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At Cannes, the Ad industry confronts the rise of Facebook

The frightened townsfolk — top executives from the biggest media companies and advertising agencies in the world — debated in whispers their grim choice between bloody resistance or total surrender.

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Facebook executives reiterate interest in China

Shareholders approved the plan to create a new class of shares and re-elected all eight directors at Facebook’s annual meeting

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Facebook offers tools for those who fear a friend may be suicidal

When Carrie Simmons opened her Facebook app one day in late 2014, she saw a status update from a high school friend she had not seen in years that alarmed her. It read like a suicide note.

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Facebook and Microsoft to build private internet highway underwater

Projects to install undersea cables from US to Spain would ensure fast enough connectivity for tech companies’ virtual reality and live video services

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Facebook changes policies on 'Trending Topics' after criticism

Facebook said on Monday that it had changed some of the procedures for its "Trending Topics" section after a news report alleging it suppressed conservative news prompted a U.S. Congressional demand for more transparency.

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What if Facebook gave us an opposing-viewpoints utton?

With more information than ever at our fingertips, why has it become harder to fathom your neighbor’s point of view? Facebook contributes to an online echo chamber—but could also be part of a solution

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Yes, Facebook has editors who pick news articles

Most major social media platforms have, in recent years, amassed editorial teams of their own - groups that select, tame and fill gaps in the material produced by users and media outlets.

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“Untrue”: Facebook slams report after conservatives accuse social network of political bias

​Contrary to what you might have thought, there’s a team of journalists that puts together the “trending” news section on your Facebook page—it’s not a robot’s job (yet). And those journalists, or “news curators,” may not be objective about the news stories they choose to display.

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Facebook denies censoring conservative stories from trending topics

Social network has found no evidence that allegations it ignores news from right-wing sites are true, says head of search

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Facebook wins a trademark battle in China

Beijing Higher People’s Court ruled in favor of U.S. social media giant Facebook in a trademark case against a Chinese beverage company that owned the trademark “face book.”

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Facebook has 50 minutes of your time each day. It wants more

That’s the average amount of time, the company said, that users spend each day on its Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platforms (and that’s not counting the popular messaging app WhatsApp).

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Facebook pays $10,000 to 10-year-old Instagram hacker

Social media giant Facebook has paid a $10,000 reward to a 10-year-old Finnish boy for finding a glitch in its picture sharing app Instagram.

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Facebook F8: Zuckerberg demos new VR and chat bots – and makes Trump dig

The Facebook CEO criticized Trump’s ‘fearful’ anti-immigration rhetoric at the annual F8 developer event: ‘Instead of building walls we can help build bridges’

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Facebook's VP in Latin America arrested for not turning over user messages

Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook's vice-president for Latin America, for not complying with previous judicial decisions.

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Facebook founder hits out at Andreessen for slamming India over net neutrality

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has hit out at prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen for his tweets condemning the Indian government for banning the firm's free Internet service to uphold net neutrality.

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Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany

Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis.

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Facebook lifts ban on content from rival social network Tsu

Facebook has lifted a ban that blocked material from Tsu.co, a small rival challenging the world's largest social network's financial dependence on free content shared by its 1.5 billion users.