Enlarge / Fb whistleblower Frances Haugen’s 60 Minutes job interview aired on October 3, 2021. (credit: 60 Minutes / CBS) The Facebook whistleblower revealed her identity last night along with the girl plans to reform the embattled social media company from the outside. Frances Haugen , a data scientist by training and a veteran of […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images ) Facebook had it rough last week. Leaked documents— many leaked documents—formed the backbone of a string of reports published in The Wall Street Journal. Together, the stories paint the picture of a company barely in control of its own creation. The revelations run the gamut: Facebook had […]
Enlarge (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images ) In the wake of the 2016 election, Fb knew it had a problem. Pages and fake accounts created by the particular Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency had spread through the social network and drawn massive engagement from real users. Facebook knew it had to get things under control. But […]
What fresh hell is it this time?? Look, we already knew Facebook had become the internet’s go-to repository for some of the most vile racism, insidious conspiracy theories, and unwanted attention from ex-boyfriends. And over the past few years, we’ve learned they’re so much worse. Hell, they very nearly destroyed our democracy — and still might! […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ) Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were posting things to their accounts that would get caught in the company’s automated moderation system or taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take […]
Enlarge / US and Texas flags flying outside the Texas State Capitol building in Austin. (credit: Getty Images | PA Thompson) Tx Governor Greg Abbott yesterday signed a ban on social press “censorship” into law, imposing new restrictions on tech companies that are certain to spark a court battle similar to one happening in Florida. […]
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Enlarge / Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are the three largest parts of Facebook’s sprawling empire… for now. (credit: Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images ) The Federal Trade Commission has refiled its lawsuit against Facebook and has included additional data that it hopes will bolster its case. The refiling is a […]