If there’s one thing that Facebook wants everyone to know it’s taking seriously, it’s the topic of ethics. The general idea of an ethical approach to everything it does — its innovations, initiatives, and new products — is executed with and undercurrent of ethics, user control, and privacy. That’s whatContinue Reading
We kind of saw this coming, did we not? In Facebook’s most primitive days — if you can remember a time when it was restricted to college students, there was no News Feed, and status updates forced the inclusion of the word “is” — there was also the “Poke” feature.Continue Reading
Facebook’s data privacy scandal has dominated the news these past few months. Today, the company is reporting something it’s likely more excited about. On today’s Q1 earnings call, the Silicon Valley giant reported strong numbers for Q1 2018, with a total revenue of $11.97 billion and 1.45 billion daily activeContinue Reading
Facebook has published its internal enforcement guidelines. These guidelines — or community standards, as they’re also known — are designed to help human moderators decide what content should (not) be allowed on Facebook. Now, the social network wants the public to know how such decisions are made. “We decided to publishContinue Reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before U.S. lawmakers earlier this month seems to have done little to restore trust in the company. According to a HubSpot survey of 300 U.S. internet users, only 12% of people trust Facebook more than they did before Zuckerberg’s congressional hearings. In fact, the results indicateContinue Reading
At 1:00 AM Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, Facebook published an announcement outlining some of the ways it plans to advance toward the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force next month. Last week, during Congressional hearings with the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, lawmakers asked about Facebook’s complianceContinue Reading
In the midst and aftermath of last week’s Congressional hearings with Mark Zuckerberg, people have been questioning the preparedness of those involved. Was Mark Zuckerberg well-equipped to answer lawmaker questions? And were Senators and Representatives alike prepared to ask the right ones? One thing is for sure: There were severalContinue Reading
Having grown up in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, I can say with confidence that April is one of the months with which I most fondly remember the region. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom. And when I was a wee lass, before the Washington Nationals came to fruition,Continue Reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared this afternoon before a joint hearing held by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees. The hearing, officially titled “Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Use and Abuse of Data,” was created largely in response to March revelations that voter profiling firm CambridgeContinue Reading
Today was day two on Capitol Hill for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who faced tougher questions from Representatives on topics that weren’t covered in yesterday’s Senate hearing. The hearing, titled “Facebook: Transparency and Use of Consumer Data,” saw different issues broached by lawmakers that, much of the time, specifically reflectedContinue Reading
It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg has landed in Washington. As the Facebook CEO prepares to face back-to-back Congressional hearings this week, more information continues to flow from the company — from admitting guilt, to ongoing plans for how Facebook will better maintain user privacy. Zuckerberg’s appearance before lawmakers comes after revelationsContinue Reading
Within the past several months, before news first broke of voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtaining and using personal user data, Facebook said it would be making a large degree of changes as to how it handles advertisements. Those promises came when it was first revealed in 2017 thatContinue Reading
Update on April 4, 2018 at 2:30 PM EST: Facebook has issued a statement indicating that as many as 87 million people’s data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. In that same announcement, the company has outlined a series of ways in plans to the way data can be accessedContinue Reading
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee confirmed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will indeed testify in front of the congressional committee on April 11. His testimony is rooted in the ongoing controversy over Facebook’s handling of its users’ data, which became the subject of global news after it wasContinue Reading
