News of facebook

A Holy War is raging between Google, Facebook, and the media industry

24-09-2022 06:00 The power that Google, Facebook and a few other companies hold over the information ecosystem, where they’ve become the de facto gatekeepers, is troubling. Ultimately they've taken over an editorial role that used to be controlled by media companies, in particular news publishers.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

ANALYSIS

A bite of the digital apple

23-04-2022 00:01 The problem with Google and Faebook sucking the air out of the digital advertising market is that it has seriously deteriorated the quality of journalism worldwide.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

TECH & SOCIETY

The battle to keep Russia's Internet free

18-03-2022 11:28 Western powers have seized the possessions of Russian oligarchs and sanctioned banks, but moves to limit access to the Internet are highly divisive.

Tech giants

Argentina fines Facebook for abusive privacy terms in WhatsApp

07-01-2022 01:35 Government fines Facebook for abusive clauses in the privacy policy terms of messaging service WhatsApp.

Tech giants

Facebook misidentified thousands of political ads, says study

09-12-2021 14:53 Facebook misidentified tens of thousands of advertisements flagged under its political ads policy, according to a study released Thursday, which warned that the failure could lead to political manipulation.

Digital dystopia

The lies behind Zuckerberg’s Meta & Google’s Goodness

29-10-2021 23:37 It is clear that the level of complexity behind managing and supervising content on the Facebook family of products is extreme, yet Zuckerberg simply doesn’t seem interested in it.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

What's in a name?

Facebook’s new name draws critics – but at least it’s not Tronc

29-10-2021 11:25 The company that runs the world’s largest and most controversial social network has a new name. The reactions ranged from “like” to “angry emoji face.”

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Facebook changes name to Meta in embrace of virtual reality

29-10-2021 10:54 Facebook Inc is re-christening itself Meta Platforms Inc, decoupling its corporate identity from the eponymous social network mired in toxic content, and highlighting a shift to an emerging computing platform focused on virtual reality.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Facebook removes Bolsonaro video linking Covid shots to AIDS

26-10-2021 10:04 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro found himself in social media time-out Monday after his video warning of a supposed link between Covid-19 vaccines and AIDS triggered action by Facebook and YouTube.

Facebook’s dilemma

How to evade taxes while being a major global corporation in a globalised and digital world

09-10-2021 11:55 Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the largest technology companies out there, most of them headquartered in Silicon Valley but registered in tax havens like Ireland, have long bent the rules in order to innovate, but also to their own benefit.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

explainer

Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?

05-10-2021 09:11 Hundreds of millions of people were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for more than six hours on Monday, underscoring the world's reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant. But what actually caused the outage?

TECH GIANTS

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage

04-10-2021 20:55 Facebook battled duelling crises on Monday as it faced a large-scale outage of its dominant social network for seven hours, and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.

BIG TECH

Is Facebook a monopoly? A few ideas to help the FTC out…

10-07-2021 08:20 For anyone operating in the same digital ecosystem as Facebook, it is painstakingly clear that Zuckerberg’s creation has excessive market power and uses it to its own benefit. The same can be said about Google and a few other Silicon Valley giants.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

TECH GIANTS

Facebook wins US antitrust dismissal, surges to US$1-trillion value

28-06-2021 19:23 A judge of the of the US District Court dismissed cases filed in December by the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states, which could have impeded Facebook's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp.

SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP?

'An insult' — Trump responds to two-year Facebook ban

04-06-2021 14:59 Facebook says it has banned former US President Donald Trump for two years, saying he deserved the maximum punishment possible for violating platform rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol.

NATION v TECH GIANT

Argentina orders Facebook to suspend WhatsApp data sharing

17-05-2021 17:59 Government orders Facebook to suspend its data use policy allowing it to collect information from users of its WhatsApp messaging app.

