
WhatsApp vulnerability allowed spyware to be installed on smartphones

Facebook’s FTC settlement could include 20 years of oversight

Facebook raises wages, improves conditions for contract content moderators

NYT: Russia is attacking 5G with health disinformation campaigns

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Nasty online rhetoric hurts brands and business, not just our sense of niceness (VB Live)

Analysis
Google’s I/O 2019 keynote fought Apple’s privacy FUD with practicality

Everything Google announced at I/O 2019

Google unveils 3 accessibility projects that help people with disabilities

Uber, Google, IBM, and others join Urban Computing Foundation to create tools for ‘cities of tomorrow’

YouPorn introduces a virtual human brand ambassador

U.S. senators say Facebook executives including Zuckerberg must be personally accountable in FTC settlement

SendBird closes $102 million round for its chat and messaging API platform

Analysis
Facebook messaging app unification bodes well for chatbot makers

Oculus Quest’s social strategy remains cloudy

Taking care of the elderly in Silicon Valley — a personal story

Facebook and Instagram ban Louis Farrakhan and Alex Jones

Everything Facebook announced at F8 2019

Acast Access launches for podcasters to distribute their paywalled content to any app

How Facebook is building safety and empathy into AR/VR avatars and shared spaces

Believe it or not, Facebook is using AI to reduce abuse and bias

Facebook launches PyTorch 1.1 with TensorBoard support

Facebook loves Stories, just not in Workplace

Facebook cares about privacy, for realsies, Zuckerberg swears

WhatsApp gains Product Catalogs and Account Kit support

Instagram tests making Like counts private in Canada

Instagram introduces new shopping, donation, and camera features

Facebook redesigns its web and mobile apps

Facebook Messenger bots can now book appointments

Facebook details Messenger updates: New desktop app, social video, and Project LightSpeed

How to watch the Facebook F8 2019 stream

New Borderlands 3 Twitch extension earns you in-game loot 4 months before release

Facebook lets select researchers access ‘privacy-protected’ data

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reaches deal with SEC over Twitter use

Slack makes IPO filing public: 82% revenue growth last year but deeply unprofitable

Spanish WhatsApp users reportedly flooded with ‘disinformation and hate’ ahead of elections

AI uses tweets to help researchers analyze floods

Facebook beats Q1 2019 profit estimates, sets aside $3 billion for privacy penalty

Microsoft reports $30.6 billion in Q3 2019 revenue: Azure up 73%, Surface up 21%, and LinkedIn up 27%

Donald Trump complained to Twitter CEO about losing followers
