Expert: Whistleblower Frances Haugen says Facebook making online hate worse

Published: 27 October 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to...

Expert: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online after global outage

Published: 6 October 2021

Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were up and running again late Monday after being hit by an outage that affected users around the world. The social media giant said the...

Expert: Facebook board upholds Donald Trump suspension

Published: 10 May 2021

Former U.S. President Donald Trump won't return to Facebook – at least not yet. Four months after Facebook suspended Trump's accounts for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol...

Experts: Apple users can say no to being tracked with new software update

Published: 29 April 2021

Apple rolled out a software update for its mobile devices that gives users the option of stopping apps from tracking their location and sharing other identifying information with third parties....

McGill researcher to head Facebook’s new Montreal AI lab

Published: 15 September 2017

Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal — FAIR Montreal. This is the company’s first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI...

Your friends have more friends than you do

Published: 18 May 2016

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media

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These guidelines mainly cover the appropriate use by individuals representing their faculty, department or unit. They do not supplant any University Policies, Procedures and Guidelines. They also...

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