UK parliament's report on fake news and disinformation says “digital gangster” Facebook deliberately broke laws, calls for antitrust, data abuse investigations
for the UK Shona Ghosh / Business Insider : Facebook was destroyed by British lawmakers for its disastrous year, but new laws should not … Adam Satariano / New York Times : Facebook Targeted in Scathing Report by British Parliament Jason Abbruzzese / NBC News : Social media companies need greater oversight, new categorization, U.K. committee determines Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider : Mark Zuckerberg roasted by group of lawmakers, who accuse Facebook's CEO of spectacular leadership failure Michael K. Spencer / FutureSin : Facebook Vs. UK Anti-Trust voting Parliament Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : UK Parliament denounces Facebook as ‘digital gangsters’, calls for regulation Jen Thorpe / Geek News Central : House of Commons Report Calls Facebook “Digital Gangsters” Memex 1.1 : Facebook: the regulatory noose tightens Socialnomics : Facebook In the Doghouse: UK Lawmakers Tony Romm / Washington Post : Facebook ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violated U.K. privacy and competition rules, British lawmakers say Ryan Friedman / The Wrap : Facebook Acted Like ‘Digital Gangsters,’ British Parliament Says Jack Purcher / Patently Apple : Facebook and its Executives are referred to as “Digital Gangsters” in UK's Scathing Parliamentary Report Namerah Saud Fatmi / Neowin : Facebook and other social media companies under fire by British parliament Saqib Shah / Engadget : UK parliament calls Facebook leaders ‘digital gangsters’ Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC : Facebook is a ‘digital gangster’ that urgently needs more regulation, UK lawmakers say Wall Street Journal : U.K. Lawmakers Rebuke Facebook in Call for Social-Media Regulation Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews : Facebook says it is ‘open to meaningful regulation’ … Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review : A UK parliamentary committee has accused Facebook of being “digital gangsters” Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Britain says there are three reasons tech giants must be regulated Rob Quinn / Newser : British Lawmakers Slam Facebook as ‘Digital Gangster’ Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Key takeaways from damning UK report on Facebook's world of “digital gangsters” CNN : UK lawmakers: Facebook ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violated data privacy laws Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian : A digital gangster destroying democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook Rebecca Hill / The Register : Here come the riled MPs (it's private, huh), Facebook's a digital ‘gangster’ … Johnny Lieu / Mashable : The UK government thinks it's time for Facebook to be regulated Carly Page / Inquirer : UK gov report slams Facebook execs as ‘digital gangsters’ Firstpost : Facebook accused of ‘intentionally and knowingly’ violating UK privacy rules House of Commons : Further selected documents ordered from Six4Three Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : UK lawmakers accuse Facebook of intentionally violating data privacy laws Tweets: @dhh : The shortsighted greed and callousness by Facebook is baiting a draconian response from European legislators. “Safe harbor” is up for debate, free speech to be heavily sanctioned, and there'll be few willing to defend Facebook (and thus rest of internet). http://www.nytimes.com/... Ivana Bartoletti / @ivanabartoletti : Facebook can no longer govern itself, UK lawmakers say http://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge > DCMS report includes Compulsory Code of Ethics to be overseen by an independent regulator that has power to issue fines and access algorithms Tom Warren / @tomwarren : It took MPs 18 months to come to the conclusion we all made 18 months ago: Facebook needs to be regulated http://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Pinning this to the top of my timeline (replacing my open questions thread - http://t.co/...), this is my run-down on the @CommonsCMS report released tonight. I attempted to surface important Facebook elements that may be too deep for the general media coverage. http://twitter.com/... Steve Peers / @stevepeers : Just published: the Commons committee report on disinformation and “fake news” - covering Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and more: https://publications.parliament.uk/ ... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Boom. Huge. Report states based on evidence from ICO investigation that Facebook had at least 3 senior managers aware of Cambridge Analytica “breach” prior to Dec 2015. This matters because Guardian reporter said he first called FB on Dec 9 ahead of reporting it Dec 11, 2015. /3 http://twitter.com/... Damian Collins / @damiancollins : In addition to publishing our @CommonsCMS final report on disinformation & ‘fake news’ on Monday, we'll be releasing some previous unpublished documents from the files ordered by the committee from #Six4Three which are also referred to in the report https://www.parliament.uk/... Full Fact / @fullfact : An election called tomorrow would be wide open to abuse—so we welcome the DCMS committee's calls for an overhaul of election and political advertising rules to make them fit for the digital age. But the govt mustn't be allowed to water them down. http://publications.parliament.uk/ ... [1/5] Kate Hannon / @hannonk8 : “The scale of the report - it drew from 170 written submissions & evidence from 73 witnesses... - is without precedent. And it's what contributes to making its conclusions so damning: that the government must now act. That Facebook must be regulated.” http://www.theguardian.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Thread, away we go. @CommonsCMS's (damning) Final Report out. @NBCNews coverage here, closing statement from me: ""The inability for Facebook to prioritize security issues over profit despite being under a FTC Consent Decree in the U.S. speaks volumes" /1 http://www.nbcnews.com/... http://twitter.com/... Drew Kerr / @drewkerr : Whoa: “Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and must be subject to sweeping new legislation.” https://twitter.com/... Jennifer Cohn / @jennycohn1 : “Far from Facebook acting against ‘sketchy’ or ‘abusive’ apps, of which action it has produced no evidence..., it, in fact, worked w/ such apps as an intrinsic part of its business model...This explains why it recruited the people who created them...1/ http://techcrunch.com/... Lidija Davis / @madlid : From UK parliament report - more docs re Six4Three include email from @mvernal: “the real issue...is we only have one tool today (a shotgun) and we give you know [sic] warning when we're going to shoot you in the head” more: http://www.parliament.uk/... http://www.techmeme.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : So...to recap: The ICO issued its report on data and politics on Election Day in '18. Parliament announced it seized reams of internal Facebook documents over Thanksgiving weekend. The committee will release its final report on fake news and more FB docs on President's Day. http://twitter.com/... Yohko Hatada / @yohkohatada : “Company broke privacy & competition law and should be regulated urgently” -proposes comprehensive new regulations, incl mandatory code of ethics & indpndt regulator empowered to bring legal proceedings agnst SM comps & force them to hand over user data. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : UK Lawmakers: “There is now an urgent need to establish independent regulation.” “Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law"http://publications.parliament.uk/ ... Makena Kelly / @kellymakena : UK lawmakers are seeking heightened regulation for Facebook in a new report following their over 18-month long investigation into the company's privacy practices https://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NEW: Facebook “intentionally and knowingly” violated privacy and completion laws in the UK, lawmakers there say, in sweeping report that calls for investigations and more regulation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : We knew this. I expect the report will back it up even further. The company still has the same leadership, same governance and same business model, and it's very difficult to understand, other than Facebook's verbal promises, what would prevent this from happening again. http://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : This report with significance attention on Facebook will be released at 7pm ET for those here in the States. I'll summarize key items maybe not obvious to those jumping in and out on the many hearings. Relevant to FTC and AGs here. see my pinned tweet on questions unanswered. http://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Woah. I'm a broken record here but DCMS has been leading the globe in trying to uncover the truth here despite Facebook's obfuscations. And they just signaled more evidence is coming. http://twitter.com/...