Meta elects new board directors: UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White, former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst, and Exor CEO John Elkann
Is a Choke Button Coming Soon? Robert McGreevy / The Daily Caller : Major Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta's Board As Zuck Sheds Left-Wing Bias Clyde Hughes / UPI : Meta names Dana White, two others t...
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources
a big departure from how it currently works. That and more changes here: https://www.theverge.com/... Sameer Singh / @sameer_singh17 : Leaving even more room for new startups to re-build the social gr...
The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections
And What Isn't Nathaniel Mott / PCMag : Things Aren't Going Well for Trump's Social Network Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian : A ‘non-cancellable’ community: the ‘truth’ about Trump's social media platform...
Hundreds of executives and companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, sign a statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” around voting
100s of companies and exec sign this letter opposing “any discriminatory legislation.” Ad appeared in the NYT and @washingtonpost today. w / @andrewrsorkin https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter....
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Zuckerbe...
Facebook and Google have extended their planned one-week bans on political ads, as Trump and GOP continue their claims of voter fraud
which they're now letting run wild during a critical moment for our democracy. https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : One internal Facebook saying is, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem.” The c...
Facebook refuses Biden campaign's request to take down a misleading Trump campaign ad, rejected by CNN, reigniting a debate about Facebook and political speech
including ones that air the same lies that TV stations won't. Here's an example of an ad that Facebook let Trump run despite being obviously untrue: https://popular.info/... pic.twitter.com/2X2S95Ep0...
Twitter reports Q4 revenue of $909M, up 24% YoY, ad revenue of $791M, up 23% YoY, net income of $244M, and MAUs of 321M, down by 9M YoY; stock closes down 9%+
and it's a lot smaller than Snapchat's Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Twitter crashes 10% after it says expenses will rise sharply Twitter : Q4 and Fiscal Year 2018 Letter to Shareholders Andrew Hutchinson / ...
Dan Pfeiffer, former communications director and senior adviser to President Obama, joins GoFundMe as VP of communications and policy
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal :
Dan Pfeiffer, former communications director and senior adviser to President Obama, joins GoFundMe as VP of communications and policy
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