Google unveils Pixel 4 with radar gesture control – CNET

Sarah Tew/CNET Google unveiled its Pixel 4 phone Tuesday at an event in New York City. It’s the first phone to use a radar sensor to let users control it using gestures, said Google’s Sabrina Ellis, via Motion Sense sensor. You’ll be able to do tasks like skip a song or silence a call through gestures.”It’s…

Facebook Discloses New Disinformation Campaigns From Russia and Iran

Facebook said it had found and taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Monday that it had recently found and taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, the latest of dozens that it has identified and removed this year and a sign of how foreign interference online is…

The Future Tech Awards celebrate the best in tech

The Future Tech Awards recognize the best people, products, and services from across the U.S. technology sector. We’re asking Android Central readers to vote on the best products and professionals in multiple categories to help us honor the ground-breaking innovations of this year. There are four prizes that make up the Future Tech Awards: Future…

Twitter Shares Plunge After Revenue Hit by Low Demand

Technology|Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than ExpectedTwitter had forecast that third quarter revenue growth would lag the first two quarters, partly because of the ending of some older ad formats.Credit…Richard Drew/Associated PressTwitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, which the company attributed to advertising problems that included product bugs and…

Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in politcal ads

Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads. The letter, obtained by The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, insists…

Twitter Shares Plunge After Weak Earnings

Technology|Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than ExpectedTwitter had forecast that third quarter revenue growth would lag the first two quarters, partly because of the ending of some older ad formats.Credit…Richard Drew/Associated PressTwitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, which the company attributed to advertising problems that included product bugs and…

Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.

Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into louder lies. The checks don’t balance. What we face is a self-reinforcing disinformation dystopia. That’s…

Daily Crunch: Facebook fights (some) election lies

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference…

Google, Facebook, and Twitter Tell Biden Campaign They Won’t Remove Defamatory Trump Ad

Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent requests to Google, Facebook, and Twitter this week asking the companies to remove ads produced by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, arguing that the ads make false allegations. All three companies denied the request, explaining that the ads don’t violate their policies—but Facebook’s response was particularly confounding. The…

Hundreds of employees criticize Facebook’s political ad policies

In the letter, obtained by The New York Times, the employees argue that allowing misinformation to run could increase distrust in Facebook and undermine Facebook’s integrity. They recommend six ways to remedy the situation, including holding political ads to the same standards as other ads, restricting political ad targeting and clearer policies in general.As the…

Facebook won’t call users ‘undesirable’ in ad rejections anymore

As of this week, Facebook will no longer use the word “undesirable” in the rejection messages it sends to potential advertisers. The change comes after reporting from The Verge in September and continued pressure from Facebook and Instagram’s body and skin positivity communities regarding the issue. Facebook used the word when rejecting ads that featured…

Elizabeth Warren masterfully calls out Facebook’s problematic ad policy

Image: Mario Tama / Getty – composite by mashable By Nicole Gallucci2019-10-12 15:54:20 UTC Elizabeth Warren is actively trying to raise awareness about Facebook’s problematic ad policy ahead of the 2020 election, and she’s getting especially creative with her tactics. The Massachusetts Senator and Democratic presidential candidate recently invested in a series of Facebook ads…

Facebook’s 2020 election ‘protections’ still allow for lying politicians

As part of the election efforts, Facebook is launching Facebook Protect, additional security measures for accounts that may face threats during an election, including candidates, elected officials and staff. Participants will have to use two-factor authentication, and their accounts will be monitored for hacking.To make Pages more transparent, Facebook is adding info on who’s behind…

New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads

Heaven forbid a political candidate’s Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation…like they’re already allowed to do in Facebook ads… Today Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference. “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016,” and so has Facebook in response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

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