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Steven Bannon Targeted ‘Incels’ To Secure Donald Trump’s Election, Says Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

Steven Bannon Targeted ‘Incels’ To Secure Donald Trump’s Election, Says Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

Before Steve Bannon was a chief strategist in Donald Trump’s White House, he was the executive chairman of Breitbart News. He also served on the board of Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that was largely owned by the Mercer family, who were reportedly at one point investing in Breitbart. Breitbart provided positive coverage of […]

5y ago

Mark Zuckerberg Could Have Faced Jail Time Under New Law Proposed By Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator

Mark Zuckerberg Could Have Faced Jail Time Under New Law Proposed By Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would likely be behind bars if a law proposed by Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden had been in place during the company’s highly-publicized Cambridge Analytica scandal last year, which revealed that millions of Facebook users’ data had been used by a private company without users’ permission. According to a report Thursday from […]

5y ago

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Thinks Facebook Users Should Delete Their Accounts

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Thinks Facebook Users Should Delete Their Accounts

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, thinks Facebook users should delete their accounts on the social media website over concerns that Facebook does not value its users’ privacy, The Hill reported. Wozniak’s comments were made June 28 in a video posted to TMZ last week while he was at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. […]

5y ago

Facebook Under New Criminal Investigation For Data Sharing With Tech Companies

Facebook Under New Criminal Investigation For Data Sharing With Tech Companies

In the wake of Facebook’s platform-wide outage on Wednesday that affected all of its 2.3 billion monthly users, there was more bad news on the horizon for the social media giant. The New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation of the company’s business practices, focusing particularly on data-sharing deals […]

5y ago

NAACP Calls For Week-Long Facebook Boycott After Release Of Russia Report

NAACP Calls For Week-Long Facebook Boycott After Release Of Russia Report

The NAACP is calling for a week-long boycott of Facebook and Instagram (which the company owns) following a recent report detailing how Russians sought to dilute and confuse African-American voters using the social media site. The organization, which promotes “equality of rights of all persons” according to its website, made the call to action on […]

6y ago

Facebook Forced To Turn Over Internal Documents In Lawsuit Claiming Company Misused Data

Facebook Forced To Turn Over Internal Documents In Lawsuit Claiming Company Misused Data

The last two years have brought to light the many ways in which Facebook, one of the biggest tech giants of the 21st century, misused their users’ data and actively spread misinformation despite not being in the dark about it. Earlier this month, a bombshell report in the New York Times showed how founder and […]

6y ago

Senate Investigates Cambridge Analytica While Mulling Social Media Regulations

Senate Investigates Cambridge Analytica While Mulling Social Media Regulations

Cambridge Analytica is back in the news. And that means Facebook and social media, in general, are the subjects of close scrutiny. As much as Mark Zuckerberg would like to be done apologizing for the Cambridge Analytica kerfuffle, it is not going away any time soon. In fact, in their piece called “Should social media […]

6y ago

Facebook Hack Made Private Messages For Sale, Possibly Including Yours

Facebook Hack Made Private Messages For Sale, Possibly Including Yours

In the latest news that doesn’t sound a lot like news, Facebook has been hacked and your private messages have been exposed. Adding insult to injury, your private messages are being sold on the black market for 10¢ per account. The Verge offers the following details. “The breach was first discovered in September after one […]

6y ago

Facebook Fined $645,000 By UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal, 10 Minutes Worth Of Profits

Facebook Fined $645,000 By UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal, 10 Minutes Worth Of Profits

Social media giant Facebook has been fined $645,000, a total which the company will make back in just about nine minutes, as estimated by Variety, by the United Kingdom over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to Gizmodo. The fine is the most Facebook can legally be fined for the offense. The fine comes after it […]

6y ago

It Now Takes 30 Days To Delete Your Facebook Account

It Now Takes 30 Days To Delete Your Facebook Account

Facebook has made it more difficult for its users to cut off their engagement with the social networking site. The social media giant recently made a change on how long it will take to delete a Facebook account. It previously took 14 days to delete an account, