According to COO Sheryl Sandberg, getting ahead of an event called “No Unite the Right 2, DC” is the reason behind Facebook’s decision to disclose new platform behavior that closely resembles previous Russian state-sponsored activity meant to sow political discord in the US. “We’re sharing this today because the connection between these actors and the […]
View More Facebook really doesn’t want users to go to a fake Unite the Right counter-protest next weekCategory: Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook will allow you to see all the active ads from any Page
Facebook made two announcements about ad transparency today — one around the ads purchased by any Page and another around expanding its recently announced archive of political ads. It seems like ad transparency is a big focus today, as Twitter just launched its own Ads Transparency Center, allowing anyone to see ads bought by any […]
View More Facebook will allow you to see all the active ads from any PageSheryl Sandberg at MIT commencement: ‘It’s hard knowing that you let people down’
Sheryl Sandberg hopes future business leaders can learn from Facebook’s recent failures.
Speaking at MIT’s commencement ceremony Friday, the Facebook COO spoke about the company’s recent struggles and encouraged graduates not to make the same “painfu…
Facebook didn’t see Cambridge Analytica breach coming because it was focused ‘on the old threat’
In light of the massive data scandal involving Cambridge Analytica around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a lot of people wondered how something like that could’ve happened. Well, Facebook didn’t see it coming, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said at the Code conference this evening. “If you go back to 2016 and you think about what […]
View More Facebook didn’t see Cambridge Analytica breach coming because it was focused ‘on the old threat’EU 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 streamedHow Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging
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View More How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messagingServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion dollar startup
The city of Glendale, Calif. seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team […]
View More ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion dollar startupA brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimony
The Facebook founder will be questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees later today — in a session entitled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data.” Mark Zuckerberg is also due to testify before Congress on Wednesday — to be asked about the company’s use and protection of user […]
View More A brief history of Facebook’s privacy hostility ahead of Zuckerberg’s testimonySheryl Sandberg desperately tries to soften Facebook’s image before Congressional hearings
Sheryl Sandberg has been on a big media tour ahead of her boss’s first-time appearance in Congress next week. She’s interviewed with digital media outlets, television networks, and radio shows, and she’s spoken many words.
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Facebook admits its data drama has ‘a few’ advertisers pressing pause
In an interview with Bloomberg, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg disclosed the fact that ongoing privacy revelations around Cambridge Analytica have some advertisers skittish. When asked about how many advertisers had paused their ad spending, Sandberg would only get as specific as saying that “a few” had done so, leaving plenty of room for interpretation. She told […]
View More Facebook admits its data drama has ‘a few’ advertisers pressing pauseFacebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancements
There’s no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world. In a phone interview with Reuters yesterday Mark Zuckerberg declined to commit to universally implementing changes to the platform that are necessary to comply with […]
View More Facebook to exclude US users from some privacy enhancementsFacebook hit with shareholder lawsuits over data misuse crisis
The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal. According to SF Gate the company has been hit with four suits in federal courts so far this week following fresh revelations about how Facebook’s app permissions were abused to surreptitiously suck out vast amounts […]
View More Facebook hit with shareholder lawsuits over data misuse crisis