Facebook plunge: Some say the stock will be just fine: Facebook’s post-earnings bloodbath amounted to the biggest one-day loss of market value by a single company in U.S. stock market history. But some on Wall Street say shares of the social media network will easily recover. People are reading this: How Can You Double Your Likes … Read more
Facebook and Twitter forged ahead Thursday with new efforts to disclose more information about the political advertisements that appear on their sites, part of a broad campaign to help users better understand why they see the content they do and who’s behind it. For both tech companies, the stakes are high ahead of the 2018 … Read more
Are Facebook‘s and YouTube’s efforts to remove terrorist propaganda really working? According to new research, both platforms are failing to stop ISIS-related content from circulating over the platforms, even as Facebook and YouTube claim to be cracking down on the problem. On Thursday, tr protection group, Digital Citizens Alliance, released a report documenting dozens of he … Read more
Are Facebook‘s and YouTube’s efforts to remove terrorist propaganda really working? According to new research, both platforms are failing to stop ISIS-related content from circulating over the platforms, even as Facebook and YouTube claim to be cracking down on the problem. On Thursday, tr protection group, Digital Citizens Alliance, released a report documenting dozens of he … Read more
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