Tests find Facebook's Download Your Information tool gives users an incomplete and inconsistent list of advertisers who have uploaded their data to Facebook
In 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook announced the “Download Your Information” feature allowing users … Tweets: @micronauta , @privacyint , @wolfiechristl , and @privacyint Twe...
100K+ leaked Cambridge Analytica docs show the Facebook data scandal was part of a broad operation in 68 countries involving govts, intelligence agencies, more
Company's work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents — An explosive leak of tens of thousands … Tweets: @profcarroll , @guyverhofstadt , @stevesilberman , @peterjukes...
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online ads is misleading because the benchmarks marketers use don't distinguish people buying from ads and those buying anyway
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Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more for people who would have bought anyway
Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Tweets: @frolleinjune , @wolfiechristl , @radio...
Apple's sign-in button, built for a post-Cambridge Analytica world, is a sign of how much tech infrastructure needs to be rebuilt as privacy expectations change
Protection against developers, not hackers — In 2019, Facebook isn't just a homepage; it's a passport. Tweets: @natisho and @peterpur Tweets: @natisho : “This might seem strange: Apple is tightening...
Researchers say Facebook has weakened or disabled tools they use to track political ads and content on the platform, just as 2020 campaigns ramp up ad spending
The Iowa caucuses are still eight months away, but the Facebook primary has already begun. — President Donald Trump has poured … Tweets: @eshap , @bgpublic , @daviduberti , @eff , @daviduberti , @vi...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg's influence is staggering and that it is time to break up Facebook
The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg — was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. We met at Facebook's Menlo Park …
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life
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Facebook board member Marc Andreessen denies Guardian's report about Cambridge Analytica meeting in 2016, says he never met Wylie in his life
- Andreessen Horowitz investor and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen has denied claims he met the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie in 2016.