Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
5 years, 10 months ago

Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine

Wired  

For those of us who worry that Facebook may have serious boundary issues when it comes to the personal information of its users, Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments at Harvard should get the heart racing. Zuckerberg dropped by the university last month ostensibly as part of a year of conversations with experts about the role of technology in society, “the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.” His nearly two-hour interview with Harvard law school professor Jonathan Zittrain in front of Facebook cameras and a classroom of students centered on the company’s unprecedented position as a town square for perhaps 2 billion people. To hear the young CEO tell it, Facebook was taking shots from all sides—either it was indifferent to the ethnic hatred festering on its platforms or it was a heavy-handed censor deciding whether an idea was allowed to be expressed. “I would not want so many decisions about content to be concentrated with any individual.” Instead, Facebook will establish its own Supreme Court, he told Zittrain, an outside panel entrusted to settle thorny questions about what appears on the platform.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover will reshape the entire internet
Top News
1 week, 2 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s MAGA makeover will reshape the entire internet

CNN  

New York CNN — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making sweeping changes to the social internet, all in line with the desires of President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters. The recent elections “feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech,” Zuckerberg said in his announcement, justifying relaxed new content moderation rules on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Tuesday …

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago

NPR  

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

The “remarkable shift” in Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Meta.
55 years ago

The “remarkable shift” in Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Meta.

Slate  

In March, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a town hall meeting where employees could ask him about the future of the company. On Sunday’s episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Nix about Meta’s growing pains—and whether the company will be able to regain its footing amid layoffs, competition from TikTok, and a somewhat baffling bet on the Metaverse. …

Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with Joe Rogan was one of the most excruciating things I’ve ever seen
2 years, 4 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with Joe Rogan was one of the most excruciating things I’ve ever seen

The Independent  

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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  

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The Big Four of Tech
3 years, 1 month ago

The Big Four of Tech

The Hindu  

When Steve Jobs resigned as CEO in August 2011, Apple was weeks away from launching its new iPhone which would include the artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant software called Siri. Apple had concentrated its best manpower on a single product, developed in extreme secrecy, and “the phone’s mechanics and design reflected an obsessive focus on detail.” Also on display, observes Lashinsky, …

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 …

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ so ‘our software will be everywhere’
3 years, 5 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’ so ‘our software will be everywhere’

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. The metaverse, in Mr Zuckerberg’s vision, will be about “engag more naturally” with the behaviours we already …

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 …

Mark Zuckerberg says we ‘should be teleporting, not transporting ourselves’ as Facebook founder discusses the future of work
3 years, 11 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says we ‘should be teleporting, not transporting ourselves’ as Facebook founder discusses the future of work

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. Clubhouse, an invite-only platform where people join essentially large group calls, recently hosted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk …

The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin says he wants to write a dark sequel to acclaimed Mark Zuckerberg biopic
4 years, 3 months ago

The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin says he wants to write a dark sequel to acclaimed Mark Zuckerberg biopic

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Aaron Sorkin has said that he is considering writing a follow-up …

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 …

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 …

Facebook employees revolt over Zuckerberg’s stance on Trump
4 years, 7 months ago

Facebook employees revolt over Zuckerberg’s stance on Trump

LA Times  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote address at F8, Facebook’s developer conference in San Jose, in May 2018. Mark Zuckerberg is facing a backlash from within Facebook, with several senior employees publicly criticizing the chief executive for refusing to take action over controversial posts by President Trump, and other staff members staging “virtual walkouts.” As protests and rioting over …

Facebook is ‘the new cigarettes for our society’, says tech CEO
5 years ago

Facebook is ‘the new cigarettes for our society’, says tech CEO

The Independent  

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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 …

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 …

There Are at Least Five Reasons Why Mark Zuckerberg Would Have Tucker Carlson Over for Dinner
5 years, 3 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 CEO Zuckerberg to discuss ‘internet regulation’ with U.S. senators
5 years, 3 months ago

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to discuss ‘internet regulation’ with U.S. senators

The Hindu  

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is on Capitol Hill this week to meet with senators as the social media giant faces scrutiny from both the Federal Trade Commission and members of Congress, the company confirmed on Wednesday. Privacy issues It is Mr. Zuckerberg 's first trip to Washington since April 2018, when he fielded 10 hours of questions over two …

Mark Zuckerberg makes his case for not breaking up Facebook
5 years, 6 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg makes his case for not breaking up Facebook

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — Mark Zuckerberg can’t think of a single reason to break up Facebook, even as lawmakers call to dismantle or regulate major US tech platforms. “The question that I think we have to grapple with is that breaking up these companies wouldn’t make any of those problems better,” Zuckerberg said in a conversation with Harvard law …

