Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "Andy Stone"


25 mentions found


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made censorship — specifically, claims that the government, news media and tech platforms have tried to stifle his message — a cornerstone of his independent presidential campaign. This weekend, Mr. Kennedy got more fodder for his argument when Facebook and Instagram blocked a link to a new, sleekly produced 30-minute ad supporting his candidacy. The link appeared to have been blocked from Friday late afternoon until Saturday around midday. Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, said the link had been incorrectly flagged as spam. “It was mistakenly blocked, and it was corrected within a few hours” after the issue was discovered, Mr. Stone said.
Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, sleekly, Andy Stone, Stone, Tony Lyons Organizations: Facebook, Meta
That concentration of digital ownership can create real-world harm, as a recent censorship dispute with Meta lays bare. We don’t know,” Kabas wrote in her recounting of the situation. Meta controls a whole bunch of the social media ecosystem, and that means there aren’t a lot of competitors to keep it honest. Meanwhile, all of media relies on it because content creators have to get in front of readers if they want to survive. We don’t know what happened within Meta to trigger an erroneous block of legitimate news sources last week.
Persons: CNN Business ’, Meta, Marisa Kabas, Kabas, Sherman Smith, Andy Stone, ” Kabas, , , Clay Wirestone Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Facebook, Meta, CNN, Twitter, Free Speech Police Locations: New York, Kansas, Brooklyn, Meta
The controversy began Thursday morning when users noticed that all links to the non-profit newspaper the Kansas Reflector had been flagged as a cybersecurity threat and their posts were removed. About seven hours later, the paper said, most of its links had been restored, save for one — a column that had criticized Facebook and accused it of suppressing posts related to climate change. That seemed suspicious to Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist in New York, who asked the Reflector for permission to publish the text of the column on her own website, the Handbasket. And for about two hours, she said, all of the links to her site were blocked. In a Threads post on Friday, Stone said the blocked links were “due to a security error” that also mistakenly blocked links to The Handbasket and the nonprofit news aggregator site News From The States.
Persons: Meta, Andy Stone, Marisa Kabas, , ” Kabas, , Stone, Stone didn’t, Sherman Smith Organizations: New, New York CNN, Meta, Facebook, Kansas, CNN, The Locations: New York, The States, Kansas
Meta used rival platform X to announce the news. Elon Musk took the opportunity to mock the rival tech company. AdvertisementMeta suffered a significant outage on Tuesday and resorted to using rival platform X to announce the news. Musk quickly seized on the opportunity to mock the rival tech company in a series of posts. Advertisement"If you're reading this post, it's because our servers are working," Musk jibed.
Persons: Meta, Elon Musk, , Andy Stone, Musk, Stone, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: Facebook, Service, Elon, Meta, Business
Facebook, Threads and Instagram are down for some users
  + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Meta 's social media platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads were down for many users Tuesday morning. Facebook and Threads seem to be particularly impacted. Instagram feeds aren't refreshing for some users, while others are still able to access the app. The service disruption follows a major outage in 2021, when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for more than six hours. At the time, Facebook, now Meta, said the outage was caused by "configuration changes on backbone routers."
Persons: Andy Stone Organizations: Facebook, Meta
New York CNN —Meta’s platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, went down for thousands of users on Tuesday, because of what the company called a “technical issue.” The outage was resolved within around two hours. As many as 500,000 Facebook users had reported issues logging in or accessing the site as of mid-morning Eastern Time on Tuesday, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Around 50,000 outage reports had been issued regarding Instagram and another 10,000 for Facebook Messenger, although the number of reports had already begun to fall within an hour after they began. About an hour and a half after the outage reports started ticking up, fewer than 80,000 people were reporting issues with Facebook, according to Downdetector. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for nearly six hours in 2021, an outage that the company assured users was not due to malicious activity.
