Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg wields excessive power, former colleague says
5 years, 2 months ago

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg wields excessive power, former colleague says

ABC  

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has too much control over the company and lacks accountability, according to one of his former senior executives. The social media company also needs to take "more responsibility" for its "negative effects" on the world to regain the public's trust, said Stephen Scheeler — who led Facebook's Australian and New Zealand office from 2013–17. "I know Mark … I have huge respect, and I do think he's a great leader," Mr Scheeler told the ABC. " Like any major player in the technology sector, Mr Scheeler is against the idea of governments breaking up major companies Facebook, Google and Amazon for being "too powerful". "Right now, it's just a little too soon … too raw, too fresh — and Facebook is not trusted enough to be the one that leads the charge."

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Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago
1 month, 1 week ago

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of staff for Trump’s second term, said Zuckerberg, like other business leaders, wants to …

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago
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1 month, 1 week ago

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago

NPR  

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago toggle caption Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of staff for …

End of enmity? Trump, Mark Zuckerberg dine at US President-elect's resort
1 month, 1 week ago

End of enmity? Trump, Mark Zuckerberg dine at US President-elect's resort

India Today  

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the President-elect's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former President who was once banned from that social network. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of staff for Trump's second term, said Zuckerberg, like other business leaders, wants to support Trump's economic plans. …

How Mark Zuckerberg is moving to MAGA - after being called a 'secret Republican' in 2013
4 months, 1 week ago

How Mark Zuckerberg is moving to MAGA - after being called a 'secret Republican' in 2013

Daily Mail  

Mark Zuckerberg's bombshell letter to Congress this week calling the Biden administration's censorship campaign 'wrong' may signal yet another rightward shift in his politics. The billionaire tech mogul has even struck up a friendship with Trump's longtime ally UFC president Dana White — who introduced Trump at this year's 2024 Republican convention and still dreams of hosting a charity cage …

Mark Zuckerberg praises Donald Trump's 'badass' response to assassination attempt
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Mark Zuckerberg praises Donald Trump's 'badass' response to assassination attempt

India TV News  

Washington: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has heaped praises on former US President and Republican presidential candidate for this year's election, Donald Trump, for the latter's response to the recent assassination attempt, calling it "one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life." The entrepreneur declined to endorse any presidential candidate and said he would not play a …

Mark Zuckerberg's love for cage matches a major risk for Meta, say concerned investors
11 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg's love for cage matches a major risk for Meta, say concerned investors

Hindustan Times  

Meta has been in the news over the past week due to its massive surge in share price after stellar quarterly reports. However, the investors of the company are now concerned over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's extracurricular activities, more specifically, his love for cage matches. Meta's CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his interest and participated in …

Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, review: how Facebook changed (then ruined) the world
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, review: how Facebook changed (then ruined) the world

The Telegraph  

Remember when Facebook seemed harmless? In Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse, one former executive put it this way: “When I first joined, movies were being made; the founder was on the cover of Time magazine; you’re overthrowing dictators. Now, you’re being told you destroyed democracy.” The film traced Facebook from Zuckerberg’s invention to world domination and scandals involving data harvesting, …

Old Chat of Mark Zuckerberg Calling Facebook Users 'Dumb' Resurfaces, Elon Musk Reacts
1 year, 6 months ago

Old Chat of Mark Zuckerberg Calling Facebook Users 'Dumb' Resurfaces, Elon Musk Reacts

News 18  

Despite the impressive launch of Meta’s ‘Threads’ app, CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to face public scrutiny regarding privacy concerns that have long troubled users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Dumb f****.” Mark Zuckerberg talking about Facebook users pic.twitter.com/NhWDh7t50S— Andrew July 6, 2023 The tweet quickly went viral, attracting various reactions. !— Elon Musk July 6, 2023 “One of the many …

Musk vs Mark: As world awaits the cage fight, the build up explodes as Twitter Killer trends
1 year, 6 months ago

Musk vs Mark: As world awaits the cage fight, the build up explodes as Twitter Killer trends

Hindustan Times  

The beef between two of the biggest tech billionaires in the game, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, is for real and has been going on for quite some time now, but right now it all just seems personal. Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg American computer programmer who was the cofounder and CEO of Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, …