Sheryl Sandberg reiterates her call to regulate Facebook
5 years, 6 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg reiterates her call to regulate Facebook

India Today  

Calls to break up big tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are intestifying in the US. Now, speaking to the media on the sidelines of a film festival, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has reiterated her initial thoughts - and that of the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - on need for the social media giant to be …

Facebook’s Zuckerberg is the focus of latest doctored video
5 years, 7 months ago

Facebook’s Zuckerberg is the focus of latest doctored video

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his one-man domination of the world. The somewhat crude video of the Facebook CEO, created as part of an art project and circulated …

F8 2019: Zuckerberg says future is private, hints Facebook experience set to change big time
5 years, 8 months ago

F8 2019: Zuckerberg says future is private, hints Facebook experience set to change big time

India Today  

"I believe the future is private," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in his opening note at Facebook's annual developers' conference - the F8 2019 - in San Jose, California on Tuesday. During his hour-long keynote, Zuckerberg highlighted how Facebook would design its infrastructure and resign its platform, including the Messenger, Instagram and the Facebook app, to focus on privacy and …

Facebook F8 2019: Zuckerberg to explain company's new 'privacy-focused' vision
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook F8 2019: Zuckerberg to explain company's new 'privacy-focused' vision

Firstpost  

It has set aside $3 billion to cover a possible fine from the FTC over privacy violations. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off Facebook’s annual F8 conference Tuesday with what are expected to be more details about his new “privacy-focused” vision for the social network. He’ll also likely do his best to bat away Facebook’s growing array of critics, emboldened …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leveraged user data as 'bargaining chip' against rivals
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leveraged user data as 'bargaining chip' against rivals

Firstpost  

Facebook rewarded companies that it favoured by giving them access to the data of its users. The documents obtained by NBC from a British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, include emails, web chats, presentations, spreadsheets, and meeting summaries which show how Facebook would reward favoured companies by giving them greater access to user data. According to the documents, Facebook gave Amazon …

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg calls for more outside regulation
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg calls for more outside regulation

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Saturday for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. But if we were starting from scratch, we wouldn’t ask companies to make these judgments alone.” More regulation over what constitutes …

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is changing, in future will focus on private and secure chats
5 years, 10 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is changing, in future will focus on private and secure chats

India Today  

Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday penned an essay talking about the biggest issue that Facebook is facing today - privacy. In his essay titled "A Privacy Focused Vision for Social Networking", the Facebook founder also talked about the steps that his company would be taking in the days to come for strengthening the scope of encryption and increasing privacy on the …

Facebook’s plan to put ‘privacy first’ could create new problems
5 years, 10 months ago

Facebook’s plan to put ‘privacy first’ could create new problems

CNN  

New York CNN Business — For years, Mark Zuckerberg preached the value of people sharing more and more information online, with the mission of building what he often called a “more open and connected world.” For years, Facebook profited from that activity by collecting data and using it to lure advertisers. And yet, to the extent Zuckerberg actually makes good …

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is 'innovator in privacy', unwittingly disses Portal
5 years, 10 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is 'innovator in privacy', unwittingly disses Portal

Firstpost  

As part of his 2019 resolution to hold discussions about tech and society, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain. And invited trouble at this discussion when he called Facebook the “innovator in privacy.” Zuckerberg says that ever since Facebook’s early days at Harvard, it has developed ‘cutting-edge’ private communication tools and that the company continues …

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is an innovator in privacy
5 years, 10 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is an innovator in privacy

India Today  

Past one year has been a tough one for Facebook. Despite being in the centre of privacy storm, social media giant's CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg believes that Facebook has been one of the leading innovators in privacy. Zuckerberg, in a discussion with the Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain, said that the social media giant's position as an innovator in …

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Mark Zuckerberg hits back at people who criticise his website
5 years, 11 months ago

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Mark Zuckerberg hits back at people who criticise his website

India Today  

Facebook is celebrating its 15th anniversary today. So, on its 15th anniversary the Facebook chairman, Mark Zuckerberg, took to the platform he built to share its thoughts on the social media company's spectacular success. "As networks of people replace traditional hierarchies and reshape many institutions in our society -- from government to business to media to communities and more -- …

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 resolution: To host public discussions on tech
6 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2019 resolution: To host public discussions on tech

Live Mint  

San Francisco: Facebook Inc. chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said his personal challenge for 2019 is to host regular public discussions about the future of technology in society. The chats will focus on “the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes and the anxieties" of how technology will shape human behaviour, Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “Every few weeks …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2019 challenge is to be a better engineer, read full text of his resolution
6 years ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2019 challenge is to be a better engineer, read full text of his resolution

