Consumer goods giant Unilever has promised to stop its brands running adverts on porn sites, after its men’s grooming range Dollar Shave Club ran a campaign on the website Pornhub.
US lawmakers have criticised Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg about the firm’s policy not to fact check political ads in the upcoming 2020 US election.
Innocent Drinks has been forced to tweet a series of warning messages after it sent out a joke message about Conker smoothies- a concoction that could kill people if consumed.
In a fresh push to boost the integrity of the platform, Facebook has shut down Iranian and Russian accounts running election misinformation networks. The change will affect both Facebook and Instagram, as the social media giant prepares for the lucrative US election campaign. Facebook is also increasing transparency of who advertises and what their messages are by changing how its ad library works. Democracy campaigners hope these changes in the US part of the platform will soon be echoed across Europe.
Nearly a third of Brits (32%) are considering ditching Facebook over privacy concerns, compared to just 11% have similar issues with Huawei, according to new research.
Over two-fifths of the UK public remains unconvinced that technology developments are being governed well enough, particularly when it comes to the use of personal data.
Facebook and similar apps and websites can be ordered to take down illegal posts worldwide after a landmark ruling from the EU’s highest court.
A new European court ruling has banned pre-ticked cookie consent forms under GDPR rules.
A tweet posted by Burger King in May has been banned for encouraging violence and anti-social behaviour.
A leaked audio recording of Mark Zuckerberg reveals that the Facebook founder and CEO fears US presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren is an “existential” threat to his company.
Google has released a huge database of deepfake videos, created using paid actors, designed to help systems detect fake videos that could be used to spread disinformation
Google will not have to adhere to a ‘right to be forgotten’ law outside Europe, according to a new ruling in court this week.
The US military has apologised for sending a tweet that appeared to threaten people visiting Area 51 over the weekend after a Facebook event went viral.
Facebook has revealed a board of 40 people who will come up with the rules to govern controversial content on the social network, with powers to overrule even CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg himself.
Digital ad standards industry body JICWEBS has awarded Facebook, Facebook Audience Network and Instagram the DTSG Brand Safety Certification following an independent audit of their advertising processes against JICWEBS’ DTSG Good Practice Principles.
The UK Prime Minister has reportedly asked civil servants to collect “targeted and personalised” data on users of the government website, sparking an investigation from the UK communications watchdog.
Uber has laid off 265 engineers and 170 members of its product teams as the ride-hailing app and tech firm looks to save costs following heavy losses.
Hitachi has announced a first-of-its-kind biometric technology that allows users to unlock their computer by simply raising their hand.
Facebook will stop using facial recognition technology to automatically tag people in photos unless the user has opted in.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has had his own Twitter account hacked, sending our a bombardment of racist and offensive messages.
