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…
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well. Here at the Schmooze, the Forward’s pop culture desk, we’ve been pretty relentless in our criticism of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. But damn! Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, whose clean-cut looks and professed Jewish and American values have always endeared them to us just as Javanka’s have…
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…
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…
In a lengthy statement posted Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced efforts to prevent bad actors from using his social network to interfere in elections. The statement comes amid ongoing revelations about Russian efforts to use social media to disrupt U.S. elections in 2016. Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook has new technology to combat fake accounts,…
(JTA) — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video of himself blowing a several-foot-long shofar. Zuckerberg executed a perfect tekiyah-teruah-shevarim combination on the twisted ram’s horn as one of his daughters is heard crying in the background. The video was posted on Monday evening, the second night of Rosh Hashanah, under the heading “Shana…
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