When asked to head Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group — to supercharge the world’s biggest social network with an AI makeover — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated. It was not that the ...

In an excerpt from Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose its Harmful Secrets, Jeff Horwitz reveals how the company came to rely on artificial intelligence. The following is excerpted ...

In 2019, Facebook took down on average close to 2 billion fake accounts per quarter. Fraudsters use these fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. It’s a lucrative business that can ...

Facebook Pages are being redesigned. The social network announced today a significant change to the Facebook Page experience for creators and public figures, which includes a new look-and-feel, ...

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Chasing fake accounts on social networks is a high-tech game of cat and mouse, and as soon as one troll is down, another one pops up. But Facebook has revealed that it has a new trick up its sleeve to ...

Facebook is out today with a major update to Facebook Pages that includes removing “Likes,” an all-new layout for the UI, a dedicated News Feed, simpler navigation, refreshed admin controls for ...

A three-year Media Matters study of engagement data for Facebook pages that regularly post about U.S. news and politics found that right-leaning pages earned more total interactions than either ...

Sketchy Facebook pages impersonating businesses are nothing new, but a flurry of recent scams is particularly brazen. A handful of verified Facebook pages were hacked recently and spotted slinging ...

Hackers have taken over large verified Facebook pages and disguised them as official accounts representing Meta and Google. Credit: Bob Al-Greene / Mashable If you see a verified page, complete with ...