One small tweak to an algorithm, one giant crater in Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth.
The Facebook CEO took a $3 billion hit to his net worth on Friday as his company’s stock dipped following news of major changes to the company’s News Feed.
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Facebook announces a big News Feed change — and just wants you to be happy
Facebook is re-tweaking its News Feed again.
This time it wants to bring it back to friends and family instead of viral videos and media posts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post Thursday.
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Facebook feed change sacrifices time spent and news outlets for “well-being”
CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook today, “I’m changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions.” VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri tells TechCrunch “I expect that the amount of distribution for publishers will go down because a lot of publisher content is just… Read More
I deleted Facebook off my phone and you should too
I deleted Facebook’s app off my phone more than a month ago.
And reader: I feel free.
My days of mindlessly scrolling through random updates from my mom’s friends and people I haven’t spoken to since high school are over.
And yours …
Why there’s so much hype about Facebook and cryptocurrency
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Facebook may soon begin exploring uses for cryptocurrency technology.
The company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his annual personal memo on Thursday — mostly about being a better CEO — but one throwaway reference to cryptocurrency technology captured much of the media’s attention.
Writing about how the last year saw many people lose trust in social media and tech companies, Zuckerberg noted the growing importance of de-centralizing forces, like the rise of cryptocurrency.
He wrote:
Some people who read the memo were quick to jump to the conclusion that Zuckerberg was referring to Bitcoin. That inspired breathless headlines (many of which have since been changed) speculating about Zuckerberg’s desire to integrate Bitcoin into Facebook. Read more…
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Crunch Report | Ethereum Hits $1,000 a Coin
Ethereum hits $1,000 a coin, Eero lays off 20% of staff and Mark Zuckerberg issues his 2018 challenge. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View More Crunch Report | Ethereum Hits $1,000 a CoinMark Zuckerberg’s personal challenge is all about fixing Facebook before it implodes
Mark Zuckerberg is arguably the public face of the internet we never chose, but also the one we deserve based on the time we all spend using Facebook products. At some point, Facebook became so big that Zuckerberg’s personal challenges became news. And this year’s personal challenge is not personal at all — it’s all about work. In 2017, Zuckerberg wanted to meet and… Read More
The time has come for Mark Zuckerberg to reveal his 2018 personal challenge
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Mark Zuckerberg is using 2018 as even further incentive to fix the hot mess that is Facebook.
On Thursday Zuck announced — via Facebook of course — his annual “personal challenge.” It’s a tradition he started in 2009 in which he kicks off each new year by committing to learning something new.
Over the years, he says, he’s visited every state in the U.S., run 365 miles, built an AI for his own house, read 25 books, and even learned Mandarin. But in 2018 the Facebook CEO will work toward fixing important issues on the social media platform.
Good.
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View More The time has come for Mark Zuckerberg to reveal his 2018 personal challengeZuckerberg-backed FWD.us: Congress failed Dreamers
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Congress passed a stopgap measure on Thursday that will prevent a government shutdown, at least until January. But FWD.us, the organization founded by such tech titans as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, isn’t happy about one thing the spending bill is missing: protection for Dreamers.
Democratic leaders wanted an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as young children — in the bill. That didn’t happen, but the legislation passed anyway, funding the government until Jan. 19. Read more…
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View More Zuckerberg-backed FWD.us: Congress failed DreamersFacebook abandons an attempt to curb fake news. Here’s why
Facebook is throwing away “disputed flags,” one of its several attempts to curb the spread of fake news across the social network.
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About a year ago, Facebook laun…
‘Misinformer of the Year’ award goes to Mark Zuckerberg
Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck.
Those are some of the big media figures Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is joining with this year’s dubious distinction of “Misinformer of the Year.”
That’s the title given to the social media …
Facebook on how it affects your mental health: It’s you, not them
Facebook is a symbol of one of the great debates of the 21st century: Is social media a gift to humanity, or is it a curse that drives us further apart and deeper into our own ideological echo chambers?
There is no simple answer to that questio…