Sprawling Iranian influence operation globalizes tech’s war on disinformation
The Iranian effort dated to 2011 and had ties to state media operations in that country, Facebook said, involving hundreds of accounts on both Facebook...
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one
The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the last year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved...
Get ready: Your Twitter followers are about to drop
The move by Twitter to purge fake accounts is the latest in a series of hard choices that the company is making to prioritize cleaning...
FBI, SEC and, FTC join Justice department in investigation of Facebook’s data sharing
Representatives for the FBI, the SEC and the FTC have joined the Department of Justice in its inquiries about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and the...
How merchants quietly use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews
A Washington Post examination found the majority of reviews on some popular products, such as Bluetooth headphones and speakers, appeared to violate Amazon’s policies, including...
Facebook hackers likely hit most users
"Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we've seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped," the company...