Column: Meta and Twitter show the drawbacks of giving self-satisfied billionaires too much power
2 years, 2 months ago

Column: Meta and Twitter show the drawbacks of giving self-satisfied billionaires too much power

LA Times  

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the new name for his company, formerly Facebook, in October 2021. Back in the prehistoric era — in 2012, when Facebook staged one of the most hyped initial public stock offerings of all time — I warned the company’s newly minted shareholders that they had become wedded to Mark Zuckerberg. The stock reached its all-time …

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivers harsh message to employees
2 years, 6 months ago

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivers harsh message to employees

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As tech stocks take a tumble amid a broader market downturn, Meta chief …

Sheryl Sandberg stepping down after 14 years as Facebook’s No. 2
2 years, 7 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg stepping down after 14 years as Facebook’s No. 2

LA Times  

2 at Facebook parent Meta Platforms, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down after 14 years. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she’ll soon step down as COO of Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc., leaving an enterprise almost unrecognizable from the one she joined. The new name was a nod to the company’s growing interest in the “metaverse” — a trendy …

Sheryl Sandberg quits Facebook owner Meta after 14 years
2 years, 7 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg quits Facebook owner Meta after 14 years

The Telegraph  

Sheryl Sandberg, the woman dubbed Mark Zuckerberg’s most valuable friend, has quit her second-in-command role at Facebook owner Meta after 14 years. In a separate post on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive and founder, called Ms Sandberg’s departure “the end of an era”. Mr Zuckerberg hired Ms Sandberg as the social media giant’s first chief operating officer in …

Mark Zuckerberg looks for this quality while hiring a candidate for Facebook
2 years, 9 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg looks for this quality while hiring a candidate for Facebook

India Today  

Who doesn’t want to work for top companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, among others, right? Meta head Mark Zuckerberg has successfully built the three biggest social media platforms in the world, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. In the latest podcast with MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman, the Meta head shared the qualities he looks for in a person who …

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen slams 'Meta' rebrand
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen slams 'Meta' rebrand

The Hindu  

Former Facebook employee turned whistleblower Frances Haugen on November 1 slammed Facebook's rebrand as she reiterated her accusation that the company prioritized expansion over people's safety. Haugen had leaked internal documents that sparked weeks of criticism of the social media giant before CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changing the name of Facebook's parent company to "Meta." Asked if Zuckerberg should step …

Meta and the Facebook Papers: Why Mark Zuckerberg has nothing to fear
3 years, 2 months ago

Meta and the Facebook Papers: Why Mark Zuckerberg has nothing to fear

Salon  

With great fanfare on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company's much-anticipated name change. A former Facebook employee named Frances Haugen has been releasing a steady stream of leaked documents showing that Facebook knew its social media networks were being used to spread misinformation, stoke often genocidal levels of conflict, and undermine people's mental health — but did little …

Former Zuckerberg advisor: Facebook’s problem is its business model
3 years, 2 months ago

Former Zuckerberg advisor: Facebook’s problem is its business model

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This interview has been editing for length and clarity. New York CNN Business — Calls for increased regulation of Facebook continue to grow louder after leaked internal documents became public and whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony showed that the social media platform has repeatedly failed to rein hate speech and misinformation. On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news …

Facebook Q3 Earnings: Mark Zuckerberg responds to massive document dump
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Q3 Earnings: Mark Zuckerberg responds to massive document dump

CNN  

New York CNN Business — CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook’s quarterly earnings call by addressing the latest wave of coverage based on a trove of leaked internal documents on Monday. Tens of thousands of pages of internal documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen informed the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series, and on Monday, a flood of additional news …

‘Not true’: Mark Zuckerberg responds to claims that Facebook prioritises profit
3 years, 3 months ago

‘Not true’: Mark Zuckerberg responds to claims that Facebook prioritises profit

Live Mint  

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg publicly addressed a recent series of negative stories about the company by saying that accusations about Facebook prioritizing profit over user safety are “just not true.” “It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. It came shortly after whistle-blower Frances Haugen, a former employee, testified in a Senate hearing about …

Rocked by longest Facebook outage and whistleblower revelations, Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours
3 years, 3 months ago

Rocked by longest Facebook outage and whistleblower revelations, Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours

