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The Chelsea midfielder scored reached his half century of goals in the English top flight with a wonderful whipped finish in the fourth minute of the Blues’ visit to Swansea City on Saturday. Three other players have achieved the feat before the Spaniard – Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and Ryan Giggs. The 30-year-old made his Premier League debut for Arsenal in 2004 before joining Barcelona in 2011. He returned to London in 2014, joining Chelsea for more than £30million....

The World Cup-winning midfielder was heavily linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge during the summer transfer window in 2017. He eventually stayed put and has remained an important part of Antonio Conte’s plans throughout a testing campaign in west London. Fabregas sees no reason why he should be looking for a move elsewhere, despite Chelsea’s struggles this season, with his family settled in England and a contract keeping him tied to the Blues until 2019....

It was not immediately apparent what banned content the companies were supposed to take down, but the decision may signal a heightened push in the country to control political opposition on social media. Facebook’s $236,000 fine and Telegram’s $139,000 fine are the second set of fees both platforms have been ordered to pay in the course of a few weeks. Facebook had been fined $362,000 for failure to take down content presumed unlawful by Russian authorities, while Telegram was ordered to pay $69,000 after not taking down calls for protests....

New PHP Version of Ducktail Malware Puts Facebook Users at Risk Facebook Business account holders are now exposed to a new threat, which comes in the form of a PHP variant of the Ducktail malware program. ZScaler, a cloud security company, reported this new finding in a ZScaler blog post on October 13th. The new PHP version is being spread among devices by “pretending to be a free/cracked application installer”. It also targets various platforms for infection, including Telegram and Microsoft Office apps....

The dozens of internal Facebook documents obtained by the outlet showed how employees have expressed concerns about how the social media giant is being used in countries across the globe and how Facebook has failed to properly respond to these issues. Some of the documents reportedly showed that Facebook employees raised concerns about human trafficking organizations in the Middle East that used Facebook to attract women. Other documents showed Facebook employees alerting their higher-ups of groups involved in organ selling and pornography....

The questioning came as the U.K. government works to refine online safety legislation aimed at curbing the power of social media companies and better protecting users. Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of global safety, said that she disagrees with critics who accuse the platform of amplifying hate, citing societal issues instead. She also claimed that the company uses artificial intelligence to take down content that can be divisive but didn’t specify the extent to which the systems are able to pinpoint such harmful content, AP reported....

As more people are relying on live video and interactive experiences over the past few months as a result of Covid-19, businesses have moved to online events when they can’t meet with clients face to face. According to Facebook, in June the number of live broadcasts from Pages doubled compared to June 2019. It also found that only 19% of businesses were getting any financial support, according to a survey in its State of Small Business Report....

2. Dejar de mostrar cuando estás online Como seguramente sabes, Facebook Messenger indica cuando estás online incluso cuando no lo estás. Obviamente, esto solo significa que estás localizable, pero puede conducir a malentendidos bastante incómodos. Puedes detener este comportamiento iniciando Messenger, tocando el icono de tu perfil en la parte superior derecha y seleccionando ‘Estado activo’. Si no quieres aparecer online, desliza el interruptor junto a ‘Mostrar cuando estés activo(a)’....

Facebook was originally collecting an amount of this data through Onavo Protect, a VPN service that it acquired back in 2013. It is suggested that the data Facebook has collected through these methods has helped it to spot current or future competitors, which then allows them to acquire or clone them. The Facebook Research app was removed from the App Store about 6 months ago after Apple complained about it violating its guidelines on data collection....

The logo is a very 2019 plain uppercase typeface that (in the below GIF) transitions from blue (Facebook) to green (WhatsApp) to pink (Instagram) to show you just how much of your data one company owns. It means this isn’t the new Facebook app or website branding but the logo you’ll see appear in various places in WhatsApp and Instagram like the login page, and in all future corporate communications from Facebook as a wider company....

