We keep hearing names. Mike Bloomberg may run. Andrew Cuomo has presidential aspirations. And Michael Avenatti? Jamie Dimon? My god. How bad could this possibly get for the Democratic Party? Very bad.
After years of dragging their feet, the last few months has seen Facebook crack down on content that they say violates their community standards. The site recently suspended conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and removed four of his pages. But the platform has done little to nothing to rein in what is said in private…
What makes someone a terrorist? No one knows. Our country, founded as it was on revolution, is a perfect example of the moral relativism of “terror.” To the British, American revolutionaries would probably qualify as terrorists. But in the U.S., we see these fighters as heroes, their adulation worthy of absurdly…
“Anti-Muslim groups are way worse, in every way, than what I would have guessed coming in,” Megan Squire, a researcher who just finished a study on anti-muslim Facebook groups, told Buzzfeed News. She found that the groups were filled with content that violates Facebook’s hate speech policy. Yet the groups, many of…
A new study out this month found the problem of untraceable dark money ads on Facebook is far worse than previously thought.
Today’s hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pretty poor, on the whole, so far—the average age of the senators questioning Zuckerberg appears to be around 140 and many of them seem not to understand the concepts underpinning the questions they’re asking—but our normal boy, Senator Ted Cruz, still managed…
In January, Facebook announced that it was changing its all-powerful algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family in order to bolster engagement among users. Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook’s News Feed, explained that this meant “we’ll show less public content, including videos and other posts from…
“I went in with very big-picture kinds of goals and went too far too fast,” Chris Hughes told The New York Times last week, unprompted. It was an explanation for how his failures at The New Republic magazine had inspired the “prosaic and incremental approach” touted in his new book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality…
On Tuesday, Facebook, a company that has recently pivoted from pandering to conservative propagandists to ham-fisted displays of civic engagement, announced it would be working with the New Mexico Attorney General to do.... something about the state’s devastating opioid problem.
Earlier today, Future President of what will presumably be the future Former United States Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook, that thing he invented, to discuss his personal challenge for 2018. Like most New Year’s resolutions, the majority of Zuckerberg’s goals consisted of shit he probably should have already been…
My morning routine isn’t what it used to be. The days of silently eating cottage cheese, awaiting a scalding shower to shock me into a state of semi-consciousness, are over.
As Facebook has slowly come clean about its distribution of Russian-financed political ads during last year’s presidential race, the tech giant has launched a major PR salvo to show how much it loves democracy. CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the ways the company will be a “force for good” in a video last month. Ads in…
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Antes de aceptar su tĂtulo honorario 12 años despuĂ©s de abandonar Harvard  para dedicarse a Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg alabĂł a un estudiante indocumentado que inspirĂł su trabajo.
Mark Zuckerberg returned to his old stomping grounds on Thursday to deliver a commencement address to Harvard University’s graduating seniors. There, the Facebook co-founder moved himself and a bunch of what appeared to be a group of frontier mayors and Monopoly Men to tears with a story about an undocumented…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is suing a group of families in Hawaii to compel them to sell their traditional rights to land he purchased in 2014.
Blame for president-elect Donald Trump's win has been going around: It's the media's fault! No, FBI director James Comey is to blame! If only the Democrats had run Bernie!
"The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference Thursday night. "There have been hoaxes on the internet, there were hoaxes before… We do our best to make it so that people can report that, and as I said before, we can…
SAN FRANCISCO—At a conference last night, Mark Zuckerberg fought back against allegations that misinformation on Facebook helped swing the election, and, in addition, said that Hillary Clinton ordered the assassination of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Pre-election, Silicon Valley was not for Donald Trump. Many of the industry's most well-known players saw him as a potential disaster, and tech workers gave 60 times more money to Clinton. The notable exception is very rich schmo Peter Thiel, who put more than a million dollars towards the president-elect's victory.
