Facebook has todayannouncedtwo new features aimed at improving security on the platform. First up is full support for HTTPS connections – this means that your entire session with Facebook can be more secure. The move will please those who use open wi-fi networks and worry about snooping tools likeFiresheepbeing able to allow others to access their data. HTTPS is already used as standard on Facebook login pages, but will now work across the whole site if you activate it....

Facebook’s role in Egypt’s current state of affairs has once again begun to make headlines, but for a very different reason. While Facebook has often been linked to the Egyptian uprising which brought down the government of former president, Hosny Mubarak, the social network has now become a small but significant part of his ongoing trial. The former president is facing charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters following the uprising that began on January 25, calling for him to step down....

Facebook has been barely impacted by big advertisers’ boycott — here’s why United front To put real pressure on Facebook to change its content moderation policies requires an unparalleled level of unity across the advertising world. This includes ad agencies as well as the advertisers themselves. While the content of ads tends to be created by advertising agencies in conjunction with the companies that are being advertised, the location of where these ads appears is mostly decided by thead agency....

Ads on Facebook have pretty much always had their place ; we know they’re going to pop up on the right hand side, clearly labelled under sponsored content. And up until the introduction of Sponsored Stories, we knew exactly what these ads looked like. They looked like – ads – promoting a service or company and following a standard format. Sponsored Stories changed that once when the content advertised became ‘natural’ stories on Facebook....

If you had gotten used to navigating Facebook’s settings, time to wake up and get to work again. Because the company is rolling out a redesigned settings page on its mobile apps. The new design has a total of six categories:Account, Preferences, Audience and Visibility, Permissions, Your Information, and Community Standards and Legal Policies. With this design change, some of the earlier sections such as Security, Privacy, Ads, and News Feed settings have been clubbed under some of these categories....