Facebook Battles Employees Who Complain About Censorship Policy
Social media policies have come under fire during the last couple of months as users demand repercussions for specific content. Recently Twitter determined that they would add a warning to President Trump’s tweets More...
New leaked documents confirm Facebook shared user data with ‘friends’ of Mark Zuckerberg and on a ‘pay for play’ deal
photo/Gerd Altmann Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to More...
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to sell out Internet to government control
In his recent Washington Post editorial Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for regulation for “harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.” Zuckerberg’s proposal appears More...
Facebook staff outraged over VP Joel Kaplan’s friendship to Brett Kavanaugh
When Facebook’s Vice President for global public policy Joel Kaplan was spotted sitting behind Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Facebook staff lost their minds, confirming those rumors of being an “intolerant More...
Facebook hack exposed data to 50 million users
A Friday morning press release revealed the worse nightmare for the billions of Facebook users: a new hack compromised the unspecified data of 50 million users. “On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, More...
Facebook stock plummets $120 billion this week
Shares of Facebook fell 19 percent on Thursday, a day after the world’s largest social media company disclosed that its quarterly revenue did not live up to expectations and that its user metrics grew slower More...
Europe takes on Mark Zuckerberg and his dodging questions
Mark Zuckerberg’s big European test did not go well. The Facebook CEO apologized for the company’s mistakes but angered European lawmakers by dodging their questions. Zuckerberg was questioned on Tuesday by More...
Facebook suspends ‘around 200’ apps, reviewing misuse of data
Facebook said Monday that it has suspended “around 200” applications from its platform “pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data.” (Adweek) The social media giant More...
Artificial Intelligence and the Phenomenon of Fake News: Detection versus Creation
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive Facebook, was questioned for over ten hours by Congress. While the government was interested in finding out how Facebook´s privacy practices protected their clients More...
Facebook hasn’t learned: Campbell Brown says FB will define ‘quality news’ ‘not all news is created equal’
In the wake of more fake news on gun control perpetuated by the largest media outlets in the country and Lee Smith’s condemning reveal on their role in the bogus Russian collusion story, Facebook’s Head More...
Jim Carrey dumps Facebook stock due to Russian meddling during 2016 election
Actor Jim Carrey is applying the #resistance to Facebook and will be dumping all his stock in the company because they “profited from Russian interference in our elections.” In a series of tweets on More...
The Career Advice that Nobody Tells 18-Year-olds
Why are guidance counselors and career advisers always so hopeful? Not to ring the pessimism bell unnecessarily, but while certain jobs come with salaries that would have seemed absurdly high 20 years ago, the number More...
Celebration of science in Silicon Valley at the 6th annual ‘Breakthrough Prize’: airs December 3
The Breakthrough Prize will honor top achievements in the fields of physics, life sciences and mathematics, with a star-studded ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 3, at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. The More...
Trump attacked for removing Obama’s DACA order as ‘cruel’
President Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling it an “amnesty-first approach” and urging Congress to pass a replacement before he More...
How You Can Become The Next Great Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurialism has been on the rise over the last decade or so, to is far from being a modern concept but the power of the internet has given rise to people like Mark Zuckerberg and David Karp who are creating More...
New list of racist codenames reveals hate speech on social media, deceiving search engines
There will always be hate, anger, racism and prejudice. Those who don’t believe are naive and deny the existence of good and evil. Now a new list of racist terms and codes have unveiled a network using horrible More...
‘Jason Bourne’ fizzles with a contrived formula and weak ending
Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne with director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy) with a new film, simply titled Jason Bourne. Perhaps the pair will now realize that capturing lighting More...
Senate will investigate Facebook filtering out conservative stories
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is facing a US Senate inquiry over claims that the social network has been filtering conservative news and/or manipulating the trending topics to suppress news from the “Right More...
What works, what failed with ‘Dawn of Justice, DCU, Superman, Zack Snyder
Warner Bros executives will be increasingly concerned as the poor Batman V Superman reviews will pour in and the box office numbers will disappoint. This is no billion dollar film and will not kick off the enthusiasm More...
Round Two: Fighting Over Net Neutrality in India
In 2003, University of Columbia Professor, Tim Wu, coined the term “net neutrality,” to describe the principled theory which dictates that those providing and governing the internet should not discriminate against More...
