Facebook pours millions of dollars into state and federal lobbying efforts, some of which oppose legislation designed to bolster privacy. The company has contributed to the campaigns of representatives who want to gut the Illinois privacy law referenced by Durbin, and it ponied up $200,000 to oppose a … Read More
You'll soon be able to draw on the world around you and shoot back-and-forth Instagram Boomerang GIFs with the Facebook Camera. Bringing additional creative tools to the Facebook Camera could make it a more popular place to shoot content and help the company compete with Snapchat. Read More
I joined Facebook in the spring of 2005 with the first email address I ever had. I still remember the photo I chose: me in a silver cocktail dress I spent too much of my summer lifeguarding money on. Facebook was a constant throughout college: There was the thrill of …
Facebook shares have dropped more than 11 percent over the past month on news that a political research firm was able to access the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their consent. He also says he likes GE because of the approach he is taking to solving GE's …
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has put data privacy on Facebook under the spotlight. The concern isn't just about who can see what you're sharing on Facebook. It's what Facebook lets third parties and advertisers see about you. In hearings on Capitol Hill, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark … Read More
Facebook has new election security measures that Zuckerberg mentioned in his testimony, but so far is not providing any quick and direct opt-out of hyper-targeted political advertising by linking directly to an opt-out setting right next to political ads. Instead, Facebook plans to add disclosures “similar to … Read More
If I had given Mark Zuckerberg much thought before now, I would probably have put him in a similar category, as someone I considered with vague distaste but no real animosity. Then several things happened in rapid succession to recategorise Facebook in my mind from a simple bad habit – …
Mark Zuckerberg's former personal pollster, Tavis McGinn, thinks Facebook is having a negative impact on society. Based on his most recent survey, it seems much of the world agrees. McGinn, who used to track the public's perception of CEO Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg while working for … Read More
I'll pay you the full $269.08, which is the amount of revenue per user that Facebook made from 2010 through 2017 in the U.S. and Canada. That will cover the pictures from my high school graduation and my first semester in college as well as the memories of my first …
Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised lawmakers that his platform would crack down on fake accounts and foreign influence. But at least two Facebook pages linked to websites operating out of Bulgaria are still targeting U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War, according to a letter … Read More