Social information processing

September 25, 2018, Sofia - Ivan Dimov is one of the 115 finalists in the Facebook Community Leadership Program (FCLP). The program kicks off this week and aims to develop the leadership skills of group and page administrators and in the social network.

AFP - Facebook said Thursday it will invest over $1 billion to build a data centre in Singapore, its first in Asia, powered by renewable energy and adapted to the city-state's tropical climate.

Germany's top court ruled on July 12 that Facebook should grant a grieving mother access to her dead daughter's account, in a landmark judgment for how social network data is treated after its owners pass away.

Daily Mail - Facebook on Wednesday announced its first original news shows for the social network, joining other online platforms producing video to compete with television.

The news shows will be produced for Facebook by a variety of partners including CNN, Fox News, ABC News and Univision.

Facebook has said it has suspended "around 200" apps on its platform as part of an investigation into misuse of private user data.

Bulgaria is no longer included in the so called "Blacklist" of countries from which US protects intellectual property, bTV said. The document is known as "Special List 301". Bulgaria has invariably been in it for the past 5 years.

If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected by it. The online social network is making changes that ensure the number will be much smaller.

Facebook is a global ecosystem, linking everyone and everything instantaneously, directly, without checks, without mediators, without end. In just a few years, this virtual space became the home of 2 billion people, who express their hopes, fears, wishes and accomplishments in it, who praise and vilify each other, who communicate nonstop.

Facebook took out full-page ads in European newspapers April 16 to trumpet tough new EU legislation that promises "more data protection for you," as the company seeks to win back trust following a damaging privacy scandal.

Under fire for the worst privacy debacle in his company's history, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg batted away often-aggressive questioning from lawmakers who accused him of failing to protect the personal information of millions of Americans from Russians intent on upsetting the U.S. election.