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Dogecoin surges as Reddit madness engulfs cryptocurrencies

Telegraph 28 Jan 2021 06:01 PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says platform will halt political suggestions

Guardian Technology 27 Jan 2021 10:12 PM Facebook will halt algorithm-driven recommendations of political Facebook groups around the world and is looking into reducing political content in its News Feed, according to chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.“People don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on the platform,” Zuckerberg told investors. “We’re going to focus even more on being a force for bringing people closer together,” he added.Zuckerberg’s remarks came on the quarterly earnings call for the platfor

Donald Trump suspended from Facebook indefinitely, says Mark Zuckerberg

Guardian Technology 07 Jan 2021 06:59 PM Donald Trump has faced severe criticism over his support for Washington rioters. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump will be suspended from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely and at least until the end of his time in office, Mark Zuckerberg has said, as a consequence of his support for the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday. The US president was initially suspended from the social network for 24 hours, as a result of two posts shared to the platform in which he appeared to prai

How to delete your Instagram account. Bye, Mark Zuckerberg.

Mashable 20 Dec 2020 09:00 PM Here's what you need to know in order to delete your Instagram account forever.Image: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images So, you finally deleted your Facebook account. The misinformation, the scams, the data privacy issues, the odd company decisions (like the one giving politicians a pass to lie) — it all just became too much. Your Facebook profile is now gone, and you’ve moved on to other social media platforms like … deleting Instagram?! You probably know this, but j

15 Career Lessons From Successful Founders [Infographic]

MarketingProfs 03 Dec 2020 02:00 PM Make a bigger pie, move quickly, don't play a solo game, view knowledge as a semantic tree, and focus on learning. Those are some of the career lessons from successful company founders such as Dave Thomas of Wendy's, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Nicky Goulimis of Nova Credit. A recent infographic (below) from Resume.io explores those four ideas as well as 11 more from famous founders. The piece also delves into how each of the 15 lessons can be applied to your own career

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face Senate grilling over tech platforms – as it happened

Guardian Technology 17 Nov 2020 08:04 PM Updated Mark Zuckerberg at the hearing on Tuesday. Photograph: Reuters 8.01pm GMT20:01 Summary That’s all, folks! Today’s hearing was called to address the way an article from the New York Post was handled on Facebook and Twitter. That was discussed, but so were other issues including how these platforms handled and will continue to handle election misinformation and whether the law shielding them from legal liability for content posted, called section 230, should be modified or repealed. For a

The Social Dilemma: a wake-up call for a world drunk on dopamine?

Guardian Technology 19 Sep 2020 03:00 PM A still from docudrama The Social Dilemma. Photograph: Netflix Spool forward a couple of centuries. A small group of social historians drawn from the survivors of climate catastrophe are picking through the documentary records of what we are currently pleased to call our civilisation, and they come across a couple of old movies. When they’ve managed to find a device on which they can view them, it dawns on them that these two films might provide an insight into a great puzzle: how and why did t

Facebook to freeze political ads before US presidential election

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Walmart expresses interest in TikTok, teaming up with Microsoft

Tech Crunch 27 Aug 2020 04:48 PM TechCrunch is part of Verizon Media. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Your personal data that may be used Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps Precise location Find out more a

Future of Media: podcast marketing at Slate, cinema’s back, Facebook CMO out

The Drum 27 Aug 2020 02:30 PM By John McCarthy-27 August 2020 15:30pmThe Drum's senior reporter and media correspondent John McCarthy rounds up the latest media trends and developments. Also available in your inbox every Thursday as The Drum's Future of Media email briefing. Sign up here. This is an extract from The Drum’s Future of Media briefing. You can subscribe to it here if you’d like it your inbox once a week.John McCarthy here. This week we look at Slate’s podcasting efforts, how cinema can thrive post-pandemic and

What the departure of CMO Antonio Lucio means for Facebook

The Drum 24 Aug 2020 11:35 AM What the departure of CMO Antonio Lucio means for Facebook “I came in with eyes wide open. I knew that this was challenging,” said Antonio Lucio upon taking the role of Facebook chief marketing officer. After two years at a company rarely out of the headlines, that may have been an understatement. The marketing veteran has now announced he is leaving the social giant to spend the twilight of his career forwarding “diversity, inclusion and equity” in the ad industry.Lucio, previously of HP, Visa

Mark Zuckerberg questioned for two days in Facebook competition probe

Telegraph 21 Aug 2020 07:01 AM

Five key moments from the big tech grilling

BBC Technology 30 Jul 2020 04:31 PM By Chris Fox Technology reporter Image copyright Reuters The heads of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google owner Alphabet appeared before US lawmakers on Wednesday night to defend their companies against claims they abuse their power to squash competitors.Here are five key moments from the hearing.1. Mark Zuckerberg's emails revealedDid Facebook buy Instagram in 2012 to neutralise a threat? That was the topic raised by Democratic representative Jerry Nadler.Emails between Facebook chief executive

