Tensions between the masters of the universe at Facebook and United States lawmakers continue to mount, as the company confirms that it actually did share user data with Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei.
“I agree that we’re responsible for the content, but we don’t produce the content”, Zuckerberg told lawmakers in April.
The Facebook CEO faces mounting questions over whether his statements to Congress in April were accurate.
Sen. Tom Cotton has warned that Huawei is “essentially an arm of the Chinese government.”
David Vladeck, the former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claimed the FTC will be more likely to “impose a significant civil penalty on Facebook,” every time new scandals come out.
The New York Times reported this week that fake ads on Facebook may be having an impact on a congressional primary race in California.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I) said Zuckerberg must be “held accountable.”
Facebook continues to lack transparency about the way it delivers news to its users.
Papua New Guinea is set to ban Facebook for a month in an effort to study the social network’s effects on citizens and investigate fake accounts.
CNBC published an article recently criticising Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most recent hearing before the EU Parliament.
“It really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information” said Clinton.
A collection of leaked documents appears to show Facebook redefining rules around hate speech and re-educating content moderators following the Charlottesville protest in 2017.
During a hearing before members of the EU Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian MEP, questioned how Mark Zuckerberg wants to be remembered.
Farage posited the creation of a “Social Media Bill of Rights” to protect free speech on the web.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is appearing before the European Parliament today to discuss the issue of user privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg will face questions on Tuesday from European politicians on a variety of the social media giant’s issues around privacy and user data.
A meeting previously planned to be closed-door between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and members of the EU Parliament will now be livestreamed, according to EU officials.
The Atlantic Council, whose members include Henry Kissinger, has called Hungary’s Viktor Orbán a “far-right autocrat.”
UK lawmakers have claimed that social media firm Facebook has not fully answered questions relating to user data privacy.
Facebook also admitted that its automated technology for detecting hate speech “doesn’t work that well.”
Following the Cambridge Analytica user data scandal, Facebook vowed to investigate all apps that accessed user data — they have now suspended 200 apps that may have misused users’ personal information.
A month after Mark Zuckerberg’s April 10 and 11 testimony on Capitol Hill, the chattering class seems to agree that he and Facebook dodged the political equivalent of the grim reaper. And yet the sharp scythe of history is still swinging, and Zuckerberg could still get sliced.
Establishment elites don’t want a level playing field on social media.
Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following the revelation that the company logged users’ text and call logs using the Facebook smartphone app.
According to a new study of Facebook’s recent algorithm changes, which were designed to focus users’ News Feeds on posts from friends and family, the algorithm changes have actually made users more unhappy.
Members of Congress have reportedly been angered by changes to Facebook’s algorithm which have seen their pages receive less reach on the platform.
Facebook is reportedly overhauling its entire management structure following its recent user data scandal.
Following the announcement of Facebook’s new dating feature, privacy experts have expressed skepticism surrounding the company’s new direction.
A new malware attack is targeting Facebook users’ passwords and money via the Facebook Messenger app.
Another former adviser to top Democrats joins Facebook’s lobbying machine.
Alex Hardiman, Facebook’s head of news products, revealed further details about the social network’s plans to “rank” news outlets by “trustworthiness,” during the Facebook Developer Conference this week.
The Heritage Foundation will defend Facebook’s legal right as a “private company” to censor content and will oppose attempts to regulate the tech giant, according to the think tank’s senior research fellow for technology, Klon Kitchen.
Social media firm Facebook unveiled their latest attempt to copy an existing app’s idea with the introduction of a new dating feature that bears a striking resemblance to popular dating app Tinder.
Breitbart News Senior Tech Correspondent Allum Bokhari joined SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Monday, to discuss Facebook’s suspension of a page for an anti-illegal immigrant caravan protest.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed his platform has started to rank news organizations based on “trustworthiness,” with low-ranking sources becoming suppressed.
Even Mark Zuckerberg’s posts were flagged with the questionnaire, which asked users to determine what posts were “hate speech.”
Taking a page from Reddit’s book, Facebook reportedly has plans to introduce a new voting system on comments across the platform including both upvotes and downvotes.
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company following multiple clashes with parent company Facebook.
Facebook decided to ditch its “fake news” warnings on articles after the warnings prompted even more users to share the flagged stories, however, the platform has created new features to crack down on what it deems to be “fake news.”
Facebook has reportedly begun warning investors that “intense media coverage” of the company’s latest user data scandal could lead to lower user numbers and overall revenue.