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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook is experiencing widespread outages Monday morning. Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms suffered a worldwide outage that has lasted more than three hours on Monday. Facebook’s internal systems used by employees also went down. Service has not yet been restored.
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Ridgewood NJ, Facebook and Ray-Ban’s Wayfarer Stories smart glasses are now available for purchase in the US, UK, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and Canada. The $299 glasses can record photos and 30-second videos via dual 5-megapixel cameras, play open-air sound without headphones, and take calls. Photos and videos can be shared with a companion smartphone app. Wayfarer Stories come in several styles and colors and can be made as sunglasses or with untinted, prescription, or progressive lenses. The glasses will only have a couple of hours of battery life, but its included charging case will provide roughly a day of use.
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Ridgewood NJ, a new book has been released that details how Facebook fired 52 employees between January 2014 and August 2015 for exploiting user data for personal means. Most of the employees who were fired were men who took advantage of their data access to find profiles of women they were interested in. Facebook has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and has fired every employee ever found to be improperly accessing data. An employee was found to have abused access nearly every month, but Facebook still resists limiting internal access to private data.
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) has received an increase in incident reports regarding compromised Facebook accounts, which has led to additional account compromises and theft of funds. While the methods used to acquire the users’ password is not confirmed, it is likely that the threat actor used tactics such as credential stuffing or attempting passwords exposed in data breaches.
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Ridgewood NJ, For those of you who believe that the opportunity to post anonymously on the Ridgewood Blog is unwarranted/in poor taste, check this out. This is what happened to a person who posted an opposing opinion on Facebook:
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Ridgewood NJ, YouTube and Facebook are the most dominant social media platforms in the US. YouTube’s user base grew from 73 percent of adults in 2019 to 81 percent in 2021. Facebook’s share of users remained at 69 percent over the same period. The only other platform to see statistically significant growth since 2019 was Reddit. While growth has slowed down, users still report using social media frequently throughout the day.
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Ridgewood NJ, Personal data from 533 million Facebook accounts was recently leaked online. The dataset was scraped by exploiting a vulnerability that was fixed in 2019. It contains information such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, email addresses, and more. Portions of the dataset were available for purchase earlier this year through a Telegram bot. The leaked emails have been uploaded to Have I Been Pwned, but the owner of the site is still debating whether to make the leaked phone numbers available.
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Ridgewood NJ, Twitter’s stock price tumbled Monday as investors appeared to balk at the social network’s decision to ban President Trump from posting. Technology companies tried to contain a mounting backlash against their social media sites, with shares of Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. falling in early trading and rival platform Parler forced offline by Amazon.com Inc.
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Old Tappan NJ, this video explains Assemblyman Auth’s bill A5798 , “the Stop Social Media Censorship Act for New Jersey”. This bill will crush social media censorship.
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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today joined with 47 other Attorneys General in suing Facebook, Inc. for allegedly violating federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for personal social networking services, and by using illegal mergers and other anti-competitive tactics to maintain its monopoly power.
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Washington DC, The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Following a lengthy investigation in cooperation with a coalition of attorneys general of 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam, the complaint alleges that Facebook has engaged in a systematic strategy—including its 2012 acquisition of up-and-coming rival Instagram, its 2014 acquisition of the mobile messaging app WhatsApp, and the imposition of anticompetitive conditions on software developers—to eliminate threats to its monopoly. This course of conduct harms competition, leaves consumers with few choices for personal social networking, and deprives advertisers of the benefits of competition.
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Washington DC, The Department of Justice announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. for discriminating against U.S. workers.
The lawsuit alleges that Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for over 2,600 positions that Facebook, instead, reserved for temporary visa holders it sponsored for permanent work authorization (or “green cards”) in connection with the permanent labor certification process (PERM). The positions that were the subject of Facebook’s alleged discrimination against U.S. workers offered an average salary of approximately $156,000. According to the lawsuit, and based on the department’s nearly two-year investigation, Facebook intentionally created a hiring system in which it denied qualified U.S. workers a fair opportunity to learn about and apply for jobs that Facebook instead sought to channel to temporary visa holders Facebook wanted to sponsor for green cards.
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Ridgewood NJ, newly elected Ridgewood Board of Education member Saurabh Dani has announced that he will no longer be group administrator for Ridgewood Moms and Dads With Free Speech and It Takes a Ridgewood Village. The announcement was made in both Facebook groups on Saturday June 6th .
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Washington DC, Flanked by Attorney General Bill Barr, President Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday that calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) to remove statutory liability protections and cut federal funding for tech companies that engage in censorship and political conduct.