Persons: Elon Musk’s, , , Andy Stone, Messenger, Meta, ” Stone, WhatsApp Organizations: New, New York CNN, Facebook Locations: New York
Some Facebook users have reported hearing a chirping sound as they're scrolling in the app. Meta comms chief Andy Stone says it's "an unfortunate technical error" that the company is fixing. AdvertisementSome Facebook users have reported hearing a chirping sound as they're scrolling through the mobile app, and now the company has weighed in. "Hearing a chirping noise while scrolling through your Facebook Feed on your iPhone? And it's an unfortunate technical error that we're in the process of fixing," Meta's director of communications, Andy Stone, said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Persons: Andy Stone, Organizations: Facebook, Service, Business
One proposal to Mr. Zuckerberg for 45 new staff members was declined. It was rejected and he returned to Mr. Zuckerberg in November with a scaled-down proposal for 32 new hires. It is unclear what Mr. Zuckerberg decided. At the hearing, Mr. Zuckerberg plans to suggest that Apple bear the responsibility for verifying ages via its App Store, according to his prepared remarks. Mr. Zuckerberg has long positioned Meta — and the internet writ large — as a place for both good and ill.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, Mr, Blumenthal, “ We’ve, Andy Stone, Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Zuckerberg’s, , Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Republican, Apple Locations: Connecticut, Tennessee
One proposal to Mr. Zuckerberg for 45 new staff members was declined. It was rejected and he returned to Mr. Zuckerberg in November with a scaled-down proposal for 32 new hires. It is unclear what Mr. Zuckerberg decided. At the hearing, Mr. Zuckerberg plans to suggest that Apple bear the responsibility for verifying ages via its App Store, according to his prepared remarks. Mr. Zuckerberg has long positioned Meta — and the internet writ large — as a place for both good and ill.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, Mr, Blumenthal, “ We’ve, Andy Stone, Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Zuckerberg’s, , Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Republican, Apple Locations: Connecticut, Tennessee
One proposal to Mr. Zuckerberg for 45 new staff members was declined. It was rejected and he returned to Mr. Zuckerberg in November with a scaled-down proposal for 32 new hires. It is unclear what Mr. Zuckerberg decided. At the hearing, Mr. Zuckerberg plans to suggest that Apple bear the responsibility for verifying ages via its App Store, according to his prepared remarks. Mr. Zuckerberg has long positioned Meta — and the internet writ large — as a place for both good and ill.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Richard Blumenthal, Marsha Blackburn, Mr, Blumenthal, “ We’ve, Andy Stone, Sheryl Sandberg, Nick Clegg, Clegg, Zuckerberg’s, , Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Republican, Apple Locations: Connecticut, Tennessee
Wednesday’s filing alleges that Match Group cut its advertising spending on Meta’s platforms over its concerns. Wednesday’s complaint cites an alleged email exchange between Match and Meta late last year in which the dating company asked how Meta prevented its ads from running next to inappropriate content. Meta responded saying it had removed some of the flagged content, including the group, the complaint states. Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Arturo Bejar also told a Senate subcommittee in November that Meta’s top executives, including Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harm to teens on its platforms. Zuckerberg and Meta are refusing to be honest and transparent about what is taking place on Meta’s platforms,” Torrez said in a statement to CNN Wednesday.
Persons: General Raúl Torrez, Torrez, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, ” Meta, Andy Stone, , we’ve, provocatively, Harley Davidson, , Zuckerberg, Arturo Bejar, Mr, Meta’s Stone Organizations: New, New York CNN, Group, Walmart, Meta, CNN, Wall, Facebook, Wednesday Locations: New York, New Mexico, Mexico, , TikTok
CNN —Google has agreed to pay Canadian publishers for their news content, backing down from a high-stakes threat to block all news content produced in the country on its platforms after the tech giant and the Canadian government announced a deal Wednesday to avert the looming crisis. The agreement resolves tensions between Google and Canada over a controversial law known as C-18 requiring digital platforms to compensate news publishers for their work. The Google agreement marks a departure from the path taken by Instagram-parent Meta, which opted to pull news content from its platforms in Canada in response to C-18. The option for Google to negotiate with a single collective helps address one of the tech giant’s main objections to the law. But how the agreement with Google plays out could potentially shape the course of those policies.
