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Zuckerberg used personal data about friends, relationships and photos as leverage over company partners
While publicly declaring its commitment to user privacy, the company was looking for ways to use the data it collects to its maximum advantage.
“Digital gangsters” Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of internal documents
“Facebook is trying to leverage the court to frighten and try to identify journalism sources”
Facebook’s shareholders are attempting to fire Mark Zuckerberg
The last year has seen the social network involved in a series of scandals.
Facebook suggests admins of a pro-Trump Facebook group should fact-check every post their members make, or face consequences
Is Facebook really suggesting that they need to fact-check everything that’s uploaded to the group?
Facebook’s new “Click-Gap” algorithm will censor alternative media and help mainstream media sites
The “Click-Gap” algorithm is live now and reduces the reach of content from domains that have a small number of inbound and outbound links.
Instagram moves to shadowban “borderline” content
The Instagram move is seen as one in a series Facebook has recently made in a bid to get back in the good graces of regulators.
Facebook’s new patent is a privacy-invading nightmare
The company has been granted a patent for a method to automatically scan photos uploaded by users to recognize any products that might appear in them.
Facebook will be changing its terms of service following discussions with the European Commission
The changes will clarify how consumer data is used and remove confusing legalistic jargon.
The activist group that campaigned for the banning of Faith Goldy from Facebook now want Yellow Vest group banned
The Yellow Vest group are a group that originated in France, motivated by rising fuel prices, the high cost of living, and claims that a disproportionate burden of the government’s tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes.
The big tech free speech hearing will be on April 10th, 2019; titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse”
It is hard to deny that Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube look more and more like public platforms rather than “publishers” who can censor content however they want.
Facebook used email passwords to harvest contact data from its users
Facebook was criticized for asking for passwords to user email accounts but this “feature” was actually being used to scoop up contact data from user’s email accounts.
Conservatives call on tech giants to cut ties with the biased and disgraced SPLC
Bozell argues the group is extremely biased, abusing the powerful status and role given to it by these companies to silence political and ideological opponents, rather than promote fair and responsible speech.