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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Zuckerberg Will Be Questioned By Recipients Of Facebook Campaign Contributions
Zuckerberg Will Be Questioned By Recipients Of Facebook Campaign Contributions
April 06, 2018  |  Facebook

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned on user privacy protection next week, many of the members of the House and Senate committees in charge...

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Facebook-Gate: Rethinking How Apps Treat User Profile Data
Facebook-Gate: Rethinking How Apps Treat User Profile Data
April 06, 2018  |  Facebook

When it was discovered that Facebook had allowed its users’ profile data – and that of their social networks – to fall into third-party hands,...

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Facebook Admits Most Of Its 2B Users Had Their Public Profiles Scraped Without Permission
Facebook Admits Most Of Its 2B Users Had Their Public Profiles Scraped Without Permission
April 05, 2018  |  Facebook

Another data issue for Facebook: The company announced that “malicious actors” were able to use search tools to discover the identities and collect information on...

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Facebook Updates Policies To Clarify For Users
Facebook Updates Policies To Clarify For Users
April 05, 2018  |  Facebook

Reeling from its latest data scandal, social media giant Facebook is taking steps to spell out in plain English how it gathers and uses the...

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Cambridge Analytica May Have Had Data On 87 Million Facebook Users
Cambridge Analytica May Have Had Data On 87 Million Facebook Users
April 04, 2018  |  Facebook

Following estimates from two newspapers that the Facebook data of more than 50 million users may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the social...

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congressional Panel
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congressional Panel
April 04, 2018  |  Facebook

About two weeks after U.S. legislators asked Mark Zuckerberg to testify about Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of Facebook data, the CEO is scheduled to appear before...

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Facebook Continues Fight Against Fake News With New Verification Tools
Facebook Continues Fight Against Fake News With New Verification Tools
April 04, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook continues its fight against fake news, this time with a new feature that can help users decide which sources are worth reading, trusting and...

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Facebook Also Limits Developer Data Collection For Instagram
Facebook Also Limits Developer Data Collection For Instagram
April 04, 2018  |  Facebook

In more fallout from the Facebook data scandal: Instagram is ending API access for some developers and limiting how often others can use its API...

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Building Way Outside The Box
Building Way Outside The Box
April 03, 2018  |  Today In Data

In a world that values sameness, doing something different is a risky proposition. But when it works, the rewards can be impressive. It’s why Walmart seems...

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