Facebook’s PR team reportedly pressured the New York Times to delete a reference to Sheryl Sandberg from one of the paper’s recent articles on the departure of Facebook Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos.
Shares of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have declined over the past two days thanks in part to the intensifying scandal over user data at Facebook. Alphabet’s shares have been under-pressure because investors fear that regulators might clamp down on how tech companies deploy user data in a way that could crimp earnings across the sector.
As Facebook faces a crisis related to a user data scandal and the 2016 election, it seems appropriate to reflect on Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg telling Clinton campaign manager John Podesta that she wanted Hillary to “win badly.”
Wells Fargo initially cast blame on low-level employees and downplayed the seriousness of its problems. That was an enormous miscalculation.
Actor-comedian Jim Carrey took to Twitter to share artwork targeting Facebook over reports that the social media network allowed third-party analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to access millions of its users’ data during the 2016 election.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “saved tens of millions of dollars” by selling his Facebook stock before the company’s decline this week.
Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook platform operations manager, claimed the company’s “horrifying” misuse of user data was routine, and that Facebook preferred to have “no idea” what third parties were doing with the freely available data.
UK MP’s have called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the social media companies most recent user data scandal.
Breitbart News Senior Technology Correspondent Allum Bokhari joined Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Tuesday, to discuss the Cambridge Analytica controversy.
Facebook has reportedly scheduled an open meeting with all employees on Tuesday to allow them to ask questions about the most recent user data scandal.
As Facebook deals with the fallout of their latest user data scandal, the company’s data security chief, Alex Stamos, is expected to resign from his position.
Bloomberg claims that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Facebook’s actions in allegedly granting Cambridge Analytica access to its users’ data during the 2016 election.
The New York Times piece features ex-Obama data wonks joking about trawling through the Facebook feeds of their supporters’ “old college friends and ex-girlfriends.”
Facebook stock is down by seven percent today as the company faces another scandal relating to the use of user data.
In 2013, Waters revealed that Barack Obama possessed a “kind of database that no-one has ever seen before,” with “information about everything, on every individual.”
The Guardian published an op-ed recently titled “No One Can Pretend Facebook is Just Harmless Fun Any More” which took aim at the social media company for their most recent user data exposure.
In explosive comments, a former senior staffer on Obama’s 2012 campaign claims that Facebook representatives admitted to being “on their side.”
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her controversial comment trying to explain why the majority of white women voted for her opponent Donald Trump.
Facebook has repudiated allegations made in The Observer and The New York Times that Cambridge Analytica’s use of user data constituted a “data breach.”
Facebook has banned a data mining company that played a key role in multiple right-wing political campaigns, including Brexit and the Trump campaign.
Thursday’s episode of Will & Grace saw a local baker refuse to bake a ‘Make America Great Again’ cake, crack jokes about Vice President Mike Pence’s sexuality, and cast conservatives as Hitler-loving Nazis.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for flying to a liberal arts festival in Texas in the midst of a violent crime wave in his city, to argue that national government should focus on pressuring social media firms to increase censorship.
Facebook has apologized for recent search suggestions that featured terms related to pornography, some of which included terms like “little girl.”
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) smacked down her former Silicon Valley allies this week by blocking a federal deregulation that would have expedited the testing of self-driving cars.
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s claims that Facebook influencing an election was “ridiculous,” the company had a page of election “success stories” on their business website until it recently removed.
Representatives from the major American technology companies will be meeting with first lady Melania Trump next week as part of her platform to protect children from cyberbullying and other social media exposure.
Analysis of Facebook traffic conducted by Western Journal is further confirmation that the platform’s recent newsfeed change was politically one-sided.
A group of Members of Parliament and other parliamentary staff cost taxpayers £84,000 for a trip to the United States to investigate the phenomenon of fake news, spending a remarkable 11,506,749 per-cent more on the jolly than the total spent by the alleged Kremlin “troll farm” on Facebook adverts during the Brexit referendum campaign.
The Democratic Party is following Britain’s Labour party down the antisemitic rabbit hole with its refusal to oppose Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn told Breitbart News Daily that “Silicon Valley elites are trying to impose their values” on Americans and other digital users.
A 65-year-old woman in the city of Jönköping is set to be prosecuted on hate crime charges for claiming that mass Muslim immigration will lower the general IQ of the Swedish population.
Facebook has banned a number of pages associated with the street marching and activism group Britain First, a week after the leaders of the organisation were convicted of religiously aggravated harassment in an English court.
Facebook has banned pages run by the right-wing Britain First group across their platform.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway followed up on his Esquire magazine piece calling on the break-up of the four major tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Galloway explained to host Tucker
Herbert London, president of the London Center for Policy Research and former president of the Hudson Institute, warned of threats posed to the U.S. by China’s ascendance in the realm of technological innovation.
At a meeting with Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), female tech leaders described a culture of sexism in Silicon Valley.
Swedish Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has promised to put more pressure on social media giants Facebook and YouTube owner Google to remove illegal “hate speech” material.
In 2016, we discovered that Big Tech was vulnerable — wide open, in fact — to political manipulators and hackers, both domestic and foreign. In 2017, we learned that Big Tech didn’t want to do much about the problem, even though the Techsters did wish to pursue their various lefty political agendas. And in 2018, we learned that Big Tech was finally willing to do something about its vulnerabilities — but only on its terms.
