Mark Zuckberg might have started the world’s premier social network, but he’s not in the mood for new friends when’s he on holiday at his 700-acre estate on Kauai. He’s now suing hundreds of Native Hawaiian families who own small plots in the middle of his estate, giving them the right to traverse his lands,…
As the world’s mandarins prepare for their annual reunion in Davos, Switzerland, the British charity Oxfam is calling attention to income inequality by pointing out that eight billionaires — three of them Jewish — hold as much wealth as the poorest half of the Earth’s population. In their ranked list, headed by Microsoft founder Bill…
(JTA) — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his social media network that while he once questioned his Jewish upbringing, he now believes that “religion is very important.” The post came after he wished his followers a “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah” on Dec. 25, according to reports over the…
An Israeli civil rights organization just launched an online campaign attacking Facebook for inciting terrorism around the world. Facebook has faced a lot of criticism lately, especially for their handling of fake news stories. Last month, German prosecutors started investigating Mark Zuckerberg personally for Facebook’s slow removal of hate speech. Following the rampage by an…
While news media and social networks puzzle over how to combat fake news, internet activist Daniel Sieradski has developed his own scheme to fight the harmful phenomenon — a plug-in that alerts users of untrustworthy sites. Sieradski’s add-on to internet browsers, called “BS Detector,” flags content from websites that are recognized for propagating conspiracy theories,…
German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to react to the onslaught of hate speech on their platform as well as for not deleting posts denying the Holocaust. European countries like Germany have much stricter laws against hate speech than the United States. German law requires Facebook Germany to delete…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have built Facebook into the world’s largest social media site. Some think the two have also created the world’s largest news media site – and not everyone is happy about that. The average Facebook user has too many friends and follows too many pages for the site to display all…
— A plan by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reconstruct four homes around his own to protect his privacy was rejected by a city review board in Palo Alto, Calif. The Architectural Review Board last week voted 3-1 to recommend to the city’s planning director to deny Zuckerberg’s plan. The board said the plan would…
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