Business & Tech Facebook Whistleblower Who Shared Docs With Wall Street Journal Goes on '60 Minutes' to Spill More Dirt On Sunday, the whistleblower behind the bombshell pieces published by the Wall Street Journal last month went on '60 Minutes' to discuss why she jumped ship with a trove of damning internal research, specifically to show the public how the company prioritizes profit over the public good.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Facebook Pauses Development of 'Instagram Kids' Facebook is pausing development of its controversial 'Instagram Kids' app as it faces scrutiny in Washington, one Afghan family describes their harrowing journey to get back to the Bay Area, and the Grand Princess cruise ship is back at sea.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Denies Secret Deal With Jared Kushner to Never Censor Trump’s Posts Maybe this explains Facebook’s kid-gloves approach to right-wing propaganda — a new book claims Zuckerberg agreed to a “hands-off approach to conservative sites” in exchange for lax regulations.
Business & Tech Facebook Seemingly Still Monkeying With Algorithm to Limit Right-Wing Agitprop K-Pop stans and dog advice posts are the early benefactors of some possible Facebook algorithm and reporting changes, but the Dinesh D'Souzas and Ben Shapiros of the world are sharp at adapting to game the system.
Business & Tech Eight Months Into National Vaccine Effort, Facebook Says It's Removed Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Superspreaders After being on the receiving end of stern words from President Biden last month, Facebook says it has removed three-dozen pages and accounts associated with a dozen previously identified superspreaders of vaccine misinformation.
Business & Tech Facebook Now Pushing Off Return to Office Until January Facebook announced Thursday that its workers in U.S. offices, and some international workers, don't have to return to their desks in person until January 2022.
Business & Tech Biden Backs Down Slightly From Saying Facebook Is 'Killing People' With Vaccine Misinformation President Joe Biden attempted to de-escalate a war of words he started last week with Facebook, walking back a statement he made about the platform "killing people" due to its failure to curb misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Dismantling CrowdTangle Team Because It Showed the Platform to Be a Right-Wing Echo Chamber CrowdTangle, the analytics tool for social media posts that Facebook acquired five years ago, may not be long for this world, and its mostly independent team within Facebook is now being broken up.
SF Politics Trump Is Now Suing All the Tech Companies Who Banned Him Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg, American Hero on a Dork's Surfboard? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a strange but totally on-brand Instagram video on July 4th of himself holding a big American flag riding an electric foil surfboard on a lake, set to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
Business & Tech Facebook's Market Cap Tops $1 Trillion for the First Time After Antitrust Case Is Dismissed Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
Business & Tech Facebook's Cryptocurrency Dreams Are Not Dead; Diem Expected to Launch This Year Remember when Facebook started talking about launching its own crypto coin two years ago called Libra and everyone balked and then it kind of went away? Well, it didn't totally go away, it's now called Diem, and the project is still moving forward toward a launch.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
Business & Tech Facebook 'Supreme Court' Verdict Is In: Trump Ban Stands (But Maybe Not Forever) Facebook's appointed Oversight Board has just issued its most notable content moderation decision to date, and they say that the ban of President Trump in the wake of January 6th was justified.
Business & Tech Leaked Internal Facebook Memo Shows They Knew They Enabled Insurrection Planning A company memo tells a different story than Mark Zuckerberg told Congress, as Facebook knew that “super-inviters” found ways to promote false election nonsense after the main "Stop the Steal" group was deplatformed.
Business & Tech A Man Sued Facebook For Sending Him an Unwanted Text; Supreme Court Rules Facebook Didn't Break Any Laws Facebook's sending of an automated text message regarding a suspicious login to a person who had not opted in for such messages is not the equivalent of a robocall by a telemarketer, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today.
Business & Tech Facebook To Start Reopening Bay Area Offices in May — Sans Free Food and Tech Shuttles Facebook is priming to open its Bay Area offices starting May 10, but the social media giant will not offer employees free food or transit. Thankfully, it looks like we won’t have to contend with its tech buses busying our streets and bike lanes for the immediate future.
Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
Business & Tech Facebook Lifts Ban on Political Ads, Because Everything's Good Now? The indefinite ban that Facebook placed on political advertising right after the November election has been lifted, calling to question whether a) Facebook really needs this money, and b) the country is in the clear when it comes to the spread of misinformation about political figures.
Business & Tech Report Shows Facebook Rarely Tagged Trump’s Lies as ‘False,’ Showed Different Versions of Fact-Check Labels to Different Users An outside company has analyzed reams of Facebook data, and found that ‘false’ or ‘disputed’ tags were shown to some users, but not others, possibly based on geography, and almost never slapped on Trump posts.
Business & Tech Apple's War With Facebook Continues as New Privacy Controls Will Stop Apps From Illicitly Tracking Our Movements Apple issued an 11-page report on Thursday titled "A Day in the Life of Your Data," and announced plans to roll out a new layer of privacy control this spring that will prevent iPhone apps from tracking our movements without our knowledge.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Board Issues Its First Rulings On Misinformation, Hate Speech The nascent Oversight Board established by Facebook last year to serve as a "Supreme Court" or final arbiter for thorny content moderation questions has just issued its first five rulings.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Panel Deciding Fate of Trump's Account Is Taking Public Comment Facebook's long promised but still barely operational Oversight Board — the so-called "Supreme Court" of content moderation — is taking on the case of Trump's locked account. And they want to hear from you.
