(JTA) — WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum will leave the company over conflicts with Facebook, which bought the messaging service four years ago. Koum, a Jewish billionaire originally from Ukraine, reportedly also will leave Facebook’s board of directors, according to The Washington Post, which cited people familiar with internal discussions. His date of departure has not been…
The news that Israeli spies played a role in Cambridge Analytica’s illegal enterprises was not all that surprising — after all, plenty of Israeli ex-intelligence officers have used their knowhow for less than exemplary work, such as Black Cube, a firm founded by ex-Mossad officials, which followed Harvey Weinstein’s accusers. But some Israeli tech firms…
Facebook is the latest platform to expel white supremacist Richard Spencer. The website has removed three pages that belonged to the white supremacist, the BBC reported. Spencer, who is known for popularizing the term “alt-right,” ran the Facebook page of his National Policy Institute think tank, another one promoting his AltRight.com news analysis website, and…
One of the most notable exchanges in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony was when a senator asked him about his sleeping arrangements to make a point about user privacy. “Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” asked Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois….
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In congressional testimony, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted that the popular social media application would have the tools to stop hate speech before it spreads within the next decade. Zuckerberg, speaking Tuesday to senators concerned in part about Facebook’s susceptibility to foreign powers who would use the service to meddle in American…
What was perhaps most fascinating about today’s Senate committee inquiry into Facebook’s privacy policies in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was not the requisite public shaming and scapegoating, but what Mark Zuckerberg wore for his public castigation: a suit. Mark Zuckerberg looked bland and contrite — he avoided smiling, even smirking. When he did…
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told U.S. senators on Tuesday that the company was attempting to change in light of recent criticism, as he attempted to forestall any strict legislation aimed at the world’s largest social network. The 33-year-old internet mogul was grilled in a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary…
Seeking to draw attention to Facebook data scandals, global activist organization Avaaz set up a “troll army of fake Mark Zuckerbergs” outside of the capital building, New York Daily News reported. The demonstration is timed with Zuckerberg’s Senate hearing on the recent Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. One hundred identical cardboard cutouts of the 33-year-old…
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