In an extraordinary backflip, Facebook announced Tuesday it will reverse its block on Australian users sharing news on its site and accept proposed government media bargaining laws that force it to pay for content.
The Special Committee on Election Integrity of the Georgia House of Representatives held hearings Thursday and Friday on HB 531, which includes a provision designed to ban private funding of election administration of the sort practiced by the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) in that state in 2020.
Actor Kevin Sorbo was banned from Facebook for posting content that the platform’s “fact checkers” have deemed to be “debunked” information regarding coronavirus vaccines. Sorbo reacted to the ban by saying: “All I can say is that I find it amazing that a place like Facebook has more power than our government, apparently. And the government allows them to do what they’re doing right now, in terms of just canceling people that they don’t agree with.”
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said “every state in the union,” should eliminate the private donor funding of election administration in an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday with host Matt Boyle.
Australian officials are reportedly in talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the social media platform made the decision to ban all news content in Australia in response to new legislation that would force tech giants to pay news publishers.
Tech giant Facebook recently stated it plans to start adding information labels to posts about global warming that direct people to a “climate change information hub.” George Mason University, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and the University of Cambridge will all contribute to Facebook’s program of fact checking.
The Fulton County Board of Commissioners left the future of Elections Director Richard Barron in doubt Wednesday evening when it failed to either confirm or reject a vote earlier this week by the Fulton County Board of Elections to fire the controversial Barron.
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly censored the pages of several Australian government agencies, non-profits, businesses, and briefly Facebook’s own official page in the country as the site implemented a ban on all news content in Australia.
Facebook allegedly allowed the communist government of China to purchase paid ads casting doubt on reports of abuses committed against the country’s Uyghur minority, according to a report from the British media trade publication Press Gazette.
British parliamentarians has challenged Facebook tsar Mark Zuckerberg over the tech giant’s abortive efforts to censor a history group for discussing the Black Country dish faggots and peas.
The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) launched an effort Wednesday to fuel election integrity measures in state legislatures across the country.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at one time expressed concern about the “long-term side effects” of “basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA” in a video leaked to Project Veritas.
The Fulton County (Georgia) Election Board voted to fire controversial elections director Richard Barron in a three to two vote Tuesday evening.
Social media giant Facebook is reportedly developing its own smartwatch as part of its ongoing efforts to move into hardware production and suck up even more personal information — in this case, biometric data.
The demand by Australia’s conservative coalition government that Google and Facebook pay for news content is drawing results, with the tech giants revealing Monday they are close to deals with major news providers.
A recent report alleges that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that Facebook needs to “inflict pain” on Apple in the ongoing privacy dispute between the two Silicon Valley giants.
State Rep. Joseph Gullett introduced a bill to the Georgia House of Representatives that would ban private funding for the administration of federal, state, and local elections.
In a recent article, CNN refers to tech giant Facebook as a “$770 billion clone factory,” that copies the features and ideas of other companies. CNN describes Facebook as exercising its stranglehold on social media in multiple ways, writing: “In addition to copycatting, when Facebook couldn’t beat ’em, it bought ’em.”
Facebook recently stated that it plans to temporarily reduce the visibility of political content for some users in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia as the company faces increased scrutiny over its ability to moderate misinformation and “hateful content.”
The Center for Election Innovation and Research, a nonprofit organization that received a $50 million donation from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in September, released a survey on attitudes of Georgia voters on election integrity Wednesday.
Social media giant Facebook is being sued for “losing control” of the data of around one million users in England and Wales.
Facebook recently stated that it plans to remove posts with claims about vaccines it judges to be false or misleading across its platform including claims that vaccines cause autism or that it is safer to contract the coronavirus than to receive a vaccine.
In a recent discussion on the popular Clubhouse app, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg focused on his company’s progress in the world of Virtual Reality, stating “we should be teleporting, not transporting,” and that VR could allow workers to meet virtually rather than travel to offices.
Over two dozen philanthropic organizations, including those of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, have launched a $100 million five-year initiative called the California Black Freedom Fund. The group will provide funding to organizations like the anti-police Akonadi Foundation.
Snap Inc., the parent company of the Snapchat social media platform, warned on Thursday that upcoming privacy changes by Apple could hurt its ad business despite user growth and revenue beating analysts’ fourth-quarter estimates.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of “abusive and dictatorial” behavior after Facebook censored Maduro’s promotion of an unproven coronavirus treatment known as Carvativir, an antiviral drug which Maduro refers to as “miracle drops.”
The Harvard Business Review has called Facebook’s campaign against fellow tech giant Apple “misleading” in a recent article. Facebook has ratcheted up its war of words with Apple over new iPhone privacy settings that will impact Facebook’s advertising model. Mark Zuckerberg and his company claim to be the champions of small business against Apple.
After four years of mocking President Donald Trump, “Saturday Night Live” apparently could not find anything funny to say about Joe Biden, and ignored the president when the NBC sketch comedy show returned this weekend.
In recent Facebook insider footage leaked by Project Veritas, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg justifies the blacklisting of former President Donald Trump, claiming that he wanted to “undermine” the transition of power.
The investigative journalism group Project Veritas recently published a series of videos from an insider at tech giant Facebook which features top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, discussing the company’s plans and agendas.
Leaked video obtained by Project Veritas shows the founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that left-wing rioters who burned down multiple quarters of American cities last summer were somehow treated less leniently than the Capitol Hill rioters of January 6.
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s call to Australian lawmakers for leniency over plans to regulate tech giants and force them to pay for news sourced from local media outlets has been roundly rejected by Canberra.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently criticized polarization on social media, further intensifying the conflict between Apple and Facebook. According to Cook, “At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of technology that says all engagement is good engagement — the longer the better — and all with the goal of collecting as much data as possible.”
MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday delivered a monologue aimed at Facebook for radicalizing Americans.
The Hungarian government has confirmed that it will legislate against Big Tech censorship online, declaring that “we must fight for our digital freedom!”
The Facebook oversight board, popularly known as the “Facebook Supreme Court,” the body established by the company to check its content moderation decisions, has ruled on its first cases.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that the social media giant would be reducing the amount of political content on its platforms and in its news feeds to channel users towards more “healthy communities.” Zuckerberg also said that he wants “clear guidance and clear rules for the Internet,” and is in favor of updating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).
Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland hopes to tap a former Facebook lawyer as the leader of the DOJ’s antitrust division, according to a report released Thursday.
Poland is legislating to protect freedom of speech on online platforms, government minister Sebastian Kaleta told Breitbart News.
Facebook has reportedly blacklisted more than 78,000 users of its main platform and Instagram for violating the company’s policies against posting content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory and “militarized” social movements.