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Facebook’s ‘free speech’ claims don’t work when democracy is crumbling | Julia Carrie Wong

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 NewsEditorFacebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Social networking, Technology, US news, US politics, World news

What do Zuckerbergs bromides about American values mean to Facebook users in Kashmir or the Philippines? When Facebook wrote to Joe Bidens campaign to say it would not back down from its decision to exempt politicians from its ban on advertising false statements, it was not Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg who signed op-ed in USA Today this week. Fundamentally we believe that, in a democracy, its better to let voters make their own decisions, not companies like Facebook. Amid all this attention, Harbaths the goes, Harbath is a Trojan…

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Mark Zuckerberg Says He Wont Antagonize Warren Anymore

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 NewsEditorElizabeth Warren, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broadcast a Thursday question-and-answer session with employees where he sought to downplay the controversy over leaks from a similar session earlier this week and promised to try not to antagonize Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) anymore. On Tuesday, the Verge published Facebook said it would not abandon plans to encrypt messages sent via Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct in response to a letter from Attorney General William Barr requesting law enforcement access to messages on the companys apps. The net worth is roughly $67 billion. No one…

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Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Facebook Over Leaked Mark Zuckerberg Audio

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 NewsEditorElizabeth Warren, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Sen. Warrens plan to break up big tech companies during an internal Q&A session and expressed concern about the prospect. According to the Facebook post, Zuckerberg confirmed the authenticity of the audio: Even though it was meant to be internal rather than public, now that its out there, you can check it out if you're interested in seeing an unfiltered version of what I'm thinking and telling employees on a bunch of topics. At issue is a plan from the Massachusetts Democrat entailed unwinding major mergers like Amazons ownership of…

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Mark Zuckerberg Will Do a Reluctant Second Round With Congress

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 NewsEditorCongress, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley

hearing is set for October 23 and will examine Facebook's potential influence on financial services and housing. But with Congressional cameos from major tech CEOs as rare as they arethey generally send product leads or lawyers to represent them in questioningZucks grilling is likely to cover a range of issues, from Facebook's bad habit of buying up competitors to its supposed anti-conservative bias, a favorite pet topic of House Republicans. A Facebook spokesperson told The Daily Beast that Mark looks forward to testifying before the House Financial Services Committee and…

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Europes top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 NewsEditorBelgium, CJEU, data controller, data processing, Europe, European Parliament, European Union, Facebook, Facebook Like Button, General Data Protection Regulation, Law, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, privacy, Social Media, targeted advertising, terms of service, trackers

Europe’s top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region. The ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU states such sites are jointly responsible for the initial data processing — and must either obtain informed consent from site visitors prior to data being transferred to Facebook, or be able to demonstrate a legitimate interest legal basis for processing this data. The ruling is significant because, as currently seems to be the case, Facebook’s…

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Facebook Suit Reveals Ukrainian Hackers Used Quizzes to Take Data from 60,000 Users

March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 NewsEditorFacebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Two Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that exfiltrated their profile data and friends lists to offshore servers, according a federal lawsuit the company filed late Friday. The men, Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, allegedly used the browser extensions to overlay their own advertisements onto Facebooks news feed when their victims visited through the compromised browsers. The company doesnt offer a motive for the data-scraping, but it may have been used to work friends names into the ad copy,…

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What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 NewsEditor2018 Year in Review, Facebook, fake news, Mark Zuckerberg, Russian election interference

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn’t study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough, faced, as he now is, with an existential crisis of ‘fake news’ simultaneously undermining trust in his own empire and in democracy itself. A recent New Yorker profile — questioning whether the Facebook founder can fix the creation he pressed upon the world before the collective counter-pressure emanating from his billions-strong social network does for democracy what Brutus did to Caesar — touched in passing on Zuckerberg’s admiration for Augustus, the first emperor of…

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UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 NewsEditorCambridge Analytica, Damian Collins, data misuse, Data protection, DCMS committee, Elizabeth Denham, European Union, Facebook, fake news, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Schroepfer, online disinformation, Richard Allan, Social Media, social media regulation, United Kingdom

