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The Anti-Defamation League has said that, a year after Facebook banned Holocaust denial from the platform, there remain “cracks in enforcement” that allow deniers to disseminate hate speech. While Facebook has banned certain search terms related to Holocaust denial, others remain available, bringing up video and pages. “There’s still a lot of Holocaust denial on Facebook,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said this week. “We urge the platform to take additional steps to address these cracks in enforcement as well as to ensure that the ban is more consistently applied across the platform.” The ADL noted that content it flagged in several instances as denying the Holocaust had gone untouched by the platform. It also said groups that deal with conspiracy theories, though not Holocaust denial exclusively, also traffic in denial claims. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories By signing up, you agree to the terms “As ADL has explained to Facebook for years, Holocaust denialism is hate speech.  » Read More

Meta (formerly Facebook) on Friday announced a small but important update for Messenger users. Starting next week, Messenger will let users split their bills with friends and family, which can be quite useful in places like restaurants. As announced by Meta in a blog post, the “Split Payments” feature makes it easier to split payments through Messenger. With just a few taps, users can not only invite other people to split a bill, but also set the amount each person will pay. The company behind Messenger says that users will even be able to ask other people in a group for money and check if all the people invited have paid the bill or not. If you’ve struggled with dividing up (and getting paid back for) group dinners, shared household expenses or even the monthly rent, it’s about to get easier. Next week for Messenger fans in the US, we’re starting to test Split Payments, a free and fast way to share the cost of bills and expenses.  » Read More

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Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Facebook is finally making 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) the rule for some of its most-at-risk accounts.It’s a smart move, protecting venerable Facebook users, especially those who are looked to for responsible and accurate information - think journalists, politicians, celebrities, and you'll get the idea. Someone gaining access to any one of these accounts and masquerading as it could have wide-reaching, damaging effects, reported Wired.Why I wonder has this taken so long?Stories of people, in all stations of life, who’ve had critical accounts hacked are all too commonplace. I usually find out when someone sends me a separate email or text exclaiming, “Help! I’ve been hacked!” Worse yet is when they don’t know and I spot the bizarre activity on their Facebook account and send a private note through other channels: “Hey, I think your Facebook’s been hacked.’ 2FA is a simple idea that few people adopt because they see it as annoying or overly complicated.  » Read More

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta removed more than 500 accounts after receiving reports of a fake Swiss biologistFacebook owner Meta Platforms has removed more than 500 accounts linked to an online disinformation network primarily based in China. The accounts had promoted the claims of a fake Swiss biologist called "Wilson Edwards", who alleged the US was meddling in efforts to find the origins of Covid-19. Edwards' comments had been widely carried by Chinese state media outlets.However, the Swiss embassy said that it was unlikely this person existed.Meta said in its report the social media campaign was "largely unsuccessful," and targeted English-speaking audiences in the United States and Britain and Chinese-speaking audiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tibet.Earlier in July, an account posing as a Swiss biologist called Wilson Edwards had made statements on Facebook and Twitter that the United States was applying pressure on the World Health Organization scientists who were studying the origins of Covid-19 in an attempt to blame the virus on China.  » Read More

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NASSAU, Bahamas — Shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday inside a press tent staked in the sand adjacent to the fourth hole at Albany Golf Club, Tiger Woods emerged in public for the first time since his horrific February car crash 281 days ago. When we last saw Woods in public, he was doing a TV interview with CBS at the Genesis Invitational at Riviera in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Feb. 22, looking exhausted and mumbling parts of his responses. The next day on the way to a photo shoot, he crashed his SUV into a wooded area, the vehicle flipped and was so badly damaged it seemed like a miracle anyone would survive. On Tuesday, Woods’ gait was careful and cautious. He looked and moved around like a man older than his 45 years as he carefully walked into the tent to a podium where he took a seat and spoke about the things that have taken place in his life for the past nine months, many of which have been harrowing.  » Read More

(CNN Business)David Marcus, the executive in charge of the troubled cryptocurrency project at Meta Platforms — the company formerly known as Facebook — announced Tuesday he will step down at the end of the year to pursue other projects. Marcus, who previously was the president of PayPal, joined Facebook seven years ago to oversee the social network's messaging products. More recently, he oversaw Libra, a digital currency announced by Facebook in 2019 with the promise of allowing people to easily send money across borders. However, the Libra project was hit by delays amid scrutiny from legislators and regulatory bodies. Initial concerns centered on then-Facebook's potential influence on financial markets as well as potential privacy risks. Marcus was called to testify before members of Congress on the matter in 2019. Facebook later renamed Libra as Diem. The company also launched a digital wallet called Novi in a limited pilot in October — but without the digital currency that was initially intended to be its biggest feature. "While there's still so much to do right on the heels of launching Novi — and I remain as passionate as ever about the need for change in our payments and financial systems — my…

© Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Baker Mayfield is seemingly trapped in the Bermuda Triangle and, in there, it's not simply the loss column he can't escape lately. He's also battling against very public and visceral criticism of the parents of teammates, and it began when Odell Beckham Sr. skewered the play of Mayfield just ahead of his son being released by the Cleveland Browns mid-season. This time, after struggling wildly in the loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night, it's the father of running back Kareem Hunt who's taking his shots at the Browns quarterback while insisting he's nothing like Beckham Sr. -- who took to social media to post clips of Mayfield's play to crutch his point."Now I'm getting people on my Facebook saying I'm being like OBJ's daddy, and I'm not," said Kareem Hunt Sr. on Facebook, via Brad Stainbrook of 247Sports. "I'm stating facts on football and what we see: he's limping, he's scared to throw the ball and they know he's hurt.  » Read More

Samantha WuSenior Victoria Tong logs in to Facebook on her cellphone.On Oct. 22, data scientist and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen released thousands of internal documents and investigative research from her former company to Congress. These documents included investigations on Facebook’s role and complicity in the Jan. 6 insurrection, lack of hate speech censorship in underdeveloped countries, misinformation among vulnerable demographics and mental health problems in teens. The papers showed discrepancies between public statements from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and creator of Facebook, and real data found in internal investigations. For example, when Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress in 2019, he said that Facebook’s algorithm removes 94 percent of hate speech and misinformation from the app before it is reported by a human. But Haugen’s documents reveal the algorithm to be removing less than five percent.  One of Haugen’s main claims was that the “profit optimizing is generating self-harm and self-hate — especially for vulnerable groups, like teenage girls.”  The design of the program had been called out for impacting youth body image and self esteem.  » Read More