The massacre of 50 Muslims by an Australian white nationalist in the New Zealand city of Christchurch this month appears to have changed some minds at the dominant social media platform. In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Facebook said that it would ban support of white nationalism and white separatism on its platform. “It’s clear…
At a high school in Maryland, there’s a list circulating that ranks a group of female students on their looks, The Washington Post reported. The list includes the names of 18 girls in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, in a heavily Jewish area of Maryland. The list, typed in the…
Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview Wednesday that teenagers who downloaded a controversial data collection program created by Facebook knew what they were downloading, Gizmodo reported. The program, created by Facebook’s market research team, was marketed to — and downloaded by — users as young as 13, TechCrunch reported. Once downloaded onto a user’s phone,…
Facebook has been rife with scandals, but so far there has been no news of a solution or change in strategy. So the Washington Post is offering a prediction: Sometime this year, Sheryl Sandberg will leave her post as chief operating officer. “Facebook needs to do something dramatic to signal it understands accountability,” writes technology…
Facebook stumbled quite a bit this year, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took a hit. Zuckerberg’s net worth fell nearly $20 billion, making his the largest drop in fortune in 2018, Bloomberg reported. But don’t feel too bad for the 34-year-old: He’s still worth $53 billion. He wasn’t alone in his loss. American billionaires saw…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Facebook blocked the account of Yair Netanyahu after he shared content banned by the platform that called for avenging the deaths of Israelis killed in recent days by Palestinian terrorists. Netanyahu, the son of the Israeli prime minister, also called Facebook “thought police” in a post criticizing the removal of previous content….
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg was directly involved in the company’s actions against liberal megadonor George Soros, asking the social media company’s communications staff to research his financial activities, the New York Times reported. Sandberg asked for the information in an email to a senior executive in January, days after Soros called Facebook and…
The Facebook executive who ordered a PR firm to paint George Soros as the secret hand behind attacks on the company serves on the board that oversees the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Facebook is facing allegations that its efforts to link critics to the billionaire Jewish financier, revealed in a New York Times story…
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