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…
Numerous journalists and human rights activists are accusing Facebook of cooperating with the Vietnamese government to silence critics of the regime, Buzzfeed reported. In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published Monday, over three dozen Vietnamese are saying that Facebook shut down the profiles or removed the posts of noted government critics. The letter comes…
Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly expressed how sorry he was for misleading Facebook users to several lawmakers ahead of his testimony before Congress Tuesday, the New York Times reported. Zuckerberg could be seen between meetings with members of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees, walking with an entourage and wearing a dark suit with a black tie….
Facebook deleted Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages to other Facebook users from their chat history, Tech Crunch reported. Normally, you can’t delete messages you’ve already sent to other Facebook users. But Facebook deleted Zuckerberg’s messages, so that users’ chat history with Zuckerberg shows just one side of the conversation. Facebook said it changed Zuckerberg’s Messenger settings…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week before a congressional committee over a political consulting firm’s misuse of customer data to interfere in the presidential election, lawmakers said on Wednesday. Zuckerberg will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, the panel said on Wednesday. “This…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to answer questions from British lawmakers about a scandal over the firm’s data is “astonishing,” the parliamentary committee chief who invited him to attend said on Tuesday. “Given the extraordinary evidence that we’ve heard so far today… it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit…
The Cambridge Analytica furor, like the uproar over Russian penetration of Facebook that preceded it, has painted a bullseye on Mark Zuckerberg. I get why he and other social media CEOs are waffling about testifying at congressional hearings: They’re afraid that pictures of their oath-taking will remind people of the tobacco company executives in the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Justice Ministry has opened an investigation into Facebook amid reports of the transfer of users’ data from the social media platform to the British data-mining company Cambridge Analytica. The ministry’s Privacy Protection Authority said in a statement Thursday that it will “investigate whether personal data of Israeli citizens was illegally used…
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