Persons: , Pascale St, Onge didn’t, Bill C, Global Affairs Kent Walker, Andy Stone, Meta Organizations: CNN, Google, Canadian, Canadian Heritage, St, of, Global Affairs, Meta Locations: Canada, of Canada
A Meta spokesperson is wanted by the Russian government. AdvertisementA Meta spokesperson has been wanted by Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs database since February, media outlets based in Russia found on Sunday. According to Mediazona, a Russian outlet not affiliated with the state, Andy Stone is wanted by the ministry for unspecified terrorism charges. Before the war in Ukraine, Meta products like Facebook and Instagram enjoyed popularity among Russian users. However, the sites are now banned in Russia, and Meta itself has been listed as a "terrorist" and "extremist" organization since October 2022.
Persons: , Mediazona, Andy Stone, Stone, Instagram, WhatsApp, Meta Organizations: Service, Russia's Ministry, Internal Affairs, TASS, Meta, Facebook, Business Locations: Russian, Russia, Ukraine
Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry. The interior ministry’s database doesn't give details of the case against Stone, stating only that he is wanted on criminal charges. In March this year, Russia's federal Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation into Meta. It alleged that the company's actions following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 amounted to inciting violence against Russians. In April 2022, Russia also formally barred Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg from entering the country.
Persons: Andy Stone, Stone, Meta didn't, Mediazona, ’ ”, couldn't, X, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Meta, Tass, federal, Russian, Facebook, Twitter Locations: Russia, Russian, Ukraine
Washington CNN —A group of US senators is demanding that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand over troves of emails and documents that could show how the company handled the knowledge that its platforms could harm the mental health of teens. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter. Meta spokesman Andy Stone said that the company is in touch with the members who signed the letter. The letter further accuses Meta of showing an “apparent willful disregard” for young people’s well-being, of “misrepresentations to Congress” and of “profiting from threats” to user safety. The letter requests a response by Nov. 30 and calls for Meta to provide its correspondence related to Bejar’s warnings to executives, as well as senior leaders’ own correspondence with Zuckerberg about proposed investments in user well-being.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, , Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, Dick Durbin, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Missouri Republican Josh Hawley, Meta, Arturo Bejar, Andrea Joy Campbell, didn’t, Andy Stone, people’s, Organizations: Washington CNN, Facebook, Connecticut Democrat, Tennessee Republican, South Carolina Republican, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts Democrat, Missouri Republican, Meta Locations: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Tennessee, Illinois, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham ; Massachusetts, Missouri
The disclosures highlight Zuckerberg’s sway over decisions at Meta that can affect billions of users. And they also shed light on tensions that have occasionally arisen between Zuckerberg and other Meta officials who have pushed to enhance user well-being. In response to the newly unsealed communications, Meta spokesman Andy Stone said such image filters are commonly used in the industry. “These unreacted documents prove that Mark Zuckerberg is not interested in protecting anyone’s privacy or safety. “Clegg’s comments follow a pattern and practice at Meta where employees repeatedly flagged under-investment in well-being tools, despite having the research,” Qureshi said.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, , Zuckerberg, Adam Mosseri, Global Affairs Nick Clegg, Karina Newton, Fidji Simo, Margaret Gould Stewart, Simo, Mosseri, Stewart, Newton, Andrew Bosworth, Andy Stone, ” Stone, , Stone, Meta, Clegg, Frances, Instagram, Haugen, ” Zuckerberg, Susan Li, Li, David Ginsberg, Ginsburg, Li “, Arturo Bejar, Bejar, Instagram’s, ” Bejar, I’ve, , Sacha Haworth, Zamaan Qureshi, ” Qureshi Organizations: CNN —, Facebook, Global Affairs, Massachusetts, Meta, CNN, ” Tech, Technology, Tech Locations: Massachusetts, United States, Mosseri
A second Meta whistleblower testified before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, this time describing his fruitless efforts to flag the extent of harmful effects its platforms could have on teens to top leadership at the company. Meta leadership was aware of prevalent harms to its youngest users but declined to take adequate action to address it, Bejar told lawmakers on Tuesday. "When I returned in 2019, I thought they didn't know," Bejar testified. Part of the issue, according to Bejar, is that Meta directs resources toward tackling a "very narrow definition of harm." If one user restricts a second user, only the second user will be able to see their own comments on user one's posts.
