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Due to Facebook trust issues, the social media giant was named "The Worst Company of The Year" in a recent poll conducted by Yahoo! In relation to this, several applicants are scared of working at the company since the firm has lost its public trust. Facebook Trust Issues Places Social Media Giant as 'The Worst Company Of The Year' From the Facebook whistle-blower to its rebranding, 2021 seems to have been a terrible year for the social media giant. While the rebranding may assist in the long run, there is still a problem with Facebook's trust. Just a few days ago, a Yahoo Finance poll named Facebook "The Worst Company In 2021." The open-ended survey, which ran from December 4 to 5, was conducted on Survey Monkey through the Yahoo! Finance main page and garnered 1,541 responses, per New York Post. According to Yahoo, Facebook/Meta earned eight percent of the write-in votes, with the social networking giant receiving 50 percent more votes than the runner-up,  » Read More

What does Mark Zuckerberg care about?The 37-year-old tech executive has a wife, two kids, $110bn , and near absolute control over a group of companies – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp – that shape the information, entertainment, and communication of 3 billion people.But in a year that kicked off with those companies playing a major role in fueling a violent and conspiracy-addled riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, and closed with a whistleblower revealing just how much Facebook knew – and concealed from the public – about the damage it was doing to individuals and societies, Zuckerberg has himself seemed remarkably unbothered.Gone is the Zuckerberg who repeated apologies and pledges to take a broader view of Facebook’s responsibility ad nauseum. New Zuck (dare we call him “metaZuck”?) appears to be primarily focused on his super relatable hobbies (electric surfing, fencing, hydrofoiling, boar hunting) and building a fantasy world that he hasn’t managed to mess up – yet.“I just decided to focus more on some of the awesome things we’re building,  » Read More

This year the public saw an alarming side of Facebook, after a huge leak of internal documents revealed the extent of vaccine misinformation and extremism on the platform, a two-tier system of who gets to break the rules, and the toxic effects of Instagram for teens.Digital rights activists around the world have warned about these issues for years, but with the company facing mounting pressure, next year could provide an unprecedented opportunity for action.We spoke to researchers, activists, and tech experts about how Facebook can be reined in 2022 and beyond, and the innovative solutions that could bring about change.RegulationIn the US, the path towards regulation is likely to be a long one. But this year has seen rare bipartisan calls to tighten the rules on big tech.Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects Facebook from lawsuits if users post anything illegal, has once again come under scrutiny. Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights group Color of Change,  » Read More

Times News Facebook followers were recently asked this question: What word or phrase comes to mind when you think of the methamphetamine crisis in this region? Sixty-six people shared their thoughts. This word cloud is representative of those comments. Times News Facebook followers were recently asked this question: What word or phrase comes to mind when you think of the methamphetamine crisis in this region? Sixty-six people shared their thoughts. This word cloud is representative of those comments. WordClouds.com  » Read More

RED ALERT 0:42 ET, Dec 25 2021Updated: 0:45 ET, Dec 25 2021MULTIPLE users have reported hacked Facebook accounts after strange messages were sent from their profiles to their friends.  From what is being reported, the hack causes messages with unverified links. 2Facebook users are reporting that their accounts are being hacked and sending strange messagesCredit: Getty The messages are sent to multiple people in the victim’s friends list. It’s unknown what happens if someone clicks on the link but it’s possible that doing so could infect one’s device with malware or another virus. “Well looks like my Facebook got hacked,” wrote a user on Twitter. “Everyone in my messenger got a message from me saying ‘I saw you in a video.’” “Don’t open it, you’ll get hacked. Just thought I’d warn people.” Another user wrote a similar warning: “Do not reply to any messages on messenger or any Facebook posts.” It’s unknown who’s behind the attack but there are some tips people can take to protect their profiles.  » Read More

