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FACEBOOK SECRETLY DELETED MESSAGES MARK ZUCKERBERG SENT ON MESSENGER

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FACEBOOK SECRETLY DELETED MESSAGES MARK ZUCKERBERG SENT ON MESSENGER                                           Facebook has admitted the company has been secretly deleting messages sent on Messenger by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications,” says a Facebook spokesperson in a statement to TechCrunch. “These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages.” Old Facebook messages sent by Zuckerberg have simply vanished in some existing threads, and TechCrunch reports that affected messages no longer appear in Facebook’s download your information tool. Recent messages from Zuckerberg reportedly remain in some users’ inboxes, and the company doesn’t appear to have cleared ...
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CONTROLS AIM TO REGULATE POLITICAL ADS AND FIGHT FAKE NEWS

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April 06, 2018 NEW FACEBOOK CONTROLS AIM TO REGULATE POLITICAL ADS AND FIGHT FAKE NEWS Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight fake news and political misinformation, with new controls intended to ensure authenticity and transparency among advertisers and publishers on the site. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post shortly after the moves were announced: “These steps by themselves won’t stop all people trying to game the system. But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads.” He also threw his company’s support behind the Honest Ads Act, a US Senate bill: “Election interference is a problem that’s bigger than any one platform ... This will help raise the bar for all political advertising online.” The measures build on a plan, announced last October, to require American political advertisers to undergo an authentication process and reveal their affiliation alongsid...
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