Facebook – not for everyone and not for everything
Teachers don’t want students to find them, doctors don’t want patients to find them and people like you don’t want anyone in their past to find them. Facebook has many privacy settings – anything from public viewing to “only me,” where no one but you can see.
Making up for lost time (or trying to) online
I’m new in the neighbourhood, having opened a Facebook account only eight months ago.
UPDATED: Facebook removes JDL Canada’s page, calls group ‘dangerous’
For the second time in a month, Facebook took down the page of the Jewish Defence League of Canada, citing as the reason its “community standards” policy on “dangerous organizations.”
UPDATED: Facebook explains flip-flop on Jewish genocide post
After declining to explain why it initially refused to remove an anti-Semitic post from the comments on an Alberta professor’s page, Facebook said it erred in allowing the screed to stay up and subsequently took it down. On Aug. 26, B’nai Brith Canada was notified about a photograph and adjoining paragraph that a Facebook user […]
Israel mulls legislation to stop incitement on social media
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan proposes new legislation that would compel social media platforms to remove posts deemed to directly incite murder or violence
Your morning spiel for Monday, Jan. 18
Today in the news: Martin Luther King day, Facebook incitement, terrorism strikes in Israel, weapons expert claims Hamas murdered Palestinian boys on the beach, Pope Francis visits synagogue, and more
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg donates $31 million to charity
The majority of the money will go to women’s empowerment groups and Lean In, Sandberg’s non-profit supporting women in the workplace
Kuwaiti student expelled from prestigious French university for anti-Semitism
Amira Jumaa is the first student to be expelled from Sciences Po University since it was founded in 1872
Your morning spiel for Tuesday, Jan. 5
Today in the news: BDS, Charlie Hebdo, Tel Aviv shooter, Facebook (and its possible anti-Israel bias), and more
WATCH: Experiment aims to prove Facebook’s anti-Israel bias
Two Facebook pages were launched, one spreading hate against Israel, and one against Palestine. Only one, however, was taken down by Facebook
