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Top Civil Rights Lawyers Warn Mark Zuckerberg of Potential Criminal Liability in Scathing Open Letter

In a letter aimed at gutting Facebook’s rationale for allowing misleading and dishonest political ads across its platform, a prominent civil rights organization on Tuesday issued a stern warning to Mark Zuckerberg, outlining a number of federal laws to which, the group claims, Facebook may theoretically be held to account. Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights…

Social Media Dell Cameron

Jack Dorsey Takes Obvious Opportunity to Backstab Facebook With Twitter Political Ad Ban

Twitter on Wednesday announced a blanket ban on all political and issue-based advertising across its site, with CEO Jack Dorsey stating in a series of tweets that the company had decided to do so because “paying for reach” forces “highly optimized and targeted political messages on people.” Dorsey added that political and issue ads present…

Tech News Tom McKay

Facebook’s Pretty Sure It Won’t Fuck Up the News This Time

On Friday, Facebook started tests of what seems like its umpteenth attempt at handling journalism on the platform—a dedicated Facebook News section for users that lives separately from the standard News Feed on its mobile app and licenses content from the outlets writing it. This is far from Facebook’s first foray into the news business.…

Social Media Tom McKay

This Fake Green New Deal Ad Perfectly Illustrates Facebook’s Bullshit Political Ad Policy [Updated]

Folks, I never thought I’d see the day any Republican, let alone Lindsey Graham, said they believed in the Green New Deal. But on Friday, I heard his voice utter those exact words in a Facebook ad. “Simply put, we believe in the Green New Deal,” Graham intoned as string music swelled. There’s just one…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Mark Zuckerberg to Throw Shit at Wall, See What Sticks

The guy who just last week tried to claim his data sieve social network could have prevented the Iraq War is at it again. And by “it” I mean talking out of his ass in public. “Libra will be a global payments system, fully backed by a reserve of cash and other highly liquid assets,”…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Facebook’s Business Falls Under the Microscope of 47 Attorneys General

Forty-seven state attorneys general have now joined a sweeping investigation into Facebook’s business practices aimed at determining whether the company has engaged in anti-competitive behavior, ignored privacy laws, or violated any other laws, according to the New York Attorney General’s office. In a statement on Tuesday, Letitia James, the Democratic attorney general of New York,…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron

Why Is Pete Buttigieg the Facebook Candidate?

Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign is Silicon Valley’s latest breakout startup, according to this news cycle’s various descriptions by entrepreneurs who gush about his “new life and new energy,” his “A-player” spirit, his stirring speaking skills, and his youth. And possibly also his Ivy League network and centrist turn which differentiates him from candidates like Elizabeth…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Zuckerberg: I Feel Responsible for the ‘Different Ways’ Facebook Was Used to Cause, Uh, ‘Effects’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing calls to break up the company on the campaign trail, mounting antitrust inquiries from federal and state authorities, and the looming prospect of 2020 disinformation campaigns that could again kick his company’s ass. So he’s emerged from his gilded panic room more regularly as of late, this time sitting…

Social Media Tom McKay

China Censorship, Facebook Headcanon, Pixel 4, and Apple Beats: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Another week in the bag, everybody. And we’ve been seeing plenty of sparks fly online between the umpteenth debate between the Democrats’ presidential hopefuls and reports of Joker-on-Joker beef between Jared Leto and Joaquin Phoenix (though is it still technically “beef” if only one of them is throwing a tantrum?). Though the real showdown I’m waiting for…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Facebook’s Top Priority is Totally Its Government-Ordered Privacy Program

I can’t put an image in a headline, so just visualize the little eyes emoji there at the end. Facebook’s primary focus at the moment is implementing an FTC-mandated privacy program, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Fox News interview Friday. If you’re rolling your eyes right now, you’re right to have a healthy bit…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Would Have Prevented the Iraq War

Addressing a group of rightfully bored-looking Georgetown students, one of whom was allegedly escorted out for failing to silence their phone, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his much-anticipated speaking engagement today primarily to try to rewrite the history of his data collection company. Zuckerberg framed Facebook’s failure to enter the Chinese market as an unwillingness…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Trump Campaign Running Facebook Ads with Racial Slur

President Donald Trump’s official Facebook page has been running a series of ads that feature an anti-Native American slur, according to the social media company’s archive of political ads. Trump can be heard referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren by the name “Pocahontas” in the ad, which started running on October 11. President Trump has repeatedly…

