That's what many who planted their money with ethical investments holding the tech company Facebook might have thought as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress this week on privacy and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Socially responsible investments have taken off in popularity in … Read More

The interesting question, however, is whether Facebook itself plans to make use of this, and here Mr Zuckerberg was less than entirely candid or open. He said the company “limits the amount of data” it collects and uses. Of course it does. There is no earthly use for much of …

He repeatedly brought up how Facebook's detection systems automatically take down 99 percent of “terrorist content” before any kind of flagging. In 2017, Facebook announced that it was “experimenting” with AI to detect language that “might be advocating for terrorism” — presumably a deep learning … Read More

Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted in March, Facebook has been attempting to make a moral stand for your privacy, distancing itself from the unscrupulous practices of the U.K. political consultancy. “Protecting people's information is at the heart of everything we do,” wrote Paul Grewal, … Read More

Facebook's downfall has, it seems, been greatly exaggerated — at least according to Facebook . Even with the Cambridge Analytica fallout and subsequent #DeleteFacebook campaigns, the site appears to be largely unfazed. An executive confirmed as much in a recent interview with The Wall Street … Read More

There's no future for social media networks. When millennials are in their 40s, they'll look back on the days of social media networks with the same sense of nostalgia Generation X remembers AOL. Facebook and most of the others will be gone before you know it, and there won't be …

The hearings, hopelessly distant in technological time, are worth revisiting today. Utah senator Orrin Hatch chaired the committee at the time of the Microsoft testimony; two decades later, Hatch interrogated Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's business model, eliciting the CEO's smirksome answer, “Senator, … Read More

Facebook users have continuously worried that the social media platform's mobile apps, including Instagram, listen in on our conversations. It's such a widespread concern that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to address it in a congressional hearing on privacy this week, where he called the notion … Read More

Since the Cambridge Analytica fallout, there have been demands for change, hearings and even a #DeleteFacebook campaign. But it turns out all of that hasn't really translated into any meaningful shift in Facebook users' behavior. The Wall Street Journal reports that over the past few weeks, Facebook … Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a lot of this week talking to lawmakers, testifying in front of representatives from both houses of Congress during a two-day marathon in Washington, D.C. But are those same lawmakers now going to take action against Facebook? On the latest episode of Too … Read More