How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta and X pivot from futile cooperation with the EU and other jurisdictions to confrontation and coercion
Big Tech's embrace of Trump is a sign of its weakness when confronted w determined state action - Brazil/EU. — timely reminder that the state is capable of disciplining capital, and has constantly t...
Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies on selling the Quest in China, but Mark Zuckerberg's China comments may cause issues
Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta's Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg's past criticisms of China Twitter: @jchengwsj and @newley Twitter: J...
The FBI responds to Mark Zuckerberg's claims about Hunter Biden's laptop on Joe Rogan's show, saying it routinely notifies US companies of potential threats
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Mark Zuckerberg on Clubhouse says Facebook may be in a “stronger position” after Apple's IDFA changes and that Facebook Shops has 1M+ monthly active businesses
“Stop inventing shittier trains” — really encounters a perfect, crystalline example. https://twitter.com/... Laura Bassett / @lebassett : I don't really want to hear anything about the journalism busi...
Facebook's Oversight Board is taking public comments on Facebook's decision to ban Trump and if it complied with “freedom of expression and human rights”
especially as outside pressure mounted for it to do so. It evolved into a common law-like system of governance over speech, and people started to notice, and (obviously) people got angry. 4/ Howard De...
Sources: Zuckerberg told staff Facebook won't change policies because of “threat to a small percent of our revenue”, expects advertisers to return “soon enough”
Home entertainment today … Dominic Rushe / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end ‘soon enough’ Bloomberg : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Under Siege After Facebook Scr...
Facebook updated fact checking guidelines in August to include ads, but some fact checkers say they learned about the change only from Zuckerberg's testimony
Many third-party contractors learned of new policy from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress Tweets: @alexhern Tweets: @alexhern : “Several of us really don't want that power,” one fact checker sai...
Livestream of Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on the Libra cryptocurrency
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 (10:00 AM) —Hearing: “ An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors” Connect with the House Financial …
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...