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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. Customs and Border Protection is executing the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants.
The US Senate recently shared over 450 pages of Facebook's responses to questions from Senators, as the company attempted to address the numerous questions CEO Mark Zuckerberg was unable to answer during his April 10 testimony . The testimony focused on the role Facebook played in a number of scandals involving the improper handling of user data, particularly in the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
Two days after the 2016 presidential election, and already dreading partisan food fights over Thanksgiving, 28-year-old Katie Fahey took to Facebook, determined to help fix democracy and keep mashed potatoes from flying. "I'd like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan," she posted on Facebook.
'If Facebook granted Huawei special access to social data of Americans, it might as well have given it directly to the government of China' Amid the uproar over Facebook's admission that it shared user data with Chinese device makers is an undercurrent of tension between the United States and China over technological dominance. Not only was Facebook passing previously undisclosed personal information to other companies, but also one of the dozens of firms involved was Huawei, a Chinese firm flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security risk because of its alleged ties to China's government.
Many have taken to the Reflector's Facebook page to share their feelings - some v oicing concerns against the means used in detaining the illegal immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, and others commending the agents, encouraging the government to "send them all packing," as one reader wrote. More than 300 comments were shared on the Reflector's initial posting of the story on its Facebook page, which was shared by people throughout several states and across North America, stretching into Canada and Mexico.
Despite the founder of the social media platform, Tom Anderson, abandoning it after it "died" in 2009 - when Facebook had more than double its users only two years after it was created, there are still people who use it. Meet Kenneth Scalir, the subject of a Guardian article published on Wednesday and former minor reality TV celebrity who appeared on dating reality television shows in the 1990s and 2000s.
The former head of political consultant Cambridge Analytica is clashing with British lawmakers investigating the use of Facebook data in election campaigns.
Facebook has acknowledged it shared user data with several Chinese handset manufacturers, including Huawei, a company flagged by U.S. intelligence officials as a national security threat, as it faces a fresh wave of allegations over its handling of private data. Chinese firms Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL were among numerous handset makers that were given access to Facebook data in a "controlled" way approved by Facebook, the social media giant's vice president of mobile partnerships, Francisco Varela, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei said Wednesday it has never collected or stored Facebook user data, after the social media giant acknowledged it shared such data with Huawei and other manufacturers. Huawei, a company flagged by U.S. intelligence officials as a national security threat, was the latest device maker at the center of a fresh wave of allegations over Facebook's handling of private data.
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Bottom line: It's more bad news for Facebook as the social network is again accused of privacy violations. But the company has disputed parts of the New York Times' report, and says the situation is very different from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
A decade ago, Colorado entrepreneur and philanthropist Jared Polis made history as the first openly gay man elected as a non-incumbent to Congress. But most voters did not get a glimpse of his longtime partner Marlon Reis until the night Polis won the Democratic primary, when the couple created a sensation by sharing a hug onstage at a victory party.
Facebook's long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a social network built on the viral sharing of user posts. The company's approach, a searchable database of political ads and their sponsors, depends on the company's ability to sort through huge quantities of ads and identify which ones are political.
A solemn tribute from one soldier to another: Chief of Staff John Kelly makes a quiet visit to his son's grave at Arlington accompanied by his wife and President Trump on Memorial Day 'You are going to get fired. Bye Maria.
Last October, federal agents served a search warrant at the home of Matthew Johnston, where they found a cache of weapons and explosive devices and counterfeit items he was using to pose as an immigration officer, according to a federal affidavit. Going to be deleting a lot of people off of Facebook.
New rules requiring political campaigns to verify their identities before getting authorization to buy ads on Facebook are preventing some candidates from getting their message out in the critical last days before June primary elections. And one congressional candidate says it may tip the election to his opponent.
Facebook launched new disclosures regarding political advertisements on the social media platform Thursday. Ads on both Facebook and Instagram will feature a disclosure tag that states who paid for the ad, the company announced in a blog post.
Twitter says it will require U.S. political advertisers to identify themselves and certify that they are in the U.S. by verifying a mailing address. The company says the new rules announced Thursday will apply to any advertising that seeks to influence the outcome of an election.
Former U.S. FBI Director James Comey said that social media companies needed to "worry" about foreign political propaganda on their networks, but he had few ideas on how to counter it. In an interview with Reuters, Comey also said he would be leery of the Federal Bureau of Investigation trying to track propaganda in the United States, let alone take action against it, while acknowledging that it was a major problem for the US political system.
On Sunday, a post was shared on the Oklahoma County Republicans' Facebook page seemingly comparing Democrats to Nazis. The original post was first shared by another page 'Direct to the People,' listing side-by-by comparisons of Nazis and Democrats.