Mark Zuckerberg wants you to know he’s trying his damnedest to fix Facebook before it breaks democracy. Tonight he posted a 3,260-word battle plan for fighting election interference. Amidst drilling through Facebook’s strategy and progress, he slips in several notable passages revealing his own philosophy. Zuckerberg has cast off his premature skepticism and is ready […]
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Midterm attackers cited Black Lives Matter in false flag Facebook rally
Unknown midterm election attackers that Facebook has removed were hosting a political rally next month that they pinned on Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other organizations, according to third-party event websites that scraped the now-removed Facebook events. Facebook provided an image of the deleted “No Unite The Right 2 – DC” event as part of […]
View More Midterm attackers cited Black Lives Matter in false flag Facebook rallyFacebook’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 yearDigital campaigning vs democracy: UK election regulator calls for urgent law changes
A report by the UK’s Electoral Commission has called for urgent changes in the law to increase transparency about how digital tools are being used for political campaigning, warning that an atmosphere of mistrust is threatening the democratic process. The oversight body, which also regulates campaign spending, has spent the past year examining how digital campaigning […]
View More Digital campaigning vs democracy: UK election regulator calls for urgent law changesWhere to watch Zuckerberg’s meeting with EU MEPs on Tuesday
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting with elected representatives of the European Union’s ~500 million citizens will be livestreamed after all, it was confirmed today. MEPs had been angered by the original closed door format of the meeting, which was announced by the EU parliament’s president last week. But on Friday a majority of the political groups in […]
View More Where to watch Zuckerberg’s meeting with EU MEPs on TuesdayEU parliament pushes for Zuckerberg hearing to be live streamed
There’s confusion about whether a meeting between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the European Union’s parliament — which is due to take place next Tuesday — will go ahead as planned or not. The meeting was confirmed by the EU parliament’s president this week, and is the latest stop on Zuckerberg’s contrition tour, following the Cambridge Analytics […]
View More EU parliament pushes for Zuckerberg hearing to be live streamedZuckerberg will meet with European parliament in private next week
Who says privacy is dead? Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to take European parliamentarians’ questions about how his platform impacts the privacy of hundreds of millions of European citizens — but only behind closed doors. Where no one except a handful of carefully chosen MEPs will bear witness to what’s said. The private meeting will […]
View More Zuckerberg will meet with European parliament in private next weekBannon and Cambridge Analytica planned suppression of black voters, whistleblower tells Senate
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee today as part of the ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica and various forms of meddling in the 2016 elections, former employee and whistleblower Christopher Wylie said that the company and its then-VP Steve Bannon were pursuing voter suppression tactics aimed at black Americans.
View More Bannon and Cambridge Analytica planned suppression of black voters, whistleblower tells SenateFacebook stops accepting foreign-funded ads about Ireland’s abortion vote
Facebook has announced it has stopped accepting ads paid for by foreign entities that are related to a referendum vote in Ireland later this month, saying it’s acting to try to prevent outsiders from attempting to skew the vote. The referendum will decide whether to repeal or retain Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion. “Concerns have […]
View More Facebook stops accepting foreign-funded ads about Ireland’s abortion voteRussian-backed content may have reached 126 million on Facebook
Facebook has reportedly upped its estimate of how much content was produced by Russian-backed actors during the election and how widely that content was seen. According to prepared remarks due to be presented tomorrow but acquired by The Wall Str…
View More Russian-backed content may have reached 126 million on Facebook