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Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook Will Try to Kill Alternative Media…

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In his recent interview with the far-left online publication Vox, Mark Zuckerberg explained Facebook’s new system of favoring “broadly trusted” news sources, via a mechanism designed to favor established outlets and crush new media. Facebook introduced its new system in January, and the results were immediately apparent. Facebook traffic to establishment outlets including CNN and […]

Concerned About What Facebook Knows About You? Check Out What Google Knows…

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Many users have been dropping Facebook, ceasing to use social media, or looking into the data that’s been collected about them. But if you think that what Facebook knows about you is scary, check out what Google knows about you. Dylan Curran, an information technology consultant, took a look at just what Google knew about […]

Mark Zuckerberg Forced to Explain Fellow Exec’s Memo That Implies Platform-Caused Deaths May Ultimately Be Worth It…

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg condemned insensitive comments made by a top executive at the company after BuzzFeed revealed them Thursday. Facebook Vice President Andrew published a memo titled “The Ugly” in June 2016, which included claims that implied the company cared more about the business than potential deaths. Bosworth alleged in the memo that bringing […]

Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s Plan for Voters’ Facebook Data…

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More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]

U.S. Government Confirms It’s Investigating Facebook, Sending Shares Plummeting…

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The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday morning that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices. The news came in a press release sent out Monday morning, and Facebook’s shares have already dropped more than 5% from opening. The FTC serves as the consumer watchdog over privacy issues, so it’s no surprise […]

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