

The UK is rolling out a draconian new ‘harmful content’ policy that will punish social media with massive fines if they fail to remove ill-defined “hate speech”, “misinformation”, and “problematic content” quickly enough, RT.com writes. An “independent tech regulator” would have the power to impose fines amounting to as much as 4 percent of a company’s value if Facebook, Google,... 

Over the past three months, I interviewed a dozen current and former employees of Cognizant in Phoenix. All had signed non-disclosure agreements with Cognizant in which they pledged not to discuss their work for Facebook — or even acknowledge that Facebook is Cognizant’s client. The shroud of secrecy is meant to protect employees from users who may be angry about a content moderation decision... 

Facebook has suspended several accounts operated by Maffick Media without prior warning, right after CNN ran a report about the company’s perceived ties to the Kremlin. In what seems to be a new step in the social media giant’s fight against perceived ‘Russian propaganda’, Facebook took down, without prior notice, several pages offering video content. The social media network said...