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How Your Depraved Facebook Posts Would Get You Tortured in Other Countries Amnesty app puts your freedom in perspective

How often would your Facebook activity get you beaten, tortured or beheaded in the world's most repressive countries? A lot more often than you'd think. Amnesty International of New Zealand…

May 16, 2013, 9:25 AM EDT

Bakers Burn Their Brand to a Crisp in Epic Facebook Meltdown No wonder Gordon Ramsay ditched them

UPDATE: The bakery is now claiming its social-media accounts were hacked, and that it did not post the incendiary messages. This claim is not being wholeheartedly accepted by commenters on…

May 14, 2013, 5:09 PM EDT

Facebook Home Campaign Improves as No One Wants to Listen to Zuckerberg Yapping On This ad won't get your goat

This "Launch Day" ad for Facebook Home, aka Facebook's new mobile UI, brings the non-pornographic online distractions of one engineer to vivid, Jumanji-esque life. The ad, which is a significant…

April 15, 2013, 9:11 AM EDT

Australian Road Trip Ends Badly for You, and Horribly for Your Facebook Friend TAC's sobering interactive PSA

The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria in Australia hits the road once again to promote safe driving. TAC has taken many different, well, tacks in its previous efforts—ranging from goofy…

April 12, 2013, 8:55 AM EDT

Facebook Pitches Home Sweet Home in New Commercial In-house spot plays up new phone software

Be it never so humble. Facebook is ratcheting up its ubiquitous presence in people's daily lives with its "Home" software for Android devices that more or less turns handsets into…

April 5, 2013, 7:39 AM EDT

NYPD Now Scanning Facebook, Instagram Photos to Identify Criminals Felons, be careful what you post

If you're thinking of committing a felony in New York City anytime soon, keep an eye on how many photos of you are floating around on Facebook and Instagram. The…

April 3, 2013, 10:04 AM EDT

Smirnoff and Absolut Show Their Support for Gay Marriage on Facebook Vodka brands out in front on a historic day

As thousands of consumers changed their Facebook profile pictures to equals signs Tuesday in support of marriage equality—a topic the Supreme Court is considering this week—two vodka brands led the…

March 26, 2013, 9:47 PM EDT

Domino's Thanks 8 Million Facebook Fans by Toppling 50,000 Dominos Another milestone video by CP+B

Domino's doesn't make much use of its namesake domino logo—until now. The pizza chain topples more than 50,000 dominos in the video below from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, as a…

March 5, 2013, 1:25 PM EST

Amazon Pays to Sponsor Controversy Around Its More Notorious Products Blonde 'Anne of Green Gables' is latest Facebook ad fodder

Amazon continues to profit from public mockery of certain products it stocks, with the newest target being a laughably fronted collection of Anne of Green Gables novels. The cover of…

February 11, 2013, 11:19 AM EST

Taco Bell Agrees to Send Facebook Fan a Custom 'Think Outside the Buns' Speedo High-school swimmer asks, and shall receive

Taco Bell's Twitter feed is notoriously lively. Whoever's manning its Facebook page is a bit of a wiseacre, too, but not in a bad way. When a high-school swimmer from…

January 7, 2013, 12:18 PM EST

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