The popular social media company Facebook has now revealed that it will be soon updating its community standards to be clearer about how it handles satirical content.

The company said in a blog post, "We'll add information to the Community Standards that makes it clear where we consider satire as part of our assessment of context-specific decisions. This change will allow teams to consider satire when assessing potential Hate Speech violations." The Verge has learnt that the company's decision has been recommended by its Oversight Board who determined Facebook was wrong to remove a user's comment with a reference to the Turkish government, based on a meme.

Facebook removed that post, citing its 'Cruel and Insensitive Community Standard', which says it will remove posts that target "victims of serious physical or emotional harm," which includes the use of memes and gifs. Facebook later reclassified the removal so it fell under its 'Hate Speech Community Standard' as per The Verge. Following this, the Oversight Board pointed out that while Facebook has said it will make exceptions for satire, it doesn't specify how or what qualifies as satire in its guidelines. In a reply to that, the social media giant in an official blog post said that in addition to making its guidelines around satire clearer, it would "initiate a review of identical content with parallel context," and may take further action.

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Facebook and Microsoft's grievances over how their gaming apps appear on Apple's App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the iPhone maker's business as EU antitrust regulators said such concerns are on their radar.

The European Commission in June opened four probes into Apple, three of which are into its App Store and its restrictive rules, including requirements that app developers use its own in-app purchasing system.

US social media giant Facebook and Microsoft are the latest companies to voice concerns about the rules, which have drawn criticism from app developers who say they create an uneven playing field to compete with the iPhone maker.

Asked about Facebook and Microsoft's issues with Apple, Commission spokeswoman Arianna Podesta said in a statement: "The Commission is aware of these concerns regarding Apple's App Store rules."

She did not provide details.

Apple dismissed criticism of its App Store rules, saying that all apps are reviewed against the same set of guidelines whose aim is to protect customers and provide a fair and level playing field for developers.

Facebook last week said its gaming app was only available on Apple's App Store as a streaming service and that users will not be able to play games.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said the company had to remove gameplay functionality entirely to secure Apple's approval of its Facebook Gaming app.

Microsoft, which has a game-streaming service called Project xCloud said: "Apple stands alone as the only general-purpose platform to deny consumers from cloud gaming and game subscription services like Xbox Game Pass."

"It consistently treats gaming apps differently, applying more lenient rules to non-gaming apps even when they include interactive content," it added in an emailed statement.

Source: Reuters

 

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” in case of an inquiry into their pact to work together in online advertising.

The Journal report mentioned raw footage of the lawsuit filed by 10 states against Google last week.

Google was accused as it was working with Facebook in order to boost its already-dominant online advertising business in ways that dishonored antitrust law.

According to the report, the lawsuit said that Google and Facebook were aware that their agreement could set off antitrust investigations. 

According to a Google spokesperson, such agreements over antitrust threats are extremely common

When the journal reviewed the unedited draft version of the lawsuit, it said that Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg signed the deal with Google.

According to the report, The draft version was also seen to quote an email in which Sandberg told Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and other executives that “this is a big deal strategically,” 

source: Reuters

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Samip Aryal, 18, from Chitwan spotted a major security flaw in Facebook’s Messenger.

Samip, who is studying in 12th grade, found a vulnerability in the Messenger’s Chat Room. Facebook rewarded his $125 (Rs 3,65,665) as a ‘Bounty Reward’ and inducted him into their Hall of Fame, which is a recognition awarded by the company to researchers who contribute to the company's cyber security improvement.

Although this is not the only bug Samip had discovered, last October he discovered a bug in the “Watch Together” feature. He found out that the user who is calling can view the private watch history of the call recipient in the feature. For that discovery Facebook had rewarded $500 to Samip.

Inspired by this he decided to do bug hunting in the Messenger rooms. This time Samip discovered that in the Facebook chat room, during a call, the caller can access the pictures and videos receiver’s phone gallery without unlocking the phone. The caller can also share anything from the receiver’s gallery on social media.

This type of vulnerability can put people’s privacy in a serious jeopardy. Facebook has resolved this issue after Samip reported the bug. Now the caller needs the receiver’s approval to access anything from their device.

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