Social information processing

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has announced that it has become the target of cyberattack, which has halted the site. 

"Wikipedia has been experiencing intermittent outages today as a result of a malicious attack. We're continuing to work on restoring access." the platform announced in a statement.

Facebook extends its facial recognition tools to all users, enabling them to opt out of their use.

The company released the information, stating that it was removing "labeling suggestions" or the so-called tag suggestion. They allowed Facebook to "suggest" another person uploading a photo to tag another user on the system.

Twitter and Facebook have blocked accounts and pages used by Chinese authorities to spread disinformation about the Hong Kong protests, NOVA TV reported. Twitter has suspended over 900 accounts "from within the People's Republic of China (PRC)."

The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly voted to approve fining Facebook roughly bn to settle an investigation into the company's privacy violations that was launched following the Cambridge Analytica revelations, The Guardian wrote.

Commission to the European Parliament approves a draft law that will impose fines on Facebook, Google, Twitter and other social platforms if they do not remove extremist content within one hour of their publication, Reuters reported.

From today, Google is beginning to delete profiles and photos on its Google Plus platform. In this way, the company will stop its entire social network, which was created as a Facebook competitor, reported Econ.bg

Subscribers were warned two months ago about the process of deleting profiles.

The most popular social network - Facebook, which has 2.3 billion users worldwide - is 15 years old, writes bTV.

On February 4, 2004, the creator of the network Mark Zuckerberg launched it online. Today, the company is part of the everyday life of a quarter of humanity.

It costs $ 500 billion on the stock exchange and buys $ 22 billion in net profit per year.

The largest global social media network, Facebook, is launching a content review centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, this week.

The news, first announced by Capital weekly, was confirmed to BIRN by the Head of Corporate Communications for Central and Eastern Europe of the company, Jan Ściegienny, on Tuesday.

The parents of the killed Bosnian youngster whose death has shaken the country want his remains exhumed from Banja Luka, in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, so they can bury them in Austria.

People do love a Facebook challenge, from posting random movie stills through to the albums that define your life, writes mirror.co.uk. But the latest trend could be used for far more sinister purposes argues one writer.