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EFF, Human Rights Watch, and Over 70 Civil Society Groups Ask Mark Zuckerberg to Provide All Users with Mechanism to Appeal Content Censorship on Facebook…

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and more than 70 human and digital rights groups called on Mark Zuckerberg today to add real transparency and accountability to Facebook’s content removal process. Specifically, the groups demand that Facebook clearly explain how much content it removes, both rightly and wrongly, and provide all users with a fair and […]

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis…

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Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to disrupt the 2016 American election. Congressional […]

Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Inflated Video View Statistics to Fool Advertisers…

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A lawsuit reported on by the Wall Street Journal alleges that Facebook was aware of issues on how the site measured views of video ads for more than a year before it disclosed the issue in 2016. A group of advertisers brought a lawsuit against the social media firm in 2016 for failing to disclose […]

Tech Gurus Don’t Let Their Kids Have Smartphones. Here’s Why…

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Students are back in classrooms and parents can finally have a brief respite from worrying about their children’s excessive screen use — or, at least, worrying it is all their fault. This angst peaks each year in the summer holidays, those long, sunny weeks illuminated in large part by the blueish light from children’s smartphones, […]

Is It Social Media or Corporate Surveillance? Facebook’s Business Model…

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It’s time to ask this question: is Facebook wearing the friendly façade of a social media company while actually operating as a high tech citizen surveillance center? We’ll get to that in a moment, but first a look at what an actual citizen surveillance center looks like in New York City. In 2012 we broke […]

Pew Study: 44 Percent of Young Adults Deleted Facebook App in Past Year…

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Almost half of the young adults in the U.S. who use Facebook deleted the app on their phones over the past year, according to a new study examining Americans’ changing relationship with Facebook. The Pew Research Center study, published on Wednesday, found that 44 percent of adults between ages 18 and 29, which is composed […]

Analyst Downgrades Facebook Over ‘Toxic Brew’ of Slow Sales and Regulation Risk…

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CNBC reports that analysis firm MoffettNathanson has downgraded Facebook’s stock in a surprise move after the firm predicted that the social media company will generate earnings below expectations this year. Analyst Michael Nathanson said in a note to clients this week: “We believe that revenue growth deceleration coupled with the company’s long-term margin guidance does […]

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