Tag: Social networking
Elon Musk joins #DeleteFacebook effort as Tesla and SpaceX pages vanish
In a jab against the embattled social network, Musk joked “What’s Facebook?” before deactivating his companies’ official pages. Elon Musk joined the #DeleteFacebook movement on Friday, taking down official pages for two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, after he learned apparently for the first time that the pages existed. The billionaire chief executive engaged […]
Facebook translates ‘good morning’ into ‘attack them’, leading to arrest
Palestinian man questioned by Israeli police after embarrassing mistranslation of caption under photo of him leaning against bulldozer. Facebook has apologised after an error in its machine-translation service saw Israeli police arrest a Palestinian man for posting good morning on his social media profile. The man, a construction worker in the West Bank settlement […]
Facebook announces new push against fake news after Obama comments
Mark Zuckerberg says site has been working on problem for a long time and penalizes misinformation on news feeds to reduce chances it will spread. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday, marking a departure from his skepticism that online misinformation is, as Barack Obama said […]