Pressure is mounting on Mark Zuckerberg to speak publicly about Facebook’s alleged misuse of personal data about over 50 million users, Bloomberg Technology reported. Facebook recently admitted that it allowed the data to be used offline by Cambridge Analytica, the political research firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer. The data…
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party suspended several members of a private Facebook group that included the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, over alleged anti-Semitic hate speech. Reports in the British media Thursday did not name those who were suspended. The group had thousands of members. A spokesperson for Corbyn, a left-wing politician whom many Jews accuse…
Billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros did not mince in his speech Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Soros’s most blistering attack was directed at President Trump. Soros, a major Democratic donor, warned that Trump is a “danger to the world” and said that Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un…
While In real life we carefully avoid rebuking others, with the advent of social media and its artificial nature, often vitriolic criticism has become an almost daily challenge. Criticism can serve as a tool for improvement, but online, it often makes the situation worse and becomes a destructive force that wrecks individuals, families, communities and…
In previous years, Mark Zuckerberg set personal goals for himself: He vowed to learn Mandarin, to read at least two books a month and to travel to as many U.S. states as possible. This year, perhaps grasping the enormous role his social media network played in the 2016 elections and in shaping America’s political discourse,…
It took almost 18 years, but kosher-observant employees at Facebook’s main campus in Menlo Park, California, finally have a kosher dining option. According to YNetNews, the venue — a large “caravan” that’s being called “Kosher Truck” — joins 11 other eateries at the company’s enormous headquarters. Kosher Truck, which is open to all of Facebook’s…
Ironic misandry in the form of “ban men!” and “I want to take a nice long soak in male tears!” has become pretty popular lately. Yet, as a new piece in The Daily Beast revealed, women can be banned for calling men scum on Facebook. ProPublica’s investigation into Facebook’s algorithm revealed that white men are,…
A popular Facebook group for New York mothers that shut down after a raging controversy over a new children’s book called “P is for Palestine” is back up and operating under a strict new set of rules to prevent such fights in the future. The group “UES Mommas,” which had more than 27,000 members, usually…
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