Firstpost  

The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $121.6 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to number 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index A damning whistleblower account and outages that hit Facebook Inc’s flagship products such as WhatsApp and Instagram have led to a decline in Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth by more than $7 billion in a few …

Facebook tech chief Mike Schroepfer to step down
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook tech chief Mike Schroepfer to step down

The Hindu  

September 23, 2021 12:51 pm | Updated 12:51 pm IST Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is stepping down from the social media company, taking on a part-time role while longtime executive Andrew Bosworth will replace him next year. Bosworth, known as “Boz," is another longtime Facebook exec and a close friend of Zuckerberg's. “As our next CTO, Boz will …

Facebook profits top $10B as its CEO exalts the ‘metaverse’
3 years, 5 months ago

Facebook profits top $10B as its CEO exalts the ‘metaverse’

Associated Press  

Concerns about a revenue growth slowdown pushed Facebook’s shares lower in after-hours trading Wednesday, not long after the company reported that its second-quarter profits doubled thanks to a massive increase in advertising revenue. In a conference call with analysts, Zuckerberg called the metaverse the “next generation of the internet and next chapter for us as a company,” one that he …

How Apple screwed Facebook
3 years, 7 months ago

How Apple screwed Facebook

Wired  

It is not unusual for the bosses of Apple and Facebook to be at loggerheads with each other over privacy. Back in 2018 Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg accused his Apple counterpart Tim Cook of being “extremely glib” for making scathing remarks about Facebook’s involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Weeks later Apple introduced privacy controls that hampered Facebook’s ability …

Facebook’s oversight board: Watchdog or distraction?
3 years, 8 months ago

Facebook’s oversight board: Watchdog or distraction?

Associated Press  

Facebook’s oversight board, which on Wednesday upheld the company’s ban of former President Donald Trump, also had some harsh words for the company. Calling Facebook’s indefinite ban of Trump a “vague, standardless penalty,” the board accused Facebook -- its corporate sponsor -- of seeking to ”avoid its responsibilities” by asking its quasi-independent oversight group to resolve the issue. “They want …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indefinitely bans Trump from Facebook
4 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indefinitely bans Trump from Facebook

India Today  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that the company is extending the ban on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram indefinitely. Trump’s social media accounts for encouraging rioters who had marched into the US Capitol building when US Congress was certifying Joe Biden as the next US President. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.” Google-owned …

Mark Zuckerberg has another response to Bitcoin’s success
4 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg has another response to Bitcoin’s success

Live Mint  

Last year’s backlash against Facebook Inc.’s planned digital currency Libra would have been most chief executive officers’ worst nightmare. Given Zuckerberg’s tendency to issue half-hearted apologies before going back to breaking things, it’s not surprising that he’s gearing up for a second attempt to launch Libra next year. Facebook is even proposing that central banks one day use the Diem …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donates $100 million to help US election offices
4 years, 2 months ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donates $100 million to help US election offices

India Today  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will donate an additional $100 million to help local election offices prepare for November US presidential elections. This contribution, along with the previous one from Zuckerberg and Chan to fund the election infrastructure makes for a total contribution of $400 million. "Since our initial donation, there have been multiple lawsuits filed …

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Mark Zuckerberg, says problematic when Facebook employess on record abuse PM
4 years, 4 months ago

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Mark Zuckerberg, says problematic when Facebook employess on record abuse PM

India TV News  

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the "political predisposition" of the social media giant's India team and raised concerns over senior Facebook officials “on record abusing Prime Minister and senior cabinet ministers”. Hitting out at the Facebook India's top management, Prasad said he has been informed that in the run-up to 2019 Lok …

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook: ‘Companies aren’t bad just because they’re big’
4 years, 5 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook: ‘Companies aren’t bad just because they’re big’

The Telegraph  

Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will come out swinging against accusations of anti-competitive behaviour on Wednesday, telling US politicians that "companies aren't bad just because they are big". In prepared testimony, the 36-year-old founder will argue Facebook, whose total audience is bigger than Christianity and double the population of China, could still "cease to exist" if it does not "compete …

Facebook fires employee critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg for calling out colleague's inaction over Black Lives Matter
4 years, 6 months ago

