Facebook tries to recruit more poll workers for November election
You might have noticed a new banner at the top of your Facebook news feed asking you, by name, to be a poll worker. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted about…
Facebook removes misinformation related to Oregon wildfires
Another day, another slew of misinformation being shared on Facebook. But this time, the social media platform is removing several false claims before they spread to an even wider audience.…
Facebook launches TheFacebook…no wait, sorry, Facebook Campus
Earlier this year, if you were a college student who wished there was a social media platform just for students called “Facebook,” you were about a decade and a half…
Facebook engineer quits, says company is ‘profiting off hate’
A Facebook engineer has published a scathing resignation letter accusing the company of “profiting off hate” and criticising it for “choosing to be on the wrong side of history.” “I’m…
What the biggest tech companies are doing to make the 2020 election more secure
All eyes are on tech companies ahead of the presidential election
Facebook’s AR glasses could give you super hearing
Augmented reality (AR) glasses promise a science fiction future, in which the visual reality around you is “augmented” with digital objects. But what if AR glasses could also give you…
Facebook’s ongoing updates, robot dog doctors, and more | Digital Trends Live
On this Digital Trends Live we talk the top tech stories, including ongoing Facebook updates, and more.
Facebook is paying some users to suspend their accounts before 2020 election
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Facebook reveals its impotence as Trump sows confusion about voting twice
In the friendly face-off between Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump, Zuckerberg just blinked. Again. On Thursday, mere hours after the Facebook CEO announced “additional steps” to “fight misinformation” ahead of…
Citing risk of ‘civil unrest,’ Facebook won’t accept new political ads in week before election
Facebook said it won’t accept new political or issue ads in the week before Election Day in November. In a Facebook post on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was…