Zuckerberg’s testimony raises new questions about Facebook’s lobbying practices- In February, Facebook gave $200,000 to The Committee to Protect California Jobs, a business-backed political action group dedicated to defeating a state ballot initiative that would expand Californians’ privacy controls. Then on Wednesday, after Mark Zuckerberg’s two-day grilling by 44 members of Congress — in which … Read more
Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data- Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help … Read more
How Facebook Can Better Fight Fake News: Make Money Off the People Who Promote It – Facebook and other platforms are still struggling to combat the spread of misleading or deceptive “news” items promoted on social networks. Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s slow corporate response have drawn attention away from this ongoing, equally … Read more
How Facebook Can Better Fight Fake News: Make Money Off the People Who Promote It – Facebook and other platforms are still struggling to combat the spread of misleading or deceptive “news” items promoted on social networks. Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s slow corporate response have drawn attention away from this ongoing, equally … Read more
Should news organizations be the next to delete Facebook? – As Mark Zuckerberg continues his apology tour, speaking to select journalists about his company’s failure to protect the data of 50 million users, there’s one news organization that claims the Facebook CEO has refused to even acknowledge their request to be interviewed. That would be … Read more