Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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WhatsApp end-to-end encryption set to weaken with Facebook integration
According to a report, to universally preserve end-to-end encryption poses a whole additional set of critical challenges for Facebook.
January 26, 2019 -
Facebook has multi-year plans to overhaul its systems: Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg said his personal challenge has been to focus on preventing election interference, stopping the spread of hate speech and misinformation.
December 29, 2018 -
Need to do more to advance civil rights: Facebook COO
Sandberg said that other misinformation related to voting -- including false claims of polling place closures, long lines, and wait times -- is proactively sent to third-party fact-checkers for review
December 19, 2018 -
Facebook temporarily removes post on ‘black people problem’
The post said many black users think "their content is more likely to be taken down on the platform than any other group"
December 5, 2018 -
I have no plan to step down: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
The Times report also suggested that Facebook knew about Russian influence activities on its platform as early as spring 2016.
November 21, 2018 -
Facebook investors want CEO Mark Zuckerberg to resign: Report
A media report suggested that Facebook hired Definers Public Affairs, a Washington, DC-based conservative firm which did PR work for the social networking giant "and dug up dirt on the company's competitors and its critics".
November 17, 2018 -
UP court receives complaint against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Others named in the complaint are Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, Facebook India Head Ajit Mohan.
October 18, 2018 -
2019 Elections: Facebook to establish task force to prevent abuse by ‘bad actors’
The introduction of the same feature in India would help users identify political propaganda easily.
October 6, 2018 -
US groups accuse Facebook of compromising children’s privacy law
Facebook launched Messenger Kids on iOS last December to let kids under 13 chat with friends and family. The app was later expanded to Android users in the United States, Canada and other countries.
October 4, 2018 -
Phishing for trouble
“With great power comes great responsibility” and a generation raised on Spider-Man ~ the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg included ~ is certainly au fait with this oft-quoted piece of wisdom imparted by Ben Parker to his nephew Peter, who turns into the wall-climbing power house. It would be underwhelmingly naïve to accuse Facebook of being …
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October 4, 2018 -
Breaking barriers
Controversially omitted from the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues in 1974, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has donated the entirety of a recent prize to boost diversity in science.
September 12, 2018 -
Facebook eliminates 32 accounts accused of election interference
Facebook found itself at the center of controversy during the 2016 presidential election for the use of its platform to disseminate hoaxes and fake news.
August 1, 2018 -
Will AI finally kill us?
Earlier this year, WHO classified video-gaming as a disorder. It is defined in the draft Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases as a mental health condition. Understandably, controversy has erupted round this move as many experts believe that sufficient data doesn’t exist to support this drastic diagnosis. Besides, the symptoms defined are too …
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July 23, 2018 -
Facebook likely to unveil eye-tracking technology in future
Facebook is bullish on eye-tracking technology tools that will let the social media giant detect users’ eye movement and emotions but has denied using it at the moment, said media reports. In a 229-page document addressed to US Congress in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, Facebook revealed that it had looked into …
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June 14, 2018 -
Facebook says privacy-setting bug affected as many as 14 million
Facebook said a software bug led some users to post publicly by default regardless of their previous settings. The bug affected as many as 14 million users over several days in May. The problem, which Facebook said it has fixed, is the latest privacy scandal for the world’s largest social media company. It said the …
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June 8, 2018 -
Hillary Clinton wants to be Facebook CEO
The former US presidential candidate was at Harvard on Friday receiving the Radcliffe Medal, which honours people who have "had a transformative impact on society".
May 27, 2018 -
Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy in US
The firm had announced early May that it would close down and file for insolvency in Britain and US, after failing to recover from a massive data-harvesting scandal
May 18, 2018