A slew of policy changes this week at Facebook show how the social media giant can act decisively on pressing public policy matters — when it chooses to.
More than 45 civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign, came together to urge Facebook to protect civil rights and address discrimination on its platform.
People linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll group indicted by the United States for its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, are laying the groundwork to do the same in 2020, new information released by Facebook on Monday suggests.
Hundreds of millions of people in India depend on farming for their livelihoods, but many of them struggle with losing crops to disease, getting them to market or achieving the right price when they do. Several startups are trying to change that.
Kik was about to shut down, as it announced earlier, but it has now been bought by a holding company, MediaLab, which owns another anonymous messaging app called Whisper.
Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are Google's latest smartphones and they can be unlocked by facial recognition. But you can also unlock your phone with your eyes closed, Google confirmed.
