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Facebook Data Breach Affects At Least 50 Million Users If you found yourself logged out of Facebook this morning, you were in good company. Facebook forced more than 90 million Facebook users to log out and back into their accounts Friday morning in response to a massive data breach . According to Facebook’s announcement , it detected earlier this week that attackers had hacked a feature of Facebook that could allow them to take over at least 50 million user accounts. At this point, information is scant: Facebook does not know who’s behind the attacks or where they are from, and the estimate of compromised accounts could rise as the company’s investigation continues. It is also unclear the extent to which user data was accessed and accounts misused. What is clear is that the attack—like many security exploits—took advantage of the interaction of several parts of Facebook’s code. At the center of this is the “View As” feature, which you can use to see how your profile appears to...

Facebook Deletes Anti-Unite the Right Event, Claiming Russian Involvement Facebook stumbled this week—again—in its effort to police “misinformation”: it deleted an event page for the anti-fascist protest “No Unite the Right 2 – DC.” Facebook justified the deletion by claiming that the event was initially created by an “inauthentic” organization with possible Russian connections . In fact, a number of legitimate local organizations and activists had become involved in administering and planning the event. These activists weren’t given an opportunity by Facebook to explain or present evidence that they were involved in what had become a very real protest. Nor were they given a chance to dispute claims that the original organizers had Russian connections. So what makes a protest “real”? Is it who organizes it, or who attends? And what happens when a bad actor creates an event with the intent to sow discord, but prospective attendees take it seriously and make it their own? These ar...