Twitter drags CBS News for misleading headline, tweet about that viral Beto O’Rourke video

If you bothered to log onto your Twitter account at least once this week, you almost definitely saw the viral video of Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke responding thoughtfully to a question about whether he finds it disrespectful when NFL pl…

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Ted Cruz sent Facebook 209 questions, including this bizarre one about Taylor Swift

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Ted Cruz has some questions for Facebook: 209 of them to be precise.

That’s how many written questions the Texas senator submitted to the company following CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hours of Congressional testimony, and good lord were some of them were mind-numbingly stupid — including one abut a Taylor Swift song.

Some quick background: Following Zuckerberg’s marathon Congressional hearings in April, senators also submitted thousands of followup questions to the company. Facebook finally got around to submitting all those answers last week, and the Senate published the questions and answers in full Monday.  Read more…

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Bad Lip Reading made a truly great video of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook interrogation

Bad Lip Reading has made a video about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent Facebook interrogation, and it’s everything we could’ve hoped for and more.
In the fake rendition of Zuckerberg speaking, he immediately interrupts the procession by asking his mom f…

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I wrote the Facebook report Ted Cruz can’t stop talking about. He’s getting it all wrong.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days this week getting grilled by Congress in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The hearings were often hampered by their awkward format and strict time constraints. But at least some legislators took…

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Palmer Luckey, political martyr?

In the middle of testimony over Facebook’s privacy scandal, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took a moment to grill Mark Zuckerberg over his company’s political loyalties. In the course of a testy exchange between Sen. Cruz and Zuckerberg, the senator brought up the dismissal of Palmer Luckey, the controversial founder of virtual reality tech development […]

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Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaign

Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election.In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook explained […]

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