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Facebook employees criticize Mark Zuckerberg for being Neutral over Protest
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Facebook employees criticize Mark Zuckerberg for being Neutral over Protest

New York, Jun 2, 2020: Some Facebook employees criticize Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg's inaction over President Donald Trump post that suggested protesters in Minneapolis could be shot. While arch-rival of Facebook, Twitter took the stand and placed a warning on President's tweet about the protests “when the looting starts the shooting starts,” while Facebook founder Zuckerberg took the neutral stand and leave it to US authorities. “I know many people are upset that we've left the President's posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause an imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies,” Zuckerberg wrote. The tweets of President Trump evoked the civil-rights era by borrowing a phrase...
Facebook glitch exposes 600 million users passwords to its 20,000 employees
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Facebook glitch exposes 600 million users passwords to its 20,000 employees

AFP: Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has resolved a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees. The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, cybersecurity blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported in the issue, said in its report. "These passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them," the company said. A senior Facebook employee said, "an internal investigation by the company so far indicates that between 200 million to 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text." Facebook said the issue was d...