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Facebook Query Language (FQL) is a query language that allows querying Facebook user data by using a SQL-style interface, [1] avoiding the need to use the Facebook Platform Graph API. [2] Data returned from an FQL query is in JSON format by default.
Quit Facebook Day was an online event which took place on May 31, 2010 (coinciding with Memorial Day), in which Facebook users stated that they would quit the social network due to privacy concerns. [32] It was estimated that 2% of Facebook users coming from the United States would delete their accounts. [33]
After live videos having skyrocketed on Facebook in the last months, the social network launches Facebook Creator, an app for mobile video posts offering influencers Live Creative Kit for adding intros and outros to broadcasts, a unified inbox of Facebook and Instagram comments plus Messenger chats, cross-posting to Twitter and expansive analytics.
Facebook, Inc. v. Power Ventures, Inc. is a lawsuit brought by Facebook in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that Power Ventures Inc., a third-party platform, collected user information from Facebook and displayed it on their own website.
Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users. [35] [36] While Cambridge Analytica claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles, [37] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, [38] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. [39]
Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.
In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook based on internal documents from unknown provenance. Revelations included reporting of special allowances on posts from high-profile users ("XCheck"), subdued responses to flagged information on human traffickers and drug cartels, a shareholder lawsuit concerning the cost of Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark ...
The change was described by Ryan Tate as Facebook's Great Betrayal, [366] forcing user profile photos and friends lists to be visible in users' public listing, even for users who had explicitly chosen to hide this information previously, [365] and making photos and personal information public unless users were proactive about limiting access. [367]