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Messenger From Facebook released a new chat theme inspired by recording artist J Balvin. When users activate the J Balvin theme in a chat, that chat will have a cloudy sky in the background, and its emoji will automatically switch to the cloud emoji.  » Read More

Boards are notorious for group think and spinelessness. In Facebook’s case, a board could make a difference.Documents reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier this week revealed a secret system at Facebook to coddle the posts of politicians and celebrities, as well as internal stats on the full extent of psychological harm that Instagram causes teen girls. Both issues were long suspected. Both are now backed by startling evidence.What they boil down to is this: Facebook, like the oil and tobacco companies of years ago, has been far too secretive about the impact of its products on human life.When U.S. Senators asked Facebook last month about Instagram’s impact on teen mental health, the company did not answer. The reason is likely because its internal stats looked so bad: A third of teenage girls who already felt negatively about their bodies felt worse when they went on Instagram, according to the Journal’s reporting, which cited documents from a person seeking federal whistleblower protection. Facebook has also deflected public questioning of XCheck, the internal system that allowed more than 5 million elite users like celebrities and politicians to skirt Facebook’s content rules.  » Read More

Suhas Diggavi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a 2021 Facebook Statistics for Improving Insights, Models and Decisions award for his research on privacy in machine learning and analytics. Facebook announced the research program in April at The Web Conference. UCLA is the only University of California campus selected among the 10 winners and 15 finalists out of 134 total proposals from across the globe. Diggavi received a $50,000 award to support his research on a machine learning technique, known as federated learning, which trains an algorithm across distributed edge devices housing local data that could be sensitive and need to be kept private. Specifically, Diggavi’s winning research looks at privacy in personalized learning models. Most personalized technologies require multiple devices to analyze large amounts of data, which can jeopardize individuals’ privacy in the process. Diggavi hopes to find a way to ensure robust protection of sensitive data while also advancing individualized models. This award will help support a larger program in his lab focused on private,  » Read More

You can log into Facebook on your computer or phone using the website or app. Once you've logged into Facebook, you can save your account information and log in faster in the future. If you don't know your Facebook password, select the "Forgot password?" option to recover it. Visit Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. Loading Something is loading. Facebook has dozens of apps spread across even more platforms. And although these apps have different looks and features, they've got one thing in common: To use them, you need to log into your Facebook account.Luckily, logging into Facebook usually just requires your email and password.Here's how to log into Facebook using your Mac, PC, iPhone, or Android device. How to log into Facebook on an iPhone or Android deviceOn a mobile device, you can use either the Facebook app or website. The app is definitely easier, but both methods are similar.If you want to use the app,  » Read More

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB, -0.58% sank 0.58% to $376.51 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.76% rising 0.76% to 34,869.63 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.07% falling 0.07% to 15,105.58. The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $7.82 below its 52-week high ($384.33), which the company achieved on September 1st. The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Monday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.43% rose 0.43% to $296.99, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +1.03% rose 1.03% to $2,846.65, and Twitter Inc. TWTR, -3.09% fell 3.09% to $59.66. Trading volume (12.4 M) remained 32,669 below its 50-day average volume of 12.4 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.  » Read More

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. FB, -0.58%  allows its more than 3 billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame. In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The program, known as “cross check” or “XCheck,” was initially intended as a quality-control measure for actions taken against high-profile accounts, including celebrities, politicians and journalists. Today, it shields millions of VIP users from the company’s normal enforcement process, the documents show. Some users are “whitelisted”—rendered immune from enforcement actions—while others are allowed to post rule-violating material pending Facebook employee reviews that often never come. At times, the documents show, XCheck has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users. In 2019,  » Read More

Some of Australia’s most well-known digital publications are using funding from tech giants Google and Facebook to form their first industry body.Crikey publisher Private Media, Mamamia, The Squiz and Junkee Media are among 20 publishers that are coming together to form what will be known as the Digital Publishers’ Alliance. The body will be led by Junkee’s co-founder Tim Duggan and will aim to boost visibility with advertisers, and give the publications a stronger voice on key industry issues.“There are a lot of decisions being made right now that are going to affect future publishers over the next decade or so,” Mr Duggan said. “ are both supporting it with funding to help set it up as a really easy way to communicate to a large variety of publishers at the same time rather than having to kind of go individually to 20 or 40 different publishers to talk to about issues.”Tim Duggan, head of the Digital Publishing AllianceOther members of the DPA include Future Women,  » Read More

Facebook smart glasses Facebook Every moment is fleeting. The time you spend going to dinner with your spouse. A two-week vacation visiting sunny California. The 20 minutes it takes to drive to work, depending on traffic. We won’t ever get that time back, which should make us more intentional. With social media, it’s the opposite. Intentionality is rarely the goal. It’s often diametrically opposed to the business plan, in fact. The goal is to provide an illusion that time is not passing, that when you scroll through your feed, you don’t notice the passage of time. Recently, Facebook released a new product called Ray-Ban Stories. The smart glasses can snap photos and shoot videos, and post them on your feed. You can listen to music or podcasts. Someday, the goggles might show you an augmented reality view of the world, although that is still TBD. For now, the $299 product is remarkably similar to the Snap Spectacles.  The idea with any wearable is to make technology more immediate and accessible without relying on our phones.  » Read More

As much as social media has helped us to stay connected, especially for those stuck in lockdown, it has also become a home for vile and questionable commentary.The High Court this week weighed into that issue, in a way, when it ruled that media companies are liable for any comments from the general public on posts they put on Facebook.The case before the High Court directly involved some of the nation's biggest media organisations, but the consequences reach far beyond Australia's newsrooms.If you're the admin of your band's Facebook page, or the local football club, or your own small business, it will matter to you too.What has the High Court decided?News Corp and Fairfax, the latter now owned by Nine, wanted a ruling on whether they could be held liable if defamatory comments were made by the public on their Facebook posts.The issue arose after Dylan Voller, whose case of mistreatment at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre sparked a royal commission,  » Read More

NO.neighbors.091221_613.JPG Published Sep 11, 2021 at 11:45 am | Updated Sep 11, 2021 at 2:47 pm Gerard Guerra takes a selfie with a Metairie resident after dropping off food, water, and supplies to her on Friday, September 10, 2021. When not at his day job, Guerra has been making about 40-50 food deliveries a day since Hurricane Ida. (Photo by Chris Granger | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) CHRIS GRANGER NO.neighbors.091221_608.JPG Published Sep 11, 2021 at 11:45 am | Updated Sep 11, 2021 at 2:47 pm Sam Winstrom unloads an ice chest from his car holding some of the homemade foods that he and his fiancŽ, Sara Ebert, made for those needing help after Hurricane Ida in New Orleans. Winstrom placed containers of red beans and rice into a community refrigerator on Piety Street on Thursday, September 9, 2021. (Photo by Chris Granger | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate) CHRIS GRANGER NO.neighbors.091221_610.JPG Published Sep 11, 2021 at 11:45 am | Updated Sep 11,  » Read More