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A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment”?
Former moderator suing social network in Ireland over health impact of scouring website
The “Liam Bot” teaches employees what to say if friends or family ask difficult questions about the company over the holidays.
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
to learn something new. I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin. Last year, I focused almost all my time on addressing important issues around elections, speech, privacy, and well-being. Facebook is a different company now than it was a couple of years ago because of a much greater focus on these questions. These issues are complex and we will continue focusing on them for years to come. There are so many big questions about the world we want to live in and technology's place in it. Do we want technology to keep giving more people a voice, or will traditional gatekeepers control what ideas can be expressed? Should we decentralize authority through encryption or other means to put more power in people's hands? In a world where many physical communities are weakening, what role can the internet play in strengthening our social fabric? How do we build an internet that helps people come together to address the world's biggest problems that require global-scale collaboration? How do we build technology that creates more jobs rather than just building AI to automate things people do? What form will this all take now that the smartphone is mature? And how do we keep up the pace of scientific and technological progress across fields? My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society -- the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties. Every few weeks I'll talk with leaders, experts, and people in our community from different fields and I'll try different formats to keep it interesting. These will all be public, either on my Facebook or Instagram pages or on other media. This will be intellectually interesting, but there's a personal challenge for me here too. I'm an engineer, and I used to just build out my ideas and hope they'd mostly speak for themselves. But given the importance of what we do, that doesn't cut it anymore. So I'm going to put myself out there more than I've been comfortable with and engage more in some of these debates about the future, the tradeoffs we face, and where we want to go. I'm looking forward to another year of learning and personal improvement, and to discussing a lot of important questions with all of you!
Facebook once built an internal app that let employees identify people using facial recognition and their phone cameras, Business Insider reported Friday. From the report: The app, which was developed between 2015 and 2016, utilised Facebook's vast collection of user identities to automatically reco...
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Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Facebook still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white.
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
In mijn nieuwsbrief: kwalijke technologiejournalistiek, Kamervragen over mijn onthulling, een nieuw boek over Uber en narcisten in de politiek.
If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name.
Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions:What exactly has Facebook changed?How many Facebook...
Our face recognition setting provides an easy on or off switch.
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
Facebook’s independent oversight board will have a final charter by August. It’s messy, but so is every constitutional convention
Tim Wu rebuts Zuck's reasons for exempting Facebook from antitrust enforcement
Topadviseur Nick Clegg reageert op schandalen en zorgen rondom het techbedrijf. "We kunnen ons boos maken over technologie of we kunnen een oplossing vinden."
Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times
John de Mol eist dat Facebook reclame met zijn portret voorgoed blokkeert. Over een gelijksoortige eis kwam een belangrijke uitspraak uit Straatsburg.
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
The social media giant is planning to set up a crypto-currency in around 12 countries by early 2020.
Facebook’s former chief security officer said Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg should be replaced as the company’s CEO, arguing that he has too much control over the social media giant.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition. According to Consumer Reports, despite Facebook rolling out a new privacy setting last year allowing use...
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
Former British MEP is sent stern letter accusing Facebook of ignoring how EU law works
Pulling apart the social network could keep the EU busy in court for a decade, says Margrethe Vestager.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No.
Overal ter wereld maken overheden ad hoc regels om de verspreiding van haat en desinformatie tegen te gaan. Die wetgeving zal niet slagen zolang bedrijven als Facebook en YouTube hun luiken gesloten houden en hun verantwoordelijkheid kunnen blijven afschuiven.
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
Wie Facebook zegt, zegt: schandalen. Je zou verwachten dat de aandeelhouders van Facebook het bedrijf afstraffen voor alle misleiding, privacyschending en ander wangedrag. Maar doen ze dat ook? Om daar achter te komen, onderzochten we de invloed van de schandalen op de aandelenkoers van Facebook.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg touts "reducing permanence" as a principle for his company's privacy-focused future, but it's hard to make things disappear from the internet.
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who’ve died
New Zealand’s top privacy official on Monday called Facebook “morally bankrupt,” remarks that come in the wake of last month's mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques that were livestreamed on the social media platform,
Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant for “authentication” to its own ends. Incredibly, this time, the company managed to accomplish all three in one fell swoop.What happened?Last weekend, news broke...
Site says recently live streams are prioritised for review only when flagged for suicide
There is nothing more important to us than protecting people’s information
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook would be ‘pivoting to privacy’. That’s an empty pledge
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on importan
Facebook’s promise to build a “privacy-focused platform” is little more than a hollow reaction to recent PR disasters.
Wie niet luisteren wil, moet maar voelen
This year I'm hosting a series of discussions on the future of technology and society. Here's the first one with Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain.
I joined his seminar and we covered topics...
I joined his seminar and we covered topics...