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 parliamentsCategory: Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg doesn’t want to talk about changing the business model
Facebook is testifying once again before congress about the Cambridge Analytica debacle and Facebook’s privacy policy in general. One representative in particular nailed down Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s position on many subjects. The U.S. Representative for California’s 18th congressional district Anna Eshoo started by setting the tone. “First, I believe that our democratic institutions are undergoing a stress […]
View More Zuckerberg doesn’t want to talk about changing the business modelMark Zuckerberg’s data was collected by third parties
In questioning before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce today, Mark Zuckerberg said that his personal Facebook data was harvested as part of the sweep of personal data that was used by third parties like Cambridge Analytica. As part of a fiery 4 minute round of questioning, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (who represents […]
View More Mark Zuckerberg’s data was collected by third partiesPalmer 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 […]
View More Palmer Luckey, political martyr?What Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony doesn’t say
There’s a lot of keen analytical hindsight on display in Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s written testimony to Congress ahead of his appearance at hearings on Wednesday, but nothing that indicates Facebook is ready to come to terms with the problems rotting the core of the social network. The bulk of Zuckerberg’s opening statement is […]
View More What Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony doesn’t sayFacebook’s mission changed, but its motives didn’t
In January, Facebook announced that it would be changing its feed algorithm to promote users’ well-being over time spent browsing content. That’s a relatively new approach for a company whose ethos once centered around “move fast, break things.” It wasn’t all that long ago (approximately a year and a half before the algorithm change) that […]
View More Facebook’s mission changed, but its motives didn’tZuckerberg refuses UK parliament summons over Fb data misuse
So much for ‘We are accountable‘; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons from a UK parliamentary committee that’s investigating how social media data is being used, and — as recent revelations suggest misused — for political ad targeting. The DCMS committee wrote to Zuckerberg on March 20 — following newspaper reports based on […]
View More Zuckerberg refuses UK parliament summons over Fb data misuseMark Zuckerberg is right to explore the potential of the blockchain for Facebook
In what is Mark Zuckerberg’s now-traditional New Year Speech, the Facebook supremo pledged to fix the social network’s many problems which bubbled up in 2017. Perhaps understandably, that admission hogged the headlines but Zuckerberg also said he plans to study encryption and the blockchain “see how best to use them in our services.” That statement comes amid a period… Read More