From a domestic violence nonprofit in Colombia to a bakery in Canada, the world discovered how much it depends on Facebook when its services went down nyti.ms
@nytimesworld6 years ago
Facebook never set out to be what is arguably one of the most powerful arbiters of political speech in the world. But some say that is exactly what it has become. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Facebook had envisioned building a fleet of solar-powered drones beaming the internet to remote parts of the world. It has now halted that effort. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Academics around the world have compiled hundreds of Facebook data sets over the years. Those information hoards now pose a privacy risk. nyti.ms
Meet the "Liam Bot." This chatbot helps Facebook employees answer difficult questions about the social network's role in the world. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
The New York Times is starting a group on Facebook to discuss China’s impact in the world, and we’d like to invite you to join nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Facebook had envisioned building a fleet of solar-powered drones beaming the internet to remote parts of the world. It has now halted that effort. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
How everyday Facebook users become real-world extremists nyti.ms
@nytimesworld9 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg vowed to work with Chinese peers to “build a better world in cyberspace.” nyti.ms t.co
@nytimesworld6 years ago
Secretive Egyptian and Emirati companies worked to bolster authoritarian regimes in the Arab world by creating fake social media accounts, before Facebook cracked down nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Is Facebook fueling real-world violence? Our reporters criss-crossed Germany to trace how the social network alters the way people think and behave. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Facebook has halted its efforts to build drones that would beam the internet to remote parts of the world nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Egypt has the largest community of Facebook users in the Arab world. That has brought promise -- and perils. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld10 years ago
World leaders don't Facebook or use What's App. @narendramodi & Barack Obama have their own hotline. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld6 years ago
“It is winter on the ninth highest peak in the world,” Mr. Ballard wrote in a Facebook post in January. “No picnic.” nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
"More opinionated, more extreme, more engaged, more everything": How Facebook fuels real-world racial violence, according to groundbreaking new research from Germany nyti.ms
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Inflammatory Facebook posts have stoked ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka, setting off a wave of attacks against Muslims. How do false rumors on social media fuel real-world violence? nyti.ms
@nytimesworld8 years ago
The World Wide Web has fragmented. Even Facebook is having trouble navigating the internet's new reality. nyti.ms t.co