Facebook fires employee critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg for calling out colleague's inaction over Black Lives Matter

ABC  

Facebook has fired an employee who criticised CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump. Key points: Brandon Dail said he stood by what he wrote Facebook confirmed Mr Dail's reasons for dismissal Alphabet's Google fired at least five workplace activists late last year, while Amazon dismissed critics of warehouse conditions during …

Column: Mark Zuckerberg just made the case for breaking up Facebook
4 years, 7 months ago

Column: Mark Zuckerberg just made the case for breaking up Facebook

LA Times  

The problem with giant corporations sometimes isn’t simply that they’re too big, but that their sense of their social impact is too small. A meeting he held with several civil rights leaders protesting the decision to leave up the Trump posts ended in disaster, when the leaders issued a statement calling Zuckerberg’s explanation “incomprehensible.”.while Twitter tagged a similar Trump tweet …

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg
4 years, 7 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Only in Mark Zuckerberg

Wired  

What does Mark Zuckerberg believe? Yet Zuckerberg allowed Facebook employees to help Trump use Facebook more effectively, certainly contributing to the electoral college win. Over the past two weeks these questions have taken on a new urgency as Facebook employees have for the first time publicly voiced anger and frustration with Zuckerberg’s decision to protect Trump’s calls for state violence …

After Facebook staff walkout, CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump posts
4 years, 7 months ago

After Facebook staff walkout, CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump posts

Firstpost  

Zuckerberg says that Facebook had conducted a thorough review and was right to leave the posts unchallenged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Tuesday that he stood by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump, refusing to give the ground a day after staff members staged a rare public protest. They complained the company …

Facebook Employees Take the Rare Step to Call Out Mark Zuckerberg
55 years ago

Facebook Employees Take the Rare Step to Call Out Mark Zuckerberg

Wired  

What happens when an immovable object meets a disgruntled workforce? CEO Mark Zuckerberg has consistently refused to budge from allowing politicians—most conspicuously, Donald J. Trump—to post content that would violate the company’s rules against harm and misinformation. Another Facebook exec, Ryan Freitas, director of News Feed product design, wrote, “Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible …

Facebook staffers walk out saying Trump's posts should be reined in like Twitter
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook staffers walk out saying Trump's posts should be reined in like Twitter

India Today  

Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trump's posts as strictly as the rival platform has done. Reuters saw dozens of online posts from employees critical of Zuckerberg's decision to leave Trump's most inflammatory verbiage unchallenged where Twitter had labeled it. …

Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump post
4 years, 7 months ago

Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump post

Al Jazeera  

Facebook CEO says Trump’s ‘deeply offensive’ remarks did not violate company policy against incitements to violence. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Tuesday he stood by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by United States President Donald Trump, refusing to give ground a day after staff members staged a rare public protest. Civil rights leaders who attended an …

Facebook Employees Revolt Over Zuckerberg's Hands-Off Approach To Trump
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook Employees Revolt Over Zuckerberg's Hands-Off Approach To Trump

NPR  

Facebook Employees Revolt Over Zuckerberg's Hands-Off Approach To Trump Updated at 10:52 p.m. In a post Friday, the Facebook CEO said he had "been struggling with how to respond" to Trump's posts. On Monday evening, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, held a Zoom video call with leaders of three civil rights groups that have criticized the company's …

Some Facebook employees rebel against boss Zuckerberg stance on Trump's Facebook post
4 years, 7 months ago

Some Facebook employees rebel against boss Zuckerberg stance on Trump's Facebook post

India Today  

Some senior Facebook employees have voiced their dissent with boss and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for not removing US President Donald Trump’s recent social media post which seemingly encourages violence. Trump, in his social media posts, wrote "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." Andrew Crow, Head of Design for Facebook’s Portal Product Line "Giving a platform to incite violence …

Mark Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter in Trump fight, says it's stronger on free speech than other tech firms
4 years, 7 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter in Trump fight, says it's stronger on free speech than other tech firms

Firstpost  

“We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this,” Mark Zuckerberg told Fox News. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies. Both sites take down content that violates their …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried about China’s influence on internet regulation
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried about China’s influence on internet regulation

