“Facebook is trying to mend its reputation in the wake of whisleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony,” reports Engadget, “and that includes promises of features lessening the potential harm for teens.”
CNN and Reuters report that Facebook Global Affairs…
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about how YouTube has managed to skate along while Facebook has gotten pummeled over platform responsibility concerns. This week, we’re looking at another slippery slope Apple is dancing on the edge of. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can […]
“Facebook’s efforts to undermine the testimony of whistleblower Frances Haugen began before she even left the Senate Commerce Committee hearing room Tuesday,” reports Protocol.com:
“Just pointing out the fact that @FrancesHaugen did not work on child s…
Facebook executive wouldn’t say if he believed platform bore responsibility for amplifying baseless claims of stolen electionFrances Haugen: Facebook whistleblower – and modern hero?The Facebook executive Nick Clegg took a damage-limitation tour of US …
The Observer’s investigations into Facebook in 2018 exposed a toxic culture. But still the business thrived. That might be about to changeA whistleblower standing before Congress. A global scandal involving Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg missing in action a…
These unaccountable bodies hold increasing sway over US government. Their abuses of power affect us allThe week’s news has been dominated by the supreme court, whose term began on Monday; the Federal Reserve, and whether it will start responding to inf…
Xi Jinping has grasped a fundamental truth in his quest to win the technology race – that internet companies are all ultimately disposableThis is story of two parallel universes. Over in the western one, neoliberal capitalism rules. In the other – the …
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa says social media firm is threat to democracy and failing to halt spread of misinformationThe campaigning Philippines journalist Maria Ressa, who was last week awarded the Nobel peace prize, has launched a stinging at…
Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policiesWhen Frances Haugen revealed she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall St…
Just days after Twitch suffered a giant security breach leaking over 125GB of data, the face of Amazon founder and chairman, Jeff Bezos, was seen trolling several of the streaming platform’s game directory pages. How it got there, or why, remains a mys…
