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Mark Zuckerberg Sent An Apology Letter About Myanmar. These NGOs Called It “Grossly Insufficient.”

Facebook’s CEO is expected to testify in front of US senators on Tuesday. At least one may ask about his company’s role in spreading hate speech in a country that’s been beset by ethnic conflict.
Ryan Mac • 1 hour ago

Uber Has Acquired Jump And Officially Joined The Dockless Bike Wars

"We’re excited to begin our next chapter and to play a significant part in the transition of Uber to a multi-modal platform," Jump CEO Ryan Rzepecki said.
Davey Alba

Palantir Had No Policy On Social Media Data Collection Prior To 2015

The secretive data analysis company had only an “ad hoc” approach to handling social media data at the same time as others, such as Cambridge Analytica, relied on dodgy methods to collect user data.
William Alden

We Talked To Teens Who Quit Social Media

Adults talk a big game about #deletefacebook or taking a break from Twitter, but true digital natives actually know how to take a break for their own mental health.
Katie Notopoulos

YouTube Kids Is Going To Release A Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version Of Its App

YouTube will approve all channels allowed to post, a source told BuzzFeed News, giving parents a firewall against an algorithm that's often proved lacking.
Alex Kantrowitz

Facebook Has A Two-Tiered Privacy System That Favors Its Leaders

Why is a privacy feature used by Facebook's CEO not available to normal users?
Alex Kantrowitz

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: “I Take Responsibility For This”

"As we find more Cambridge Analyticas, we’re going to find a comprehensive way to put them out and make sure people see them. So far, we don’t have another clear case to share.”
Alex Kantrowitz

Was Marc Jacobs' Chipotle Proposal An Ad?

The fashion designer proposed with a flash mob...inside a Chipotle. #Ad?
Katie Notopoulos

People Couldn’t Log In To Tinder To Cancel Their Dates Because Of Facebook

Tinder users were locked out from their accounts due to a “Facebook login loop” and started freaking out.
Nicole Nguyen

Facebook Now Says Cambridge Analytica Accessed Up To 87 Million People's Data

Cambridge Analytica accessed tens of millions more user profiles than previously reported.
Alex Kantrowitz

The Shooting At YouTube Showed How Bad Twitter’s Misinformation Problem Is

Twitter is the beating heart of breaking news. But its usefulness is offset considerably by a growing chorus of trolls, hoaxers, and irresponsible commentators. And it's only getting worse.
Charlie Warzel

Grindr Will Stop Sharing Users' HIV Data With Other Companies

The popular gay dating app made the announcement late Monday, but also said that it was being unfairly targeted. "It's being conflated with Cambridge Analytica," Grindr's chief security officer said.
Azeen Ghorayshi

Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data

A data analysis conducted by an outside research firm, and independently verified by BuzzFeed News, shows that a popular gay dating app is sharing its users’ HIV status with two other companies. (Update: Late on Monday Grindr said it would stop sharing this information.)
Azeen Ghorayshi

China Just Announced It's Imposing Tariffs On 128 Products From The US

China announced new tariffs on 128 products imported from the US in response to President Donald Trump's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported into the country.
Michelle Broder Van Dyke

The EPA Chief’s Nice Apartment Deal Is Now At The Center Of A Growing Ethical Storm

“There’s so much drama going on with this story,” an EPA ethics lawyer said.
Zahra Hirji

Sen. Ed Markey Says "Congress Must Act" When Facebook Fails To Maintain Safety On Its Platform

A new hint at congressional intervention after BuzzFeed News reveals Facebook's internal "The Ugly" memo to the public.
Alex Kantrowitz

Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed

Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
Ryan Mac

A Christian Publisher Was Running The Same Malicious Code That Newsweek Media Group Used For An Ad Fraud Scheme

Newsweek Media Group and Christian Media Corporation both have close ties to a controversial religious leader and the university he founded.
Craig Silverman

Apple Just Released A New iPhone Battery Health Feature

In iOS 11.3, available now, Apple is releasing a beta version of a new performance settings option called “iPhone Battery Health.”
Nicole Nguyen

A Growing Facebook Group Advocates For People Being Barefoot In Public. Here's All You Need To Know About Them.

"Barefoot Is Legal" is a growing community on social media hoping to destigmatize being barefoot everywhere. Its members have their facts and memes. And they're ready to recruit.
Tanya Chen

Facebook Must Decide Whether It Will Refurbish Its Facade Or Rebuild Its Service

Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox told BuzzFeed News, “We’re going through our tools and approach with a fine-toothed comb.”
Alex Kantrowitz

The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Wanted His New Company To Work With Trump Campaign’s Manager

"We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data.”
Ryan Mac

Facebook Is Getting Grilled In India As Elections Draw Near

The world's largest democracy wants some answers.
Pranav Dixit

A Friendly Reminder That Instagram Uses All Your Facebook Data

Instagram = Facebook, people.
Katie Notopoulos

Apple Wants Its New $329 iPad To Lure Students Away From Chromebooks

The new iPad starts at $299 for schools and $329 for consumers. It has Apple pencil support, and it's designed specifically to be used in the classroom.
Nicole Nguyen

Google's Waymo Just Unveiled An Electric, Completely Self-Driving Jaguar

Some 20,000 of the luxury cars are scheduled to be built by 2021.
Alex Kantrowitz

Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.

