Following the election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret, previously unreported call to then president-elect Donald Trump, during which, sources told BuzzFeed News, he congratulated the Trump team on its victory and successful campaign — which spent millions of dollars on advertising with Facebook. The private call between Zuckerberg and Trump, which was confirmed…
(JTA) — Berlin issued a withering critique of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement that he would not remove Holocaust denial posts from the widely used social platform, stating that such a policy was contrary to German law. “There must be no place for anti-Semitism. This includes verbal and physical attacks on Jews as well…
If it’s true that the truth will out, then it will out very, very slowly. A new report from Buzzfeed News on Thursday found that Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a secret phone call to Donald Trump to congratulate him after he won the 2016 presidential election. Buzzfeed spoke to three people who…
Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that he would not remove Holocaust deniers from Facebook, because he did not think they were deliberately lying. In an interview with Recode, Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, raised the issue of Holocaust denial himself as an example of speech Facebook would allow on its platform. “I find [Holocaust denial] deeply…
(JTA) – Mark Zuckerberg clarified remarks he made in an interview published online in which he said that he would not automatically remove Holocaust-denying posts from Facebook. The remark by Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, said in an interview with tech journalist Kara Swisher that was published on the Recode website, was…
Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg defended Holocaust deniers in a recent interview with Recode, suggesting that their posts are not removed from the social network because it is unclear if they were written maliciously or in ignorance. When addressing the issue of “fake news” and the spread of information, Zuckerberg said content that is…
In an interview with Recode on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to defend and explain away Holocaust deniers. In a heated interview with Kara Swisher marked by both parties interrupting each other and referencing Facebook’s biggest controversies, Zuckerberg brought up Holocaust denial as an example of free speech that should not be removed from Facebook. In…
Update, July 19: This article has been updated with a statement from the artist behind the cartoon. At today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on “social media filtering practices,” representatives from an anti-Facebook group held up signs depicting Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg as octopuses whose tentacles wrap around the entire planet behind the head of…
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