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With two audits and new A.I., can Facebook fix its discrimination problems?

sudshr47 May 2, 2018

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After the recent farce of a congressional hearing about “anti-conservative bias” on social media, Facebook wants the world to know it’s still taking this alleged issue seriously.

Facebook shared Wednesday that it will undergo a thorough political bias review, led by former Republican senator Jon Kyl and his lobbying firm, Covington and Burling. According to the firm’s website, Kyl is an expert in helping corporations navigate domestic and international policy. The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation will also take part in the independent review.

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Facebook is really proud of its 300,000 business bots, despite claiming it will put ’people first’

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that fake profiles and soviet robots have no place on Facebook.

But worry not, robots. ‘Messenger’ is still a hospitable home for bots like you.

At F8, Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products, David Marcus, jovially reported that Messenger’s integration with business is going swimmingly. According to Marcus, over 8 billion messages have been sent between people and businesses. And there are 300,000 monthly active bots engaging with customers on messenger.

David Marcus says there are 300,000 monthly active bots on Messenger. Joypic.twitter.com/5aPq7uCG8M

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Mark Zuckerberg sounds exactly like Barack Obama in his F8 keynote

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg is not well known for his speaking skills.

Last month, when the Facebook CEO spoke in front of Congress, he was viciously meme’d for his robotic demeanor, something he’s always gotten a lot flack for. But during his keynote at F8 on Tuesday, Facebook’s annual developer conference, Zuckerberg didn’t sound like himself. But he did sound familiar.

Fresh off the tails of the Cambridge Analytica data controversy, Zuckerberg took the stage to open the conference. While bellowing to the hall, his cadence, hand movements, vocal pitch, and demeanor seemed an awful lot like notably inspiring speaker and former president Barack Obama.  Read more…

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Whoops! F8 website crashes as Facebook’s biggest event of the year starts

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

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Facebook’s massive developer conference kicked off Tuesday, but the event’s website lagged behind.

F8’s site was down at least 15 minutes before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was set to kick off his keynote address in San Jose, California. The social network had hyped the event on social media prior to the kickoff, making the stumble a bit awkward.

Even as Zuck addressed data privacy issues head on, the site remained down — including the livestream hosted on the event site.

f8.com is down.

f8.com is down.

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Various news outlets steamed Zuckerberg’s speech, so people could still watch the CEO crack wise about his congressional hearing and various product updates. And the F8 site was brought back online shortly after the presentation began. Read more…

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Facebook tests anti-hate speech feature in News Feed hours before developer conference starts

sudshr47 May 1, 2018

Would you consider the last thing you saw in Facebook to be hate speech?
On Tuesday morning, Facebook began testing a feature that allows users to report posts on their News Feed as hate speech by clicking a button.
The only issue: some users reporte…

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