Does The Cambridge Analytica Scandal Mean Facebook Is Doomed?
Analysis of social data suggests that the user revolt against Facebook appears to be merely a flash in the trillion-dollar pan. A new report from LikeFolio about Facebook utilizes social data to show the initial reaction that Facebook users are having to revelations related to the Cambridge Analytica “data … Read …
Facebook Says It’s Sorry for Quietly Keeping All of Your Never-Posted Videos, and That It Will …
Last week, Select All reported that Facebook had quietly been storing videos users never posted and believe they had deleted. The issue involved videos that users filmed back in the days when Facebook let users film videos directly on the platform to post on their friends' walls. Turns out, when …
Mark Zuckerberg calls Tim Cook’s comments on Facebook ‘extremely glib’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back Apple CEO Tim Cook, calling Cook's comments about Facebook “extremely glib.” Cook told Recode last week that he would never be in the situation that Zuckerberg has found himself in, facing backlash for the massive Cambridge Analytica data breach. Read More
Zuckerberg slams Apple in response to CEO Tim Cook’s Facebook criticism
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remained silent for far too long following the revelation that a shady political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica was able to steal personal data belonging to an estimated 50 million people using Facebook's own tools. Now that Zuckerberg has broken his silence, … Read More
‘That Sounds Ridiculous to Me.’ Mark Zuckerberg Responds After Tim Cook Takes a Jab at Facebook
In the interview, Cook criticized Facebook's handling of users' personal data, contrasting it with Apple's approach. “We care about the user experience and we're not going to traffic in your personal life,” Cook said. “I think it's an invasion of privacy. I think it's… privacy to us is a human …
Facebook may soon let users appeal if a post was wrongly removed
In an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, Mark Zuckerberg says he is exploring the option for Facebook users to independently appeal to the content moderation team if their content gets taken down for violating community policies. The CEO likens the appeal process to Facebook operating more like a … Read More
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
It's been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake news, electoral interference, privacy violations, and a broad backlash to smartphone addiction. Wall Street has noticed: the company has lost almost $100 billion in market value in … Read More
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s role in ethnic cleansing in Myanmar: “It’s a real issue”
Facebook's fake news problems extends far beyond Russian trolls interfering in US elections. Overseas, false stories have turned into tools of political warfare — most notably in Myanmar, where government forces have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, the country's … Read More
The new rules for the internet – and why you shouldn’t delete Facebook
Therefore, the answer is not to lock down the open internet or even to delete Facebook (however satisfying that might feel, with 2.2-billion users it is embedded in our society). Instead, we urgently need new democratic rules for the internet that enhance the rights of citizens, protect the integrity of …
Social media ad spend to overtake TV’s in spite of Facebook woes
The report predicts that Mark Zuckerberg will shake off any potential commercial impact from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, hoovering up more than four-fifths (84%, £2.76bn) of the predicted £3.3bn that will be spent on social media networks in the UK this year. Facebook is also expected to weather … Read More