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Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users. At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic […]
The latest news about Facebook is a wake-up call that ‘leaning in’ doesn’t mean doing right.
The platform has been used to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and promote hate. Regular users should ask if they are implicated in these failings.
From Facebook’s earliest days, Zuckerberg has followed the same pattern: take two steps forward, only to be pushed one step backward and land exactly where he wanted to be.
Two devastating pieces of journalism show how disastrous the media giant has become.
We’re all aware of the deal we make when we sign up with Facebook: we get somewhere to post vacation photos and stalk friends, and Mark Zuckerberg gets to sell your passion for fishing trips to fishing equipment retailers. What you might not realize is how deep or extensive the tracking goes—so let’s shed some light…
Thanks to decades of research on political economy, we know how hard it is to check the powers of a king.
Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he would combat the spread of conspiracy theories—while his company was doing the opposite.
Students at the Secondary School of Journalism staged a walkout to get the “personalized learning” regimen removed from their classrooms.
The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service they had details from a total of 120 million accounts.
Terrance Everett has been on the wrong side of the law for most of his adult life. When he was 18, he had to register as a sex offender for having sex with a 15-year-old, because she was under the age of consent. In his 20s, he was, he says, “hanging with the wrong people doing the wrong things,” resulting in charges…
With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
Major sites using Facebook's Single Sign-On don't implement basic security features, potentially making the fallout of last week's hack much worse.
FFS FACEBOOK.
FFS FACEBOOK.
A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.
Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more.
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.
Both encryption and the law are stacked against Facebook
Advertisers will no longer be able to hide their ads from people interested in things like “Passover,” “Evangelicalism,” “Native American culture,” “Islamic culture,” and “Buddhism.”