Independent Media Slams Facebook’s Plan to Act as Gatekeeper of ‘Trustworthy’ News

Progressive and independent journalists are raising grave concerns this week about Facebook’s plan to fashion itself as an arbiter of what news outlets should be deemed “trustworthy.”

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

Progressive and independent journalists are raising grave concerns this week about Facebook's plan to fashion itself as an arbiter of what news outlets should be deemed "trustworthy"—arguing that the social media giant's new proposal will punish non-corporate news sources and journalists offering left-leaning news analysis that it finds to be

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Zuckerberg Pledges To Fix Facebook’s Privacy Problems—No One Trusts Him

Dozens of senators told the Facebook CEO that the social media giant was failing Americans.

Steven Rosenfeld
By Steven Rosenfeld
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before nearly half the Senate Tuesday may mark a historic turning point for Silicon Valley. Members of both parties expressed substantive concerns about how high-tech’s surveillance economy preys on privacy and elevates propaganda—followed by wide skepticism that Facebook and the tech sector can be

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Mark Zuckerberg Makes a Sudden 180 on Privacy—Is It for Real?

Civil liberties and human rights groups want Big Data to sign security pledge to protect user privacy.

Steven Rosenfeld
By Steven Rosenfeld
Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The backlash against high-tech’s privacy-invading business model is growing—but one hard-hit Silicon Valley institution, Facebook, announced a potentially far-reaching reform late on Wednesday. Over a 24-hour period, it appears that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg went from endorsing, “in spirit,” soon-to-take-effect European Union privacy rules,

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Facebook Adding 3,000 Workers To Monitor Crime And Suicide

In addition to violence, the crackdown also targets “hate speech and child exploitation.”

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

Facebook's latest response to the public outcry that resulted from the recent live streaming of a murder on the social network, was announced moments ago when on his personal blog, Mark Zuckerberg announced that over the next year, Facebook "will be adding 3,000 people -- on top of the 4,500 we have today -- to review the millions of reports we get

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SpaceX Explosion Slows Facebook & Israeli Efforts To Control Online Content

In their ‘space race’ to expand internet access to remote, impoverished areas of the world, Facebook and Google are actually vying for control o fthe online experiences of millions of people.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

AUSTIN, Texas --- When a rocket operated by space startup SpaceX burned up on the launch pad, it was a setback to the prospects of commercial space travel, as well as efforts by Facebook to control the online experiences of millions of rural internet users. Facebook’s project, Internet.org, is described by founder Mark Zuckerberg in charitable

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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Believe India Isn’t Grateful For Facebook’s Free Internet

“Who could possibly be against this?” he asks passive-aggressively. “Surprisingly, over the last year there’s been a big debate about this in India.”

Quartz India
By Quartz India
Indians use mobile phone as they sit at a market area in New Delhi, India ,Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)

All Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to do is make the world a better place for his new daughter. While he’s technically on paternity leave, he couldn’t sit idly by as India attempts to halt Internet.org, Facebook’s initiative to provide free but limited internet to the developing world. Last week, the Times of India reported that the

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