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online disinformation for the best part of this year — and whose repeat requests for facetime he’s just as repeatedly snubbed. In the latest high gear change, reported in yesterday’s Observer, the committee has used parliamentary powers to seize a cache of documents pertaining to a US lawsuit to further its attempt to hold Facebook to account for misuse of user data. Facebook’s oversight — or rather lack of it — where…

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Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 NewsEditorArgentina, Australia, Canada, Damian Collins, data protection law, DCMS, Election Interference, Facebook, fake news, Ireland, London, Mark Zuckerberg, online disinformation, Russia, Social Media, United Kingdom, Zuckerberg

Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation to face questions from a grand committee comprised of representatives from five international parliaments. MPs from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ireland and the UK have joined forces to try to pile pressure on the company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to answer questions related to his “platform’s malign use in world affairs and democratic process”. The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, which has been running an enquiry into online disinformation for the best…

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Goodbye Tinder: Facebooks New Dating App Finally Allows You To Romantically Connect With Your Dads Friend Who Likes All Your Posts Even Though Youve Never Met Him

August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 NewsEditorClickHole, Dating, Facebook, Incredible, Mark Zuckerberg, Relationships, Tinder

Online dating can be a serious headache, and it’s more likely you’ll find yourself stuck in an endless cycle of dead-end first dates than in a compatible match. But if you’re experiencing dating app fatigue, don’t lose hope of finding that special someone just yet, because Facebook just announced a brand-new dating feature that will finally allow you to romantically connect with your dad’s friend who likes all of your posts even though you’ve never met him. Unveiled yesterday at Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference, the social media platform’s incredible…

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Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on Holocaust denial ‘irresponsible’

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 NewsEditorFacebook, Holocaust, Mark Zuckerberg, US news, World news

Facebook founder had suggested site did not need to remove unintentional denial Mark Zuckerberg has been criticised by Jewish groups and anti-racism organisations for suggesting Holocaust denial should be allowed on Facebook because it could be unintentional. In an published in detail in April, a year after the Guardian obtained ban hate speech because it creates an environment of intimidation and exclusion and in some cases may promote real-world violence. But the companys definition of hate speech requires violent or dehumanising speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or…

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Everything Facebook launched at F8 and Why

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018 NewsEditorF8, F8 2018, Facebook, instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Messenger, Oculus, WhatsApp

Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8 here. 1. FaceDate Facebook is launching a dating feature where you can volunteer to make a profile that’s only visible to non-friends who’ve also opted in to looking for love. Facebook will match you based on all its data, and messaging will happen in a dedicated inbox rather than Messenger. Why: If Facebook wants to drive “meaningful…

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Mark Zuckerberg: There will always be a version of Facebook that is free

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 NewsEditorCambridge Analytica, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, zuckerberg testimony

Today during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the Senate, the Facebook CEO reiterated that “there will always be a version of Facebook that is free.” In the midst of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the user data of up to 87 million people was sold by a third-party developer to Trump Campaign-linked firm Cambridge Analytica, there has been talk of Facebook potentially adding a subscription layer. The scandal has brought to light the heart of a problem that many have been well aware of: if you’re not buying a product,…

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Within Facebook, a Sense of Relief Over the Zuckerberg Hearings

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 NewsEditorbusiness, Congress, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

About two hours, or 20 percent, into Mark Zuckerberg’s marathon testimony before Congress this week, the Facebook CEO had a slightly awkward exchange with senator John Cornyn (R-Texas). Cornyn wanted to know what happens to people’s data when they delete their accounts. Zuckerberg responded that Facebook deletes their data. But Cornyn continued, “How about third parties that you have contracted with to use some of that underlying information, perhaps to target advertising for themselves?” To Zuckerberg, this must have been exasperating. As he has said over and over, Facebook doesn’t…

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Facebook data misuse scandal affects substantially more than 50M, claims Wylie

April 14, 2018April 14, 2018 NewsEditorAlexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Mark Zuckerberg

Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share value of the company in recent days and led to the FTC opening a fresh investigation, has suggested the scale of the data leak is substantially larger than has been reported so far. Giving evidence today, to a UK parliamentary select committee that’s investigating the use of disinformation in political campaigning, Wylie said: “The 50 million number is what the media has felt safest to report…