Social media firms in Europe are well on the way to a thousand cuts.
Seen on the screen of a device in Sausalito, Calif., Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the company’s new corporate name, Meta, during a virtual event.
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Facebook’s parent company is now called Meta, as part if its move to embrace the metaverse - the blurring of the online and real worlds via virtual and augmented reality technologies.
Mark Zuckerberg’s public comments contradict some of the information reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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Recent reporting suggests Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented different versions of the company’s policies in private and public. That could draw the scrutiny of regulators.
The term metaverse was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science-fiction novel Snow Crash.
Donald Trump at a press conference to announce a class action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEOs.
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Former President Trump is asking the courts to do what tycoon Trump once would have denounced: tell some of America’s most powerful corporations that they have no choice who they do business with.
Facebook’s new Oversight Board affirmed the social media network’s ban on Donald Trump.
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The social media giant’s third-party review panel upheld Facebook’s ban on Donald Trump. A corporate governance expert explains why Facebook created the Oversight Board.
Facebook’s Oversight Board recently upheld a decision to remove posts using ethnic slurs against Azerbaijanis. Here Azerbaijani troops march during a military parade in Baku in December 2020 in celebration of a peace deal with Armenia.
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The decisions made by Facebook through its content moderators and Oversight Board have significant implications for the exercise of worldwide freedom of expression and speech.
In November 2020 photo, a demonstrator joins others outside of the home of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to protest what they say is Facebook spreading disinformation in San Francisco.
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Jeremy Shtern, Toronto Metropolitan University; Ope Akanbi, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Steph Hill, Toronto Metropolitan University
American antitrust proceedings against Facebook represent a dramatic pivot, one that aligns the U.S. government with the global movement seeking greater public oversight of Big Tech.
Mark Zuckerberg’s own words are key evidence in the FTC lawsuit against Facebook.
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Tech giants are not just surviving the pandemic; they’re thriving. In 2021 and in the post-pandemic era, anti-trust regulations in tech must be revamped.
‘Real’ Donald Trump’s Twitter feed delivers a great deal of unreality.
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Will Facebook and Twitter be able to counter the tsunami of misinformation that could affect the election result? It’s unlikely.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook’s impact on the financial services and housing sectors.
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Since 2018, Canadian journalism has generated over $315 million for Facebook. Putting some of these profits back into the Canadian media may help address the losses faced by the industry.
House lawmakers grilled these four CEOs on July 29.
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As the government considers antitrust action against big US technology companies, a global business scholar identifies four myths that need busting first.
Those who are leaving the platform represent a small, but by no means insignificant, counter current to the norm.
Facebook announced Jan. 6 it will remove videos edited to mislead in ways that ‘aren’t apparent to an average person,’ and are the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning. Here, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 23, 2019.
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The abilities to detect and analyze deepfake videos is of the utmost urgency. Deepfakes are a serious threat to people’s security and our democratic institutions.
Manipulating our own personal data can allow us to manipulate capitalism.
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Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.