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Is Facebook Down? Instagram is Down Too.
Is Facebook Down?
Update 10:45 a.m. CST: Users report that Facebook is down. Reports of an outage appeared concentrated in the United States on Down...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads to Washington
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in Washington Thursday to meet with lawmakers and talk about internet regulation.
The company said...
Facebook to train AI systems using police video to combat extremism
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook will work with law enforcement to train its artificial intelligence systems to recognize videos of violent events, part of...
Facebook expands new tool aiming to shrink ‘news deserts’
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is trying to coax "news deserts" into bloom with the second major expansion of...
FTC fines Facebook $5B, adds oversight for privacy mishaps
FTC fines Facebook $5B, adds oversight for privacy mishaps
By MARCY GORDON and BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have fined Facebook...
Facebook’s currency plan gets hostile reception in Congress
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under sharp criticism from senators, a Facebook executive on Tuesday defended the social network's ambitious plan...
Common Council Approves Live Streaming Meetings on Facebook
Marshfield, WI (OnFocus) Common Council voted 8-0 with two aldermen absent to allow its meetings to be broadcast live on Facebook.
Back in March, the...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp back up after massive outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday.
All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were affected by the outage.
Downdetector.com, a site that...
Facebook, Instagram suffer outages
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and is working to resolve...
How Facebook stands to profit from its ‘privacy’ push
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer
At first glance, Mark Zuckerberg's new "privacy-focused vision " for Facebook looks like a transformative mission statement from a...