Created to search for posts violating rules on hate speech and violence, Facebook’s own automation found with almost 90 percent certainty that one particular post from Trump broke the company’s regulations. That post came just days after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes on May 25, 2020, resulting in the death of the 46-year-old Black man. A bystander’s video of the incident quickly went viral and protests erupted across the country....

This new prototype headset, which utilizes holographic optics and “polarization-based optical folding” according to the Facebook Research Blog post, can apparently achieve a field of view comparable to current consumer VR products using a less than 9 mm thick display. Based on a proof-of-concept video released by Facebook that shows off the device running a driving simulator, there definitely appears to be potential here. RELATED: Sony Patent Hints at PlayStation VR 2 for PS5...

The company first suspended the former president indefinitely on January 7—the day after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—because it believed Trump’s statements were contributing to rather than diminishing the risk of ongoing violence. Facebook’s oversight board upheld that decision last month, ruling it was justified in temporarily taking away his account but criticized the “open-ended” nature of the suspension. “We are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr....

Russian Troll Groups Infiltrate Facebook Once Again Facebook removed three Russian networks for violating its coordinated inauthentic behavior policy. This comes just after Facebook removed a China-run group for reportedly interfering with American and Southeast Asian politics. The social media giant outlined the details of the takedowns in an About Facebook blog post. According to the post, Facebook removed a total of over 300 Facebook accounts, pages, and groups that were linked to Russian intelligence....

Being able to video call over WhatsApp might make the Portal a more tempting buy if you didn’t want to make calls over Messenger (remembering WhatsApp is owned by Facebook). The company also added Workplace, Facebook’s coworking app, in case you want to place professional calls over the service. It also added Watch Together to let you watch Facebook content simultaneously over video with someone else on a Portal....

There’s only one year (17 races) when they faced off in equal machinery and equal status. The opinion differs vastly as to who the favored driver (even if marginally) was at McLaren-Mercedes in 2007, but it most definitely was the rookie Lewis Hamilton as the championship rolled on. Fernando Alonso, the reigning and defending 2-time world champion felt slighted by the promised reneged by team principal Ron Dennis to give him the number 1 status in the quest for a third consecutive drivers’ championship....

Victory in Singapore, by an astounding 32.6 seconds from Alonso’s Ferrari, looks to be the final nail in the coffin, and it was never in doubt from the point at which Nico Rosberg failed to make his first corner overtaking attempt stick. As usual, Vettel seemingly effortlessly moved away from the rest, building a comfortable lead, which allowed him to control the race. Things might have changed when the safety car was deployed mid-race after Vettel’s future team-mate, Daniel Ricciardo, crashed his Toro Rosso on lap 25....

Best Drives Charles Leclerc’s best performances of the season have arguably been in qualifying, where he’s dragged his Sauber into Q3 on a number of occasions. The Sauber car is far better than last year’s, but it’s by no means as fast as the Renault’s and Haas’ of this world, making it into the top 10 is a huge achievement. Despite a 6th place in Azerbaijan, Leclerc’s most impressive display was probably during the previous round in Russia....

LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One cannot be run like a dictatorship, even if many people in the sport are used to that, according to the new chairman appointed to work with commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Chase Carey, who took on the role as part of Liberty Media’s takeover of the sport this month, said also that Formula One’s U.S. expansion should ultimately look at big cities like Los Angeles, New York or Miami....

The typhoon, which is scheduled to make landfall on Saturday, has already forced the cancellation of two Rugby World Cup matches - England’s clash with France and New Zealand’s meeting with Italy. With final practice and qualifying due to take place at Suzuka the same day, race organisers have confirmed they are monitoring the progress of the storm ahead of this weekend’s event. “The FIA, Formula One, Suzuka Circuit and the Japanese Automobile Federation are closely monitoring Typhoon Hagibis and its potential impact on the 2019 FIA Formula One Japanese Grand Prix,” an F1 statement read....