The truth about Facebook: it plays with your emotions all the time
It’s not just a clever use of technology, or a one-off experiment: tracking and manipulating your emotions are at the very heart of Facebook’s success.
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Facebook faces criticism for failing to act over an online chat in which one of Lee Rigby’s murderers discussed “killing a soldier” – but it is hardly the only route terrorists use to communicate.
A parliamentary inquiry slates a US internet company for failing to help prevent the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. But is Facebook being blamed for intelligence service failures?
It’s not just a clever use of technology, or a one-off experiment: tracking and manipulating your emotions are at the very heart of Facebook’s success.
A man who claims to have been friends with one of the ‘Isis Britons’, Abdul Raqib Amin, tells Channel 4 News that he was “obsessed with jihad”.
Facebook’s phone app will soon be able to listen in to your music and TV shows – and identify them, in a new Shazam-like feature aimed at hoovering up even more of your personal data.
It is not just protest groups using social media nowadays: governments are getting in on the act – and in unstable eastern Ukraine, Facebook has become a tool of conflict.
Pilotless drones and high-altitude balloons are some of the ideas being mooted by the internet giants keen to dominate the infrastructure of the web.
The anger that saw thousands protest in Turkey last year resurfaces as a funeral is held for a teenage boy who was killed with a CS gas canister.
Facebook acquires instant messaging service WhatsApp in a $19bn deal that Mark Zuckerberg describes as “extremely valuable”. But is it?
As Facebook turns 10, Channel 4 News asks if the social media giant’s power is dwindling and wonders if we should all be logging off before it reaches the terrible teens.
As Facebook celebrates its 10th brithday, founder Mark Zuckerberg talks to NBC News about losing teen users, the NSA, and what the next decade holds for the site.
The Lib Dem peer at the centre of complaints that he was guilty of inappropriate behaviour towards female activists said he did consider an apology “years ago” but had been “rebuffed”.
Beheading? Yes. Breastfeeding? No. Facebook is on thin ice by allowing videos of beheading. The problem is that it has become more than just a social network, and is effectively a media organisation.
Beheading? Yes. Breastfeeding? No. Facebook is on thin ice by allowing videos of beheading. The problem is that it has become more than just a social network, and is effectively a media organisation.
Facebook seemed like the perfect way to publicise Mark McAndrew’s online fundraising project – until he began to suspect that many of the fans of his Facebook page were fakes.