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Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on security upgrades, U.S. media organizations have failed to properly protect their newsrooms from cyberattacks on their websites, communications systems and even editing platforms — opening themselves up to the possibility of a chaos-creating hack around Election Day. In just the past month, BuzzFeed has been vandalized, and…
Hyperpartisan political Facebook pages and websites are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News. The review of more than 1,000 posts from six large hyperpartisan Facebook pages selected from the right and from the left also found that the least accurate pages generated some of…
Samsung apparently doesn’t see much humor in a Grand Theft Auto V mod that turns the recalled, hazardous Galaxy Note 7 into an in-game weapon. In fact, the company is trying to erase it from the internet completely. Samsung has issued a DMCA takedown targeting a YouTube video that showcased the mod, which gives the Note…
How do you make a recipe exciting? BuzzFeed figured it out. “The world of recipes had not been reinvented beyond a list of text and an image forever,” BuzzFeed Entertainment Group President Ze Frank said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka. Chocolate Chip Banana Monkey Bread FULL RECIPE: http://bzfd.it/2d4aeeN Posted by…
Image: Sam Wooley` It’s been 27 days since Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and former Facebook golden child, has been seen or heard from publicly. On September 23, Luckey issued this statement on his funding of and involvement in Nimble America, a pro-Trump, anti-Hillary Clinton political advocacy group with the stated mission of…
A classy individual. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School, a leading advocate for campaign finance reform, and short-lived presidential candidate. He was also, in the view of the Clinton campaign, circa August 2015, a “smug,” “pompous,” loathsome guy whom a reasonable person might wish “to kick the shit…
Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company’s wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management’s thinking. The producer of family fare like “Finding Dory” had gone so far…
Dive Brief: In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook announced Live API, a new tool that allows publishers to schedule Facebook Live streaming video broadcasts in advance. The blog post explained the tool was added to Facebook Live following publisher demand. TechCrunch points out that the ability to schedule live streams eliminates the frustration of announcing…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook board member Peter Thiel’s support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a post that invoked the importance of “diversity” for the social media company. “We care deeply about diversity. That’s easy to say when it means standing up for ideas you agree with. It’s a lot harder when…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and CFO Ken Goldman Screenshot Yahoo had one main objective when it reported Q3 results on Tuesday: to show Wall Street that there hasn’t been a mass exodus of users after the news of its big hack attack. To make the case, Yahoo showed off several charts that indicated healthy traffic trends across its…