The
Guardian, 13
December 2018:
Journalists working as
factcheckers for Facebook have
pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying
the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to
combat misinformation.
Current and former
Facebook factcheckers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration
with outside reporters has produced minimal results and that they’ve lost trust
in Facebook, which has repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the
impacts of their work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used
an antisemitic
narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same kind of propaganda
factcheckers regularly debunk – should be a deal-breaker.
“They’ve essentially
used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of
Snopes, a factchecking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re
not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves
look good and passing the buck … They clearly don’t care.”….
“Why should we trust
Facebook when it’s pushing the same rumors that its own factcheckers are
calling fake news?” said a current Facebook factchecker who was not authorized
to speak publicly about their news outlet’s partnership….
“Working with Facebook makes us look bad,”
added the journalist, who has advocated for an end to the partnership…..
ABC
News, 15
December 2018:
Facebook said a bug had
exposed private photos of up to 6.8 million users, the latest in a string of
glitches that have caused regulators around the world to investigate the social
media giant's privacy practices.
The bug allowed some
1,500 applications to access private photos for 12 days ending September 25,
Facebook said.
"We're sorry this
happened," it said in a blog targeted at developers who build apps for its
platform.
Facebook said the bug
was now fixed.
The problem is the
latest in a string of security and privacy issues that have caused complaints
from users and led to investigations by regulators and politicians.
The issues include the
massive Cambridge Analytica scandal and a security breach that affected nearly 30 million users.
The company said it
would send an alert through Facebook to notify users whose photos may have been
exposed by the latest issue.
The alert will direct
them to a link where they will be able to see if they have used any apps that
the bug allowed to access private photos.
Facebook shares fell 1.2
per cent early trading, compared to a 0.9 per cent decline in the Nasdaq
composite index......
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