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…
Yeah, Sheryl Sandberg got me too. When the Facebook COO published her feminist manifesto, “Lean In,” I was skeptical of her ability to truly understand the demands and pressures on most working women in America. Surely her fabulous wealth, fame and A-list connections meant she remained blithely unaware of the privilege that status conferred. “To…
This week, the New York Times released an explosive report revealing that Facebook hired a far-right consultant group to smear privacy activists. Worse, the consultants used anti-Semitic conspiracy theories connecting the activists to Jewish billionaire and Holocaust survivor George Soros. Worse still, this anti-Semitic smear-tactic was executed at the behest of Facebook’s Jewish COO Sheryl…
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