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Facebook leverages artificial intelligence for suicide prevention
Introducing the New Privacy Basics | Facebook Newsroom
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Facebook is testing News Feed-style ads inside Messenger
Facebook takes aim at ‘fake news’ with new ‘trending’ formula
Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You
We live in an era of increasing automation. Machines help us not only with manual labor but also with intellectual tasks, such as curating the news we read and calculating the best driving directions. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments. We’ve […]
Facebook’s Stumbles Expose Flaws in Its Plan to Rule Advertising
Last week, Facebook said it found flaws in the metrics it reported to advertisers—the measurements by which those advertisers judge the success of their ad campaigns on the platform. The company said it overstated the reach of Facebook Pages and Instant Articles, as well as its count of referrals to apps from ads. This admission […]
It took only 36 hours for these students to solve Facebook’s fake-news problem
Facebook is facing increasing criticism over its role in the 2016 US presidential election because it allowed propaganda lies disguised as news stories to spread on the social-media site unchecked. The spreading of false information during the election cycle was so bad that President Barack Obama called Facebook a “dust cloud of nonsense.” And Business […]