Facebook avoided some of the toughest inquiries from reporters yesterday during a conference call about its efforts to fight election interference and fake news. The company did provide additional transparency on important topics by subjecting itself to intense questioning from a gaggle of its most vocal critics. A few bits of interesting news did emerge: […]
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Facebook’s chief legal officer to leave this year
Facebook’s chief legal officer Colin Stretch has announced he’ll be out by the end of the year. In the inevitable Facebook post explaining why he’s moving on, Stretch writes that after he and his wife made a decision to move back to DC from California “a few years ago… we knew it would be difficult for me to […]
View More Facebook’s chief legal officer to leave this yearFacebook reminds us: Never tweet. Just don’t.
Facebook has been messing up a lot lately, but the advertising giant’s most recent misstep still managed to surprise in that it took place in a rather unexpected venue: Twitter.
Following news that Facebook allowed phone manufacturers to access the d…
Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accounts
Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government. The company shared both stats about the account deletions and samples of the content they shared. Facebook has removed […]
View More Facebook reveals Russian troll content, shuts down 135 IRA accountsFacebook: ‘We’re willing to give up profitability’ for election integrity
Facebook’s security and product leads have been acting globally in the company’s effort to regain user trust and protect the integrity of elections worldwide. The world’s largest social network cannot take back what occurred on its platform during th…
View More Facebook: ‘We’re willing to give up profitability’ for election integrityIt was not consent, it was concealment
Facebook’s response to the clutch of users who are suddenly woke — triggered to delve into their settings by the Facebook data misuse scandal and #DeleteFacebook backlash — to the fact the social behemoth is, quietly and continuously, harvesting sensitive personal data about them and their friends tells you everything you need to know about the rotten state […]
View More It was not consent, it was concealmentFacebook’s security head to leave after dispute over handling of interference
As Facebook’s never ending string of crises continues, internal disagreements have prompted its chief security officer to leave.
Alex Stamos is due to depart the company in August after disputes over how much Facebook should reveal about govern…
Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos may leave Facebook over disinformation drama
Facebook’s latest public controversy may have claimed its first major casualty. According to reporting from the New York Times, the social media giant is poised to part ways with its high-profile chief security officer, Alex Stamos. That story suggests that Stamos created friction within Facebook by pushing for an aggressive approach to exploring and disclosing […]
View More Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos may leave Facebook over disinformation drama