Persons: Arturo Bejar, Instagram, Bejar, Frances Haugen, Blumenthal, Chris Cox, Cox, Haugen, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Mosseri, Zuckerberg, he'd, Sandberg, Mosseri, Andy Stone, Stone Organizations: Facebook, Privacy, Technology, Capitol, Lawmakers, Law, Meta, Senate Locations: Washington
Washington CNN —Meta’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram, a company whistleblower told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday. Meanwhile, both parties have united behind blaming Meta for contributing to a nationwide mental health crisis. Bejar’s research “is basically a smoking gun,” Haugen told CNN in an interview Tuesday. “Every day countless people inside and outside of Meta are working on how to help keep young people safe online,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone in a statement. He said everyday Americans understand “the harm being done” and compared it to harms from smoking.
Persons: Washington CNN —, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Arturo Bejar, Bejar, Zuckerberg, Bejar’s, ” Bejar, Frances Haugen, Instagram, ” Haugen, , Sheryl Sandberg, , Andy Stone, Stone, Connecticut Democratic Sen, Richard Blumenthal ., Josh Hawley, Tennessee Republican Sen, Marsha Blackburn, Adam Mosseri, Sandberg, Chris Cox, Mosseri, ” Blackburn, Louisiana Republican Sen, John Kennedy, we’re, ” Meta, Blumenthal, Cox, Haugen, Hawley, ” Blumenthal, ” CNN’s Samantha Kelly Organizations: Washington CNN, Washington CNN — Meta’s, Facebook, Wall, Meta, CNN, Connecticut Democratic, Big Tech, Tennessee Republican, Louisiana Republican, Wall Street, “ Big Tech, Tobacco Locations: Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal . Missouri, Instagram
Meta , the owner of Instagram and Facebook, said Wednesday that its security staff had detected a possible hacking attempt on pro-Palestinian accounts with millions of followers and locked the accounts while it tries to reach the account owners. But Meta said late Wednesday that it had disabled the accounts because of security concerns. "These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise, and we're working to make contact with the account owners to ensure they have access," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement. The account owners couldn't be reached by NBC News for comment Wednesday, including by email. "These accounts were initially locked for security reasons after signs of compromise," Stone said in a text message.
Persons: @eye.on.palestine, It's, Meta, Andy Stone, Stone, couldn't, We've, X didn't Organizations: Hamas, West Bank, Meta, Facebook, NBC News, Palestine Telegram Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Hebron, Palestine
A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general is suing Meta over addictive features aimed at kids and teens, the AGs announced Tuesday. The support from so many state AGs of different political backgrounds indicates a significant legal challenge to Meta's business. Besides New York, the states that filed the federal suit include California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin. It's also not the first time a broad coalition of state AGs have teamed up to go after Meta. Meta was well aware of the negative effects its design could have on its young users, the AGs allege.
Persons: Letitia James, It's, Meta, James, , Frances Haugen, Instagram, Haugen, Brian Schwalb, Schwalb, Andy Stone, We're, Joe Biden, Jim Cramer Organizations: AGs, Meta, Northern District of, New York, Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, Street, CNBC, State Locations: Northern District, Northern District of California, New York, California , Colorado , Louisiana , Nebraska, South Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin, America
One user's bio had been translated to say: "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom." AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta has apologized for Instagram's auto-translation feature adding "Palestinian terrorist" to the bio of some users, despite the original descriptions containing no such wording. The TikToker showed that his Instagram bio had a line that contained three elements — "Palestinian" in English, a Palestinian flag emoji, and the Arabic phrase "alhamdulillah." Instagram's auto-translation software converted the entire line to "Praise be to God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom," along with the Palestinian flag emoji, according to the video. In a statement to several outlets, a Meta spokesperson said the issue was fixed earlier this week.
