President Trump accused Facebook of being "anti-Trump" and colluding with "fake news" organizations. The Twitter comment comes as the giant social network faces intensifying scrutiny for Russia-linked advertisements designed to help Trump's candidacy.
The Senate Intelligence Committee intends to call Google executives to Capitol Hill as part of the panel’s investigation into Russian election meddling, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The panel is seeking Google’s cooperation as it studies how Russia’s government might have exploited American social media and Internet companies during the 2016 campaign.
The Department of Homeland Security has moved to collect social media information on all immigrants, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens. A new rule published in the Federal Register last week calls to include "social media handles and aliases, associated identifiable information and search results" in the department's immigrant files.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told government cybersecurity officials about a hack into its database of corporate filings soon after it happened last year, months before the agency’s new chairman made the breach public. Since disclosing the incident on Sept. 20, Jay Clayton has come under mounting pressure to provide additional details about the 2016 intrusion into the SEC’s Edgar system that may have led to illicit trades.
Google will create a standalone unit for its shopping service and require it to bid against rivals for ads shown on the top of its search page, in an effort to satisfy European Union concerns over the display of product results, three people familiar with the investigation said. Google faces a deadline to comply with an EU antitrust order for it to give equal treatment in how the search engine shows competitors’ comparison-shopping sites, according to the people, who asked not to be named as the negotiations are private. While the shopping service will remain part of Google, it will operate separately and use its own revenues to bid for ads.
Russia will block access to Facebook next year unless the social network complies with a law that requires websites which store the personal data of Russian citizens to do so on Russian servers, Russian news agencies reported. The threat was made by Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, agencies said, the organization which blocked access to LinkedIn’s website last November in order to comply with a court ruling that found the social networking firm guilty of violating the same data storage law.
Facebook cannot say for certain whether profiles or pages connected to Russia purchased ads during the French and German election campaigns, a company official told BuzzFeed News. The official said Facebook has yet to dedicate substantial investigative resources to potential ad buys in those election campaigns because it has been focused on the effort in the United States.
Chinese Internet regulators said they have hit operators of three of the country’s biggest social-media platforms with the maximum fine allowable under a new cybersecurity law for hosting fake news, pornography and other forms of banned content. The Cyberspace Administration of China didn’t disclose the amount of the fines handed down to the platforms, which are owned in whole or part by China’s three internet giants: Tencent Holdings Ltd., Baidu Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Twitter explained why it will not be deleting President Trump's tweet threatening North Korea, saying it did not violate the company's rules after weighing its "newsworthiness." "We hold all accounts to the same Rules, and consider a number of factors when assessing whether Tweets violate our Rules," Twitter's Policy account said in a six-part Twitter thread.
China has largely blocked the WhatsApp messaging app, the latest move by Beijing to step up surveillance ahead of a big Communist Party gathering next month.The disabling in mainland China of the Facebook-owned app is a setback for the social media giant, whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has been pushing to re-enter the Chinese market, and has been studying the Chinese language intensively.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash approved a settlement between Home Depot and financial institutions, including credit unions, in a suit filed in the wake of a 2014 data breach at the retailer. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, includes creation of a $25 million fund by Home Depot for distribution through a claims process, as well as an agreement by the retailer to strengthen data security systems.
Global accountancy firm Deloitte said it had been hit in a cyber attack that had compromised the data of a small number of its clients, but gave few details about how its systems had been breached. Attackers had accessed data from the company’s email platform, the company said in statement, confirming a report by the Guardian newspaper.
A website is tricking people into thinking they're dealing with Delta Air Lines when arranging for their pets to fly on jets, the Atlanta-based company maintains in a new federal lawsuit. The site -- DeltaPetTransit.com -- is designed to look like a Delta site and uses the airline's logos and pictures of its planes, Delta said in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Georgia.
A looming change in the way officials define Internet service may soon prompt the Federal Communications Commission to change its mind and say that, in fact, it looks like consumers are doing just fine, thank you very much. The heart of the matter has to do with the minimum benchmark for Internet service, the subject of much political debate in recent years.
Russia's government denied using Facebook ads to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, saying in a statement it didn't even know "how to place an advert" on the social media giant. “We do not know... how to place an advert on Facebook. We have never done this, and the Russian side has never been involved in it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Reuters.
A global investor group called for an independent investigation into a cyber breach at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and urged the regulator to delay new data-gathering rules until it could assure investors that its computer systems were secure. Wall Street’s top regulator came under fire after admitting hackers had breached its database of corporate announcements in 2016 and might have used it for insider trading.
The Department of Homeland Security contacted election officials in 21 states to notify them that they had been targeted by Russian government hackers during the 2016 election campaign. Three months ago, DHS officials said that people connected to the Russian government tried to hack voter registration files or public election sites in 21 states, but this was the first time that government officials contacted individual state election officials to let them know their systems had been targeted.
After years of largely avoiding regulation, businesses like Facebook, Google and Amazon are a focus of lawmakers, some of whom are criticizing the expanding power of big tech companies and their role in the 2016 election. The attacks cover a smattering of issues as diverse as antitrust, privacy and public disclosure.
Twitter has confirmed it will meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. The company tells Wired that it will speak with Senators about the prevalence of bot accounts, as well as the widespread dissemination of fake news and misinformation, on its platform.
Facebook will share the content and related information of the more than 3,000 ads it sold to Russian-linked accounts with the House and Senate intelligence committees, the company said. Facebook has already handed over copies of the ads and information about the relevant accounts to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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