Firstpost  

Facebook CEO said there is a model coming out of countries like China that have quite different values than Western countries. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has raised alarm over China’s influence on internet regulations. In a conversation with European Union official Thierry Breton, Zuckerberg said he was reportedly worried countries across the world would follow the Chinese model for regulating …

Facebook tells US govt it won't remove encryption
5 years ago

Facebook tells US govt it won't remove encryption

Live Mint  

SAN FRANCISCO :Facebook has clearly told US Attorney General William Barr that the social networking giant will neither remove encryption from its messaging apps nor will provide law enforcement agencies access to its encrypted services. Encrypted messaging is the leading form of online communication and the vast majority of the billions of online messages that are sent daily, including on …

Facebook revenues rise by 28 percent in Q3, monthly users rise to 2.45 billion
5 years, 2 months ago

Facebook revenues rise by 28 percent in Q3, monthly users rise to 2.45 billion

Firstpost  

Facebook has come under fire over its decision not to fact-check ads run by politicians on the platform. Facebook Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday and profit rose as growth in expenses slowed from a year earlier, assuaging investor fears of financial fallout from fierce scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers of the world’s largest social media company. Third-quarter revenue …

Zuckerberg defends Facebook’s currency plans before Congress
5 years, 2 months ago

Zuckerberg defends Facebook’s currency plans before Congress

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg endured hours of prickly questioning from lawmakers Wednesday as he defended the company’s new globally ambitious project to create a digital currency while also dealing with widening scrutiny from U.S. regulators. Representatives also grilled Zuckerberg on Facebook’s track record on civil rights, hate speech, privacy and misinformation — not surprising given the litany of …

Mark Zuckerberg tells Congress anti-trust ‘didn’t come up’ during Trump meeting
5 years, 2 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg tells Congress anti-trust ‘didn’t come up’ during Trump meeting

CNN  

Washington CNN — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reluctantly offered Congress a few details about his September meeting with President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers on Wednesday that antitrust did not come up during their conversation in the Oval Office. Asked during a House Financial Services Committee hearing whether antitrust investigations into Facebook came up in the West Wing, Zuckerberg said: “I …

Before testimony, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook damage control fails
5 years, 2 months ago

Before testimony, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook damage control fails

LA Times  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on yet another damage control tour in recent days, in advance of testimony before Congress on Wednesday. You’d think by now that Zuckerberg would have learned how to feign concern when asked about Facebook’s accountability in undermining democratic elections, giving voice to hate groups and disseminating an astonishing amount of fake news. Zuckerberg said …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends refusal to take down some content
5 years, 2 months ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends refusal to take down some content

Live Mint  

Washington: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday defended the social media platform's refusal to take down content it considers newsworthy "even if it goes against our standards." Taking note of mounting criticism of the market dominance of Facebook and other tech giants, Zuckerberg acknowledged the companies' centralized power but said it's also "decentralized by putting it directly into people's hands.. …

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook empowers a peoples’ ‘fifth estate’ to effect change
5 years, 2 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook empowers a peoples’ ‘fifth estate’ to effect change

LA Times  

Questions about how Facebook Inc. regulates speech are nothing new for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. He said Facebook, with its enormous size and scale, offers people a new kind of power, which he called “a fifth estate alongside the other power structures in our society.” In his speech, Zuckerberg said internet services like Facebook can still protect free expression while …

There Are at Least Five Reasons Why Mark Zuckerberg Would Have Tucker Carlson Over for Dinner
5 years, 2 months ago

There Are at Least Five Reasons Why Mark Zuckerberg Would Have Tucker Carlson Over for Dinner

Slate  

Most people who have a problem with Facebook—even prominent ones—do not get to meet with Mark Zuckerberg. On Monday, Politico reported that the Facebook CEO has been hosting a series of dinners with conservative journalists, right-wing celebrities, and at least one Republican lawmaker, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who grilled Zuckerberg about Facebook’s market dominance when he testified in a Senate hearing …

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify before US Congress over Libra
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify before US Congress over Libra

Live Mint  

San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the US House of Representatives on October 23 to discuss concerns over his ambitious digital currency 'Libra' that has run into rough weather. The Facebook CEO will be the sole witness at the hearing, which is entitled, "An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors". …

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