‘We’re letting Facebook grade their own homework’: Here’s how advertisers’ desired changes differ from overall boycott

Digiday 09 Jul 2020 04:02 AM July 9, 2020 by Kristina Monllos As the advertiser boycott of Facebook continues to gather steam, the pressure for the platform to respond in earnest to the desires of those boycotting continues to mount. While everyone wants hate speech to be purged from the platform, advertisers also want a lot more control of their relationship with the social giant. On Tuesday, civil rights advocates from groups behind the Stop Hate for Profit campaign like Color for Change and the Anti-Defamation League re

Facebook civil-rights record hammered in own review

BBC Technology 08 Jul 2020 11:36 AM Image copyright EPA AFP GETTY IMAGES REUTERS BBC Facebook's "vexing and heartbreaking" decisions are causing significant setbacks for civil rights, an audit commissioned by the company says.The two-year-long review says its actions have left many activists "disheartened, frustrated and angry".Facebook has already said it will make some - but not all - of the changes called for in the 100-page report.The official number of advertisers boycotting Facebook over its civil-rights policy is now at ne

The Guardian view on Facebook and democracy: real and present danger | Editorial

Guardian Technology 05 Jul 2020 05:25 PM In every political debate since Facebook began to dominate democracy, the company has placed itself on the wrong side of history. The social media firm cannot be reformed from within because its business model profits from hosting bomb-throwing circuses of hate, humbug and hogwash. The platform harvests users’ personal data to algorithmically recommend content but can’t seem to help steering people towards vilifying one another while keeping their attention. It is not good for society, but it is

Indignant Joe Biden pens strongly worded letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Mashable 11 Jun 2020 05:50 PM Joe Biden is fed up with all this social media nonsense, and doggone it, he's not going to take it anymore. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee published an open letter Thursday morning addressed directly to Mark Zuckerberg, letting the CEO know that he better shape up, mister, or there will be consequences. Specifically, the letter critiques Zuckerberg for failing to stem the tide of misinformation and lies spread on his platform by the Trump campaign. Biden, in full old-man-lectur

‘Venus flytrap hand’ has gentle touch and other tech news

BBC Technology 05 Jun 2020 06:05 AM BBC Click's Paul Carter looks at some of the best of the week's technology news stories including:Facebook staff stage a “virtual walkout” after civil rights leaders warn Mark Zuckerberg is setting a "dangerous precedent" by allowing a post by Donald Trump to remain on the platform. Mr Zuckerberg has previously defended his decision to leave the post up on Facebook, saying he disagreed with Mr Trump's words but that people "should be able to see this for themselves" A picture of a lake, cloudy s

Facebook's Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous precedent over Trump

BBC Technology 02 Jun 2020 07:32 PM By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News Image copyright Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg is setting a "dangerous precedent" by allowing a post by Donald Trump to remain on Facebook, a group of civil rights leaders has warned.Their statement followed a video call with the social media giant's founder.The US president's post, about the widespread protests following the death of George Floyd, was hidden by Twitter last week for "glorifying violence".Facebook staff also voiced their anger at thei

Zuckerberg says Facebook won't be 'arbiters of truth' after Trump threat

Guardian Technology 28 May 2020 03:28 PM Two years after admitting under political pressure that Facebook must do more to prevent disinformation campaigns on its platform, founder Mark Zuckerberg told Fox News on Thursday that the company should step away from regulating online speech.Zuckerberg’s remarks seemed designed to ingratiate his company to the White House, as Donald Trump escalated a war with rival social media platform Twitter over that company’s efforts to begin factchecking some of Trump’s posts.“I just believe strongly th

Facebook expects half of employees to work remotely over next five to 10 years

Guardian Technology 21 May 2020 09:55 PM The move follows a similar announcements earlier this month by Facebook’s social media rival Twitter and the payments company Square. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images Facebook will permanently embrace remote work, even after coronavirus lockdowns ease, Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday, accelerating the tech sector’s geographic diversification away from its home in Silicon Valley. The CEO said the world’s largest social network would start “aggressively opening up remote hirin

Will Facebook's new oversight board be a radical shift or a reputational shield?

Guardian Technology 07 May 2020 10:00 AM Facebook’s long awaited oversight board was announced on Wednesday. Photograph: Johanna Geron/Reuters A new era of social media governance began Wednesday, when the first 20 members of Facebook’s long-awaited oversight board were announced. The international panel of free expression advocates, journalists, a former prime minister, a Nobel laureate, and law professors will have final say over certain content moderation decisions for the world’s largest social media platform, independent of Faceb

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