BIG TECH, MASSIVE PROFITS

Amazon caps blockbuster Big Tech earnings reports

29-04-2021 12:15 A week of blockbuster earnings reports from Big Tech culminated Thursday with Amazon crushing forecasts of how much money it would rake in from pandemic-revved online shopping and growing reliance on internet-hosted services.

Bloomberg

Facebook removes 1,000 fake accounts seeking to sway global politics

06-04-2021 16:44 Facebook says it has removed 14 networks representing more than 1,000 accounts seeking to sway politics around the world, including in Argentina, Iran and El Salvador, while misleading the public about their identity.

ON FACEBOOK´S 17TH BIRTHDAY

Facebook and Zuckerberg – one year from adulthood

06-02-2021 09:08 Facebook reached its first million monthly users the same year it was founded, 2004. It reached 100 million just four years later, went on to top one billion by 2012 and currently boasts 2.8 billion monthly active users, or roughly 36 percent of the global population.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

AS I SEE IT

Censorship is on the march

16-01-2021 09:05 Once upon a time, progressives, or “liberals” as North Americans call them, agreed that censorship was bad. They would have been appalled by the notion that the richest men on Earth were entitled to prevent the sitting US president, however obnoxious many thought him, from communicating with his followers.

by James Neilson

SOCIAL MEDIA

The fallacy of 'deplatforming' Donald Trump

16-01-2021 08:11 Regardless of whether the decisions made by Mark Zuckerbeg and Jack Dorsey were right or wrong, the Trump ban lays bare the absolute fallacy behind arguments used by the major platforms in the past.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Data journalism

How to hunt down a hate group on the Internet

06-01-2021 05:00 In the second of two articles on hate speech and online communication, technology expert Julio López explores how to become involved in the fight against messages of discrimination and prejudice on social networks.

by Julio López

Hate & social media

Hate groups flourish on social networks in Argentina

05-01-2021 05:00 In the first of a two-part series on hate speech and online communication, technology expert Julio López explores how easy it is for messages of discrimination and prejudice to spread on social networks.

by Julio López, via PERFIL

News of facebook

A Holy War is raging between Google, Facebook, and the media industry

A bite of the digital apple

The battle to keep Russia's Internet free

Argentina fines Facebook for abusive privacy terms in WhatsApp

Facebook misidentified thousands of political ads, says study

The lies behind Zuckerberg’s Meta & Google’s Goodness

Facebook’s new name draws critics – but at least it’s not Tronc

Facebook changes name to Meta in embrace of virtual reality

Facebook removes Bolsonaro video linking Covid shots to AIDS

How to evade taxes while being a major global corporation in a globalised and digital world

Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage

Is Facebook a monopoly? A few ideas to help the FTC out…

Facebook wins US antitrust dismissal, surges to US$1-trillion value

'An insult' — Trump responds to two-year Facebook ban

Argentina orders Facebook to suspend WhatsApp data sharing

Amazon caps blockbuster Big Tech earnings reports

Facebook removes 1,000 fake accounts seeking to sway global politics

Facebook and Zuckerberg – one year from adulthood

Censorship is on the march

The fallacy of 'deplatforming' Donald Trump

How to hunt down a hate group on the Internet

Hate groups flourish on social networks in Argentina

Election showed Brazil's far-right was sold short, say analysts

Decades on, the Grandmothers’ search for stolen children continues

Experts: Lula must fight for centre to win Brazil run-off

Twelve arrests in Villa Mascardi as security forces evict Mapuches

Judge Casanello sends 'Olivosgate' probe to San Isidro

Ramiro Marra dijo que el Gobierno prepara una devaluación del 50%

Las hijas de Jesús Quintero rompen el silencio en el adiós a su padre

César Mascetti: cuál fue la enfermedad que terminó con su vida

"Para robar hay que ser inteligente y yo me considero inteligente": un ex intendente irá a juicio oral

Leandro Santoro: "Lo de Manes es desopilante, para un médico pero psiquiátrico"