Social Media Matt Novak

Warren’s New Facebook Ads Make False Claims—And That’s The Whole Damn Point

President Donald Trump’s re-election bid just got a stamp of approval from Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Except, not really. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s team intentionally put this false claim in a series of campaign ads on Facebook this week to draw attention to the platform’s controversial ad policy, one which has allowed similarly defamatory…

Politics Alyse Stanley

Google, Facebook, and Twitter Tell Biden Campaign They Won’t Remove Defamatory Trump Ad

Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent requests to Google, Facebook, and Twitter this week asking the companies to remove ads produced by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, arguing that the ads make false allegations. All three companies denied the request, explaining that the ads don’t violate their policies—but Facebook’s response was particularly confounding. The…

Social Media Jennings Brown

Senators Warn Visa, Mastercard to Think Twice About Joining Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Scheme

As anxieties mount over Facebook’s plan to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra, Capitol Hill lawmakers are facing increasing pressure to intercede. This week, that intervention has taken the form of ominous letters by Democratic members of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, who warn payment service companies to “expect a high level of scrutiny” if they…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron

Senator Wyden Warns Facebook’s Targeted Ads a ‘Sophisticated’ Threat to U.S. Elections

The U.S. Senate’s top privacy hawk is once again calling on Facebook to voluntarily suspend the use of micro-targeting to push political and issue-based advertisements, warning that foreign governments could take advantage of the tool to influence American elections. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, previously called on Facebook and Google to suspend micro-targeting for…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Know If Facebook Changed Ad Policies to Appease Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to know what President Donald Trump and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about during their Oval Office meeting last month. Warren, who’s leading the Democratic race along with Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, even suggested in a series of tweets Monday night that Facebook may have changed one of…

Social Media Matt Novak

Zuckerberg Livestreams Facebook’s Internal Q&A in Response to Audio Leaks

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the unprecedented call to publically livestream the company’s weekly Q&A session with employees Thursday after audio recordings from similar meetings in July were leaked and published earlier this week. Around 30,000 users tuned as Zuckerberg referred to this “pretty disappointing” leak in his opening remarks. In the recordings published by…

Social Media Alyse Stanley

Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook’s Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech

Mark Zuckerberg is fully prepared to sue the federal government if someone like Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tries to break up Facebook into smaller companies, according to audio recordings obtained by the Verge. Warren has made breaking up Big Tech a signature promise of her presidential campaign. The audio recordings, which were…

Social Media Matt Novak

Worse Than Previously Reported: The Facebook Story

The most powerful tool in Facebook’s considerable arsenal isn’t its incalculable trove of user data or yearly revenue that exceeds the GDP of more than a few sovereign nations—it’s the platform’s ability to spread out any PR disaster over months or years so that all but the most dogged beat reporters stop giving a shit…

Social Media Avery Ellis

Top Civil Rights Lawyers Warn Mark Zuckerberg of Potential Criminal Liability in Scathing Open Letter

Jack Dorsey Takes Obvious Opportunity to Backstab Facebook With Twitter Political Ad Ban

Facebook’s Pretty Sure It Won’t Fuck Up the News This Time

This Fake Green New Deal Ad Perfectly Illustrates Facebook’s Bullshit Political Ad Policy [Updated]

Mark Zuckerberg to Throw Shit at Wall, See What Sticks

Facebook’s Business Falls Under the Microscope of 47 Attorneys General

Why Is Pete Buttigieg the Facebook Candidate?

Zuckerberg: I Feel Responsible for the ‘Different Ways’ Facebook Was Used to Cause, Uh, ‘Effects’

China Censorship, Facebook Headcanon, Pixel 4, and Apple Beats: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Facebook’s Top Priority is Totally Its Government-Ordered Privacy Program

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Would Have Prevented the Iraq War

Trump Campaign Running Facebook Ads with Racial Slur

Warren’s New Facebook Ads Make False Claims—And That’s The Whole Damn Point

Google, Facebook, and Twitter Tell Biden Campaign They Won’t Remove Defamatory Trump Ad

Senators Warn Visa, Mastercard to Think Twice About Joining Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Scheme

Senator Wyden Warns Facebook’s Targeted Ads a ‘Sophisticated’ Threat to U.S. Elections

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Know If Facebook Changed Ad Policies to Appease Trump

Zuckerberg Livestreams Facebook’s Internal Q&A in Response to Audio Leaks

Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook’s Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech

Worse Than Previously Reported: The Facebook Story

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