Persons: Meta, , 404media, Andy Stone, Stone Organizations: Service, Palestinian, Guardian Locations: Palestinian, Palestine
The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media platforms no longer want to deal with the news. AdvertisementAdvertisementNot too long ago, social media was the future of news. To accompany this flow of verified information, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies built large content moderation teams and partnerships. Reading these, it's easy to see how social media can divide people during difficult times. The social media account posed as a BBC journalist to share this misinformation for engagement.
Persons: , Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk's, Adam Mosseri, Karan Singhal, Singhal, there's, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcus Hutchins, Mosseri, we're, Andy Stone, Zuckerberg, Alex Stamos, TikTok Organizations: Service, Facebook, Twitter, Elon Musk's Twitter, CNBC, BBC, Palestinian, Meta Locations: Israel, Moroccan, Israeli, Syria, Meta, France, Germany, Canada
“Getting information from social media is likely to lead to you being severely disinformed,” said Ahmed. Everyone from US foreign adversaries to domestic extremists to internet trolls and “engagement farmers” has been exploiting the war on social media for their own personal or political gain, he added. “Bad actors surrounding us have been manipulating, confusing and trying to create deception on social media platforms,” Dan Brahmy, CEO of the Israeli social media threat intelligence firm Cyabra, said Thursday in a video posted to LinkedIn. The dynamic simultaneously highlights the business models of social media and the role the companies play in carefully calibrating their users’ experiences. ‘Be very cautious about sharing’Despite giving the impression of reality and truthfulness, Brookie said, individual stories and combat footage conveyed through social media often lack the broader perspective and context that journalists, research organizations and even social media moderation teams apply to a situation to help achieve a fuller understanding of it.
Persons: , Gazans, Pepe, Imran Ahmed, Ahmed, , Dan Brahmy, , ’ Graham Brookie, Islamophobic, Elon Musk, it’s, ” Imran Ahmed, ” Brian Fishman, ” Linda Yaccarino, “ We’ve, Andy Stone, Snapchat, TikTok, ” Ahmed, ” Brookie, Brookie Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, , Twitter, European Union, Facebook, YouTube, Center, LinkedIn, Digital Forensic Research, Atlantic Council, European Commission, European, Digital Services Locations: New York, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, London, Egypt, Islamophobic, Washington ,, United Kingdom, United States
The long-hyped possibility of a cage match between tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk appears to be no more, after Zuckerberg dismissed Musk for allegedly delaying their anticipated showdown in the ring. But in his latest comments on the matter, Zuckerberg said that while he was ready to fight, Musk kept coming up with reasons he couldn't. Musk previously claimed he may need surgery before fighting his rival. Shortly after, in responding to an X user who joked about Zuckerberg being trained in the Brazilian combat sport of jiujitsu, Musk responded, "I'm up for a cage match if he is lol." Musk and Zuckerberg are the second and 16th richest people on the planet, respectively, according to Forbes' most recent list of billionaires.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, Musk, Elon isn't, Dana White, Elon, Meta, Andy Stone, — that's, Forbes Organizations: Facebook, Meta, Twitter, Las, New York Times, UFC, TMZ Locations: Las Vegas, Palo
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, his wife, are separating. Trudeau's announcement came as Meta began to cut off news availability in Canada. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Stone said Meta would begin rolling out its changes over the next few weeks. Trudeau is expected to remain prime minister of the G7 nation through 2025, thanks to a deal his party helped broker last year.
Persons: Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Meta, Sophie, Trudeau, Grégoire, we've, Andy Stone, Stone Organizations: Canadian, PM, Meta, Service, Privacy, Wednesday, CBC, Facebook, Twitter Locations: Canada, Wall, Silicon
Total: 25