By any measure Facebook hasn’t had the best of years in 2018. But while toxic problems keep piling up and, well, raining acidly down on the social networking giant — from election interference, to fake accounts, faulty metrics, security flaws, ethics failures, privacy outrages and much more besides — the silver lining of having a core […]
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Europe dials up pressure on tech giants over election security
The European Union has announced a package of measures intended to step up efforts and pressure on tech giants to combat democracy-denting disinformation ahead of the EU parliament elections next May. The European Commission Action Plan, which was presented at a press briefing earlier today, has four areas of focus: 1) Improving detection of disinformation; 2) […]
View More Europe dials up pressure on tech giants over election security“The problem is Facebook,” lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerberg’s accountability stand-in
A grand committee of international parliamentarians empty-chaired Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing earlier today, after the Facebook founder snubbed repeat invitations to face questions about malicious, abusive and improper uses of his social media platform — including the democracy-denting impacts of so-called ‘fake news’. The UK’s DCMS committee has been leading the charge to hold Facebook […]
View More “The problem is Facebook,” lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerberg’s accountability stand-in‘Frat boy billionaire’ Mark Zuckerberg shamed by international lawmakers for not attending hearing
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Lawmakers from nine different countries openly mocked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not attending a hearing in the UK.
On Tuesday, two dozen lawmakers from nine international parliaments convened in London for the inaugural “International Grand Committee on Disinformation.” The intended purpose of the event was to grill Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s scandals involving fake news. While representatives from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore, and the UK were in attendance, one individual was glaringly absent: Mark Zuckerberg.
The Facebook founder and CEO was repeatedly asked to attend by the committee. The social media company sent its Vice President of Public Policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Richard Allan, in Zuckerberg’s place. Read more…
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UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online disinformation for the best part of this year — and whose repeat requests for facetime he’s just as repeatedly snubbed. In the latest high gear change, reported in yesterday’s Observer, the committee has used parliamentary powers […]
View More UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probeFacebook policy VP, Richard Allan, to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprised of 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis and the social network’s own string of data misuse scandals. But Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won’t be providing any answers. The company has repeatedly refused requests […]
View More Facebook policy VP, Richard Allan, to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’tGoogle lays outs narrow “EU election advertiser” policy ahead of 2019 vote
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union, ahead of elections next May when up to 350 million voters across the region will vote to elect 705 Members of the European Parliament. In a blog post laying out a narrow approach to democracy-denting disinformation, Google says it will introduce a […]
View More Google lays outs narrow “EU election advertiser” policy ahead of 2019 voteNow eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals
Facebook’s founder is facing pressure to accept an invite from eight international parliaments, with lawmakers wanting to question him about negative impacts his social network is having on democratic processes globally. Last week Facebook declined a invitation from five of these parliaments. The elected representatives of Facebook users want Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions in […]
View More Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandalsZuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments
Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation to face questions from a grand committee comprised of representatives from five international parliaments. MPs from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ireland and the UK have joined forces to try to pile pressure on the company’s founder, Mark […]
View More Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliamentsChina’s state-run Xinhua News Agency debuts ‘AI anchor’ to read the news
The state-run press agency in China, Xinhua, will now deliver news using “AI anchors” made of digital composites that use synthesized voices to “read” the news.
These anchors look realistic, but are actually digital composites that are rendered using…
White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press ban
Read this slowly: The White House’s press secretary has tweeted a manipulated video shared by the editor-at-large of conspiracy theorist outlet Infowars to attempt to justify its decision to suspend the press credentials of CNN’s chief white house correspondent. CNN’s Jim Acosta had his press pass pulled by the White House earlier today after press secretary […]
View More White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press banFacebook blocks 115 accounts for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
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Facebook has taken action against a number of Facebook and Instagram accounts which appear to be spreading fake news days ahead of the midterm U.S. elections.
In a blog post published Monday, the company said it blocked a total of 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts which “may be engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
Facebook defines this term as follows: “This is when people or organizations create networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing.”
It was the U.S. law enforcement that warned Facebook about these accounts. According to Facebook, all of the Pages associated with the accounts are in French or Russian, while the Instagram accounts have been “mostly” in English. The accounts focused on celebrities or political debate. Read more…
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