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…
When it came out last spring that the privacy of millions of Facebook users was compromised, the company’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg needed a plan to shift the anger — so she threw George Soros’s name into the mix. The New York Times reported Wednesday that while Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for…
Facebook took down a video posted to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s account that compared Jews to termites, calling it “Tier 1 hate speech,” The Wrap reported. “The video was taken down because it violates our hate speech policies,” a Facebook representative told The Wrap. In response to critics calling him an anti-Semite, Farrakhan,…
Facebook has become a means for ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, The New York Times reported. Myanmar military personnel has been using the social network over the past five years to prey on the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority group, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in Myanmar. Facebook took down the official accounts…
The Facebook executive who spurred internal outrage among the social media giant’s workforce for attending Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing in support of the embattled judge threw him a party in honor of his confirmation onto the Supreme Court, Politico reported. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s head of global policy, and his wife Laura hosted an intimate gathering…
Facebook’s headquarters have been rife with internal debate as hundreds of employees shared their disdain over a top executive’s presence at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing last week, The Wall Street Journal reported. The social media giant has since admitted it “made mistakes” in how it handled the situation, CNBC reported. Employees brought their…
Fifty million Facebook users were affected by the social media giant’s latest security breach — including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Facebook announced Friday that an attack on its computer network exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million accounts, the New York Times reported. It was the largest breach in the company’s…
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