It’s a moment that forces us, collectively, to step back and think about what we sacrificed for a more convenient and connected world.
Charlie Warzel

Here’s How To Know If Your Employer Can Download Your Slack DMs

Slack recently made it easier for its paying customers to access data in private channels and direct messages. Here’s how to see if your employer has the option to read your private messages.
Caroline O'Donovan

FTC Is Investigating Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica

“The FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook.”
Katie Notopoulos

A UK Privacy Watchdog Is Searching Cambridge Analytica's Office As Its Scandal Fallout Deepens

"Please can I be absolutely clear: we did not use any GSR data in the work we did in the 2016 US presidential election," Cambridge Analytica acting CEO Alexander Tayler said in an email to press.
Alex Kantrowitz

Why Nothing Is Going To Happen To Facebook Or Mark Zuckerberg

You got mad, but Facebook chugs on.
Alex Kantrowitz

Craigslist Just Took Personal Ads Offline After Congress Passed An Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill

This week, Congress passed the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act, which critics say puts sex workers in harm’s way and could even threaten freedom of speech online.
Caroline O'Donovan

Apple Just Proposed 13 New Emojis With Disabilities

Get ready for emoji hearing aids, service animals, and prosthetic limbs.
Ellen Cushing

It Sure Looks Like Elon Musk Just Deleted Tesla And SpaceX’s Facebook Pages

Moments after joking "what's Facebook?" on Twitter, Elon Musk deleted the Facebook pages for two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
Caroline O'Donovan

The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted To Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”

Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, recently came clean about his role in creating the controversial data mining outfit. BuzzFeed News has obtained communications that show what he was thinking when he went about creating a similar company to Cambridge Analytica and why being “evil pays more.”
Ryan Mac

Mark Zuckerberg: "I’m Not Sure We Shouldn’t Be Regulated"

The Facebook CEO said he'd be open to regulation in an interview with CNN.
Alex Kantrowitz

Arizona's Governor Just Suspended Uber's Self-Driving Tests After Fatal Collision

Five days after police released exterior and interior video of a self-driving Uber vehicle fatally colliding with a woman in Tempe, Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey shut down Uber's self-driving program in the state indefinitely.
Caroline O'Donovan

Here's How Facebook Got Into This Mess: A Timeline

A data firm collected tens of millions of people’s Facebook data without their consent. Here’s how that happened.
Nicole Nguyen

Facebook's Board Said It Supports Zuckerberg And Sandberg In The Cambridge Analytica Crisis

As the furor over the controversial data firm's abuse of Facebook data raged on, its suddenly embattled top brass received a full-throated endorsement Wednesday afternoon.
Joseph Bernstein

A Gun Demo YouTube Channel With 24 Million Views Is Moving To Pornhub

InRange TV said in a Facebook post Wednesday that YouTube's ban on videos that promote firearms means the social platform is not a "safe harbor for a wide variety of views and subject matter."
Leticia Miranda

Facebook Has Blocked Ad Targeting By Sexual Orientation

The move has left organizations offering services to the LGBT community unable to directly target their audiences.
Alex Kantrowitz

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Addressed Facebook's Cambridge Analytica Scandal

"This was a breach of trust," Zuckerberg said.
Alex Kantrowitz

India Just Warned Mark Zuckerberg That It Won’t Tolerate Foreign Firms Using Facebook To Influence Elections

India's IT minister also accused the main opposition party of having links with Cambridge Analytica.
Pranav Dixit

If You're Not Ready To Delete Facebook, Here's How To Limit The Data You Give It

How to take control of your personal information, if deleting Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram isn’t realistic.
Nicole Nguyen

Uber And Lyft Won't Let Me Remove All My Credit Cards And I'm Not Cool With It

When I feared my Uber account was hacked, the app wouldn't allow me to remove my credit card.
Venessa Wong

These Men Helped Create Cambridge Analytica. Here Is Their New, Very Similar Startup.

Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.” Two of his associates who also helped build that tool have been quietly building another company to analyze and influence human behavior.
Ryan Mac

You Should Really Look At Your Facebook Third-Party App Settings Right Now

You may be unwittingly handing over lots of personal information to outside companies through Facebook. Here’s how to see what you’re giving up and how to change your settings.
Nicole Nguyen

An Autonomous Uber Vehicle Struck And Killed A Woman In Arizona

Police in Tempe, Arizona, are investigating a fatal crash in which a woman was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle.
Caroline O'Donovan

Here’s How A “Poop Cult” With 58,000 Followers Set Off A Facebook War

“I'm proud of being a leader of a poop cult,” Jillian Mai Thi Epperly once joked to fans of her signature recipe: a fermented slurry of salted cabbage that produces “waterfalls” of diarrhea. Here's the wild story of how she convinced thousands to believe her dangerous science, and how a grassroots movement shut her down when Facebook wouldn't.
Nidhi Subbaraman
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