India Today  

Facebook is going through a rough patch. So as he moves into 2019, he is setting up a challenge for himself: talk more about the future of technology and society, and learn more about how he as an engineer, who is only used to building new things, can also be an engineer who understands impact of what he is building. …

After fixing Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg wants to fix tech in 2019
6 years ago

After fixing Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg wants to fix tech in 2019

India Today  

Every year Mark Zuckerberg takes up a challenging task as his new year's resolution. The Facebook founder is back with his annual post about his resolution for the year and this year he wants to 'host a series of discussions about the future of technology' by the means of which he hopes to understand the 'opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, …

Mark Zuckerberg says 2018 has been challenging for Facebook, expects 2019 to be better
6 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg says 2018 has been challenging for Facebook, expects 2019 to be better

India Today  

In 2018 Facebook has been through rough waters and there's nothing secret about it. -- "For 2018, my personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing our community -- whether that's preventing election interference, stopping the spread of hate speech and misinformation, making sure people have control of their information, and ensuring our …

As Facebook’s crises mount, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground in exclusive CNN interview
6 years, 1 month ago

As Facebook’s crises mount, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground in exclusive CNN interview

CNN  

New York CNN Business — After spending much of this year apologizing for Facebook’s many missteps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defiantin an exclusive interview with CNN Business on Tuesday. “A lot of the criticism around the biggest issues has been fair, but I do think that if we are going to be real, there is this bigger picture as well, …

Mark Zuckerberg orders Facebook employees to give up iPhone and use Android, reason will surprise you
6 years, 2 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg orders Facebook employees to give up iPhone and use Android, reason will surprise you

India Today  

A vast majority of the Facebook staffers don't use Apple iPhones running on iOS. Then again, when Recode's Kara Swisher asked Cook what would he do if he was Mark Zuckerberg, Cook replied, "I wouldn't be in this situation." Notably, not only did Zuckerberg pass an order banning the iPhones from Facebook, but he also responded to Cook's comment saying …

Tech founders often fail as business leaders, but not Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. What is he doing right?
6 years, 2 months ago

Tech founders often fail as business leaders, but not Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. What is he doing right?

India Today  

Fourteen years after he started Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is more powerful than ever. But while the world talks of the riches that Facebook has brought him, or his product vision that remains unmatched, often it misses the fact that unlike many other tech founders Mark Zuckerberg has remained in control of the company he started. Unlike other tech founders, who …

The Central Question Behind Facebook: 'What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?'
6 years, 3 months ago

The Central Question Behind Facebook: 'What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?'

NPR  

The Central Question Behind Facebook: 'What Does Mark Zuckerberg Believe In?' Free speech issues and the Russian disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 election had already put Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, under scrutiny as the midterm elections approach. Sponsor Message Osnos notes that Facebook, which now has 2.2 billion monthly active users, is larger than any country in the …

How Facebook Has Shaped Democracy
6 years, 4 months ago

How Facebook Has Shaped Democracy

NPR  

How Facebook Has Shaped Democracy NPR's Audie Cornish talks to The New Yorker's Evan Osnos about his new profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. OSNOS: Facebook was fundamentally relieved when Mark Zuckerberg went in front of the Senate because there really weren't a whole lot of hard questions he couldn't answer. CORNISH: How does Mark Zuckerberg see Facebook's role when …

Facebook patents eye-tracking technology, but has denied using it at the moment
6 years, 7 months ago

Facebook patents eye-tracking technology, but has denied using it at the moment

Firstpost  

Facebook says that currently it has no plans of implementing the technology, but when it does it will keep user privacy in mind. Facebook is bullish on eye-tracking technology tools that will let the social media giant detect users’ eye movement and emotions but has denied using it at the moment, the media reported. In a 229-page document addressed to …

Zuckerberg's Composure Amid Congressional Scrutiny: A Glimpse into His Response
6 years, 9 months ago

Zuckerberg's Composure Amid Congressional Scrutiny: A Glimpse into His Response

Live Mint  

Mark Zuckerberg's composure and responses to congressional hearings have reassured investors despite facing criticism for his data practices. While some lawmakers expressed appreciation for his patient cooperation, others expressed more assertive views on expanded government regulation. Zuckerberg's performance boosted shares, with the stock gaining 1.3% to $167.11 at 2:58pm in New York Wednesday after rising 4.5% the day before.

Zuckerberg's Performance in Senate Testimony: Takeaways and Implications
6 years, 9 months ago

Zuckerberg's Performance in Senate Testimony: Takeaways and Implications

Live Mint  

Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees was marked by both challenges and moments of clarity. While he faced tough questions about Facebook's privacy policy, data collection practices, and the potential for misuse of its platform, he managed to defend his company's position and assure lawmakers that he is taking steps to address the issues raised. However, …

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