/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1288/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-whistleblower-frances-haugen-says-facebook-making-online-hate-worse-334442 <p>Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told British lawmakers that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing strong momentum for efforts by European governments working on stricter regulation of tech giants. While her testimony echoed much of what she told the U.S. Senate earlier this month, her appearance drew intense interest from a British parliamentary committee that is much further along in drawing up legislation to crack down on social platforms.</p> Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:22:54 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 282252 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-back-online-after-global-outage-333966 <p>Facebook and Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp were up and running again late Monday after being hit by an outage that affected users around the world. The social media giant said the disruption to network traffic "had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt." It said there is no evidence that user data was comprised. It was the largest such outage ever tracked by the web monitoring group Downdetector, which collates complaints about web outages.</p> Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:04:59 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 278398 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-facebook-board-upholds-donald-trump-suspension-330965 <p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump won't return to Facebook – at least not yet. Four months after Facebook suspended Trump's accounts for inciting violence that led to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the company's quasi-independent oversight board upheld the bans. But it told Facebook to specify how long they would last, saying that its "indefinite" ban on the former president was unreasonable. The ruling, which gives Facebook six months to comply, effectively postpones any possible Trump reinstatement and puts the onus for that decision squarely back on the company.</p> Mon, 10 May 2021 19:46:59 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 264628 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-apple-users-can-say-no-being-tracked-new-software-update-330714 <p>Apple rolled out a software update for its mobile devices that gives users the option of stopping apps from tracking their location and sharing other identifying information with third parties. Services such as Facebook and others currently have the ability to track users on mobile devices in order to learn more about them to target advertisements and other location-based services to them. In some instances, the tracking is in place even if the user is not actively using the app in question.</p> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:09:36 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 261899 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-researcher-head-facebooks-new-montreal-ai-lab-270309 <p><span>Facebook is opening a new Artificial Intelligence Research Lab in Montreal — FAIR Montreal. This is the company’s first research and development investment in Canada, and only its fourth AI research lab in all. Prof. Joelle Pineau, from the School of Computer Science and co-director of ƻ����Ժ’s Reasoning & Learning Lab, will head the new Montreal AI lab while maintaining her academic position at the university.</span></p> Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:49:12 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32290 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/your-friends-have-more-friends-you-do-260887 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, <a href="/newsroom">ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Research uncovers the inherently hierarchical nature of social media</em></p> Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:09 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25842 at /newsroom /newsroom/faculty-and-staff/socialmedia/social-media-guidelines <p>These guidelines mainly cover the appropriate use by individuals representing their faculty, department or unit. They do not supplant any <a href="/secretariat/policies-and-regulations" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">University Policies, Procedures and Guidelines</a>. They also apply to students who have permission to post on university social media sites. </p> <p>While intended to guide social media managers, these guidelines  may also benefit employee or student groups and individuals who maintain and monitor professional and personal sites. </p> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:05:25 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 18096 at /newsroom /newsroom/faculty-and-staff/socialmedia <h2>Social media at ƻ����Ժ</h2> <p>The goal of ƻ����Ժ social media pages is to strengthen our community, which includes students, faculty and alumni. The aim is to provide information about the University to the public and the internal community, celebrate our successes, promote events, publicize campus news and promote networking. </p> <p>ƻ����Ժ University encourages all ƻ����Ժ faculties, departments to become involved in using social media in communications with stakeholders. ƻ����Ժ’s social media team provides guidance to faculties on how best to use social media toward communications goals, as the manager/moderator of an account for department or faculty.  </p> <p>ƻ����Ժ's centrally-managed social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube are carefully managed by the social media team to preserve the trust that we've established with our audiences. </p> <p>We have an audience that expects an authentic, authoritative voice on news and general information about the University.  </p> <p>Through our stories and news on successes of the University community, or campus life, we are proud promoters of the community’s achievements, initiatives, and major University events. </p> <table> <tr> <td>ƻ����Ժ fosters freedom of expression, while valuing respect and collegiality. Participants on our social media channels are expected to treat each other, and us, with respect. We reserve the right to remove the following: Comments deemed offensive, vulgar or profane; comments off-topic and/or unrelated to posted content; content that promotes services or products, content that infringes on an individual's safety, privacy or copyright. A user will be blocked after repeated breaches.</td> </tr> </table> <p>We accept submissions for broadcasting items from the internal community on our social channels, but use our discretion on what we will publish and how it will be framed. Items must be suitable, of interest, and of importance to a majority or an important segment of our audience. The shared items will be framed and shared in our own “voice”. If not of wide appeal to our audience, we can direct you to the many unit, faculty or department social media platforms where items may be more suitable. </p> <p>The views expressed and published on ƻ����Ժ’s social media channels by a participant, invitee, expert, guest or other person are not necessarily the views of ƻ����Ժ. We do not endorse any opinions expressed by users, nor accept responsibility or liability for the comments, statements or claims of users on our accounts.</p> <p>For enquiries or further information about ƻ����Ժ’s social media channels please email <span class="spamspan"><span class="u">info.communications</span> [at] <span class="d">mcgill.ca</span><span class="e"><!--target="_blank"--></span></span></p> <p>Our audiences include: </p> <p>Internal: students, faculty, staff </p> <p>External: prospective students, alumni, journalists, government (municipal, provincial, federal, international), friends of the University, other academic communities and their members. </p> <p>Next:</p> <div class="bl-tpl"><a class="button--outline" href="/newsroom/socialmedia/guidelines">Social media guidelines</a></div> <p> Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:57:16 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 10 at /newsroom