An ISP took down the website for the group calling itself The Real Facebook Oversight Board after Facebook complained that the site was involved in phishing
“Nothing says ‘free speech’ quite as much as a multi-billion dollar corporation with a global monopoly getting its critics shut down." Tweets: @carolecadwalla , @carolecadwalla , @charlesarthur , @car...
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
The Correspondent : Tweets: @alicesalisburyj , @flexlibris , @thepunkrockshop , @theofanning , @gerrymcgovern , @ingridlunden , @woganmay , @radiomorgenland , @saminprint , @frolleinjune , and @wolfi...
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...
Q&A with Alex Stamos about Mark Zuckerberg's recent comments on free speech and where he went wrong, Facebook's News tab, fact-checking political ads, and more
Facebook relationship to speech is complicated: It takes down some forms of hate speech, provided it meets certain criteria … Tweets: @mathewi , @sriramk , @maxorgel , @benthompson , @mathewi , @mathe...
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...
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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