Shanna Joseph lit the Kwanzaa Candles as Darryle Moss spoke about Kwanzaa’s Seven Principles as area youth looked on at the 2019 Springfield Citywide Kwanzaa Celebration & Black Wall Street Market taking place at UMass Center in Springfield on December 27th. (Ed Cohen Photo) A Kwanzaa celebration featuring African drumming, poetry and a kinara lighting is slated for Tuesday morning at Springfield City Hall.The ceremony’s keynote speakers include Amilcar Shabazz, a history and Africana studies professor at UMass Amherst, and Demetria Shabazz, an Afro American studies lecturer at UMass Amherst. Mayor Domenic Sarno, joined by the Kwanzaa Collective of Pioneer Valley, will give remarks, the city said in a news release Thursday.Ayanna Crawford, a former Springfield educator and lifelong resident, will serve as the master of ceremonies. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Room 220 at City Hall. A livestream is also available on Springfield’s Facebook page.Kwanzaa, a celebration of life among African-Americans, spans Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, according to the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  » Read More

MINNEAPOLIS -- Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.The mostly white jury deliberated for about four days before finding former Brooklyn Center officer Kim Potter guilty of first-degree and second-degree manslaughter. Potter, 49, faces about seven years in prison on the most serious count under the state's sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors said they would seek a longer term.Judge Regina Chu ordered Potter taken into custody and held without bail and scheduled her to be sentenced on Feb. 18.Potter, who testified that she "didn't want to hurt anybody," looked down without showing any visible reaction when the verdicts were read. As Chu thanked the jury, Potter made the sign of the cross.Potter's attorneys argued against her being held with no bail, saying she was not going to commit another crime or go anywhere."Her remorse and regret for the incident is overwhelming," Potter attorney Paul Engh argued.  » Read More

Netflix has released a new clip for Death to 2021 that pokes fun at the Facebook servers going down, taking some of the world’s most popular social networks offline. The comedy special mixes archival footage and commentary from fictional characters to joke about every shocking event of the last year. The new clip presents some of the stars involved with Death to 2021, including Stockard Channing as Penn Parker, Joe Keery as Duke Goolies, Lucy Liu as Snook Austen, and Diane Morgan as Gemma Nerrick. Duke Goolies is an influencer that recorded a reaction video when Facebook went down but couldn’t post it on social media. Another “tragic” testimony is that of Snook Austen, who claims people felt just like Donald Trump when they couldn’t use social media anymore. Penn Parker adds that, without constant validation, people started to wonder if they really existed. Finally, Gemma Nerrick says that with Facebook down, she spent the day looking to her phone, waiting for messages that never came. You know, just like every day where Facebook is working.  » Read More

Technology|Meta aims for ‘deep compatibility’ with blockchain, according to an internal post.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/technology/meta-facebook-web3-blockchain.htmlAndrew Bosworth, a top Meta executive, urged employees to explore blockchain technology in an internal post on Tuesday.Credit...Christian Charisius/Getty ImagesDec. 22, 2021, 7:51 p.m. ETMeta, Facebook’s parent company, is aiming for “deep compatibility” with blockchain technology, according to an internal post on Tuesday from a top executive.In the note to employees, which was obtained by The New York Times, Andrew Bosworth, who will become Meta’s chief technology officer next year, laid out a vision for the social network to adopt and work with various blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies that have collectively become known as web3.Mr. Bosworth urged caution but said the company should look to adopt the technologies before others, noting that blockchain technology — which are essentially distributed ledger systems — could have “profound impacts on our industry over the next decade.”“My overall guidance is to target a deep compatibility with the blockchain,” he wrote.  » Read More

NEW DELHI: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users, there are apparently at least 39,000 websites designed to trick you into sharing your login details. And these figures have been disclosed by none other than Meta (previously Facebook). Facebook now called Meta is the parent company of WhatsApp and Instagram. Earlier this week, Meta filed a lawsuit in California to disrupt this large-scale phishing campaign. The company has filed the federal lawsuit to "uncover the identities" of a group of people have created these 39,000-plus websites. As per the company, this phishing scheme involves the creation of these websites that impersonate the login pages of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. It adds that scammers use relay service Ngrok to redirect people to their websites in a way that allows them to hide their actions. "This enabled them to conceal the true location of the phishing websites, and the identities of their online hosting providers and the defendants," says the lawsuit When did the phishing attacks startThough exact time of the origin of these attacks is not known,  » Read More