New Facebook bug exposed millions of photos
Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted.
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Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted.
On Wednesday, while the political world was focused on the news that former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen had been sentenced to three years in prison for a variety of crimes, something else of potentially huge import got somewhat glossed over: American Media Inc., the parent company of the National Enquirer, admitted it had helped facilitate a hush payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and agreed to cooperate with the ongoing investigation being run by the Southern District of New York.
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The methods Facebook uses to thwart ad-blocking technology have been criticised by web developers.
Emails written by Facebook's chief and his deputies show the firm struck secret deals to give some developers special access to user data while refusing others, according to MPs.
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Google staff have pledged $200,000 (£157,000) to engineers if they go on strike over the firm's work on a censored search engine for China.
Facebook has started to enforce its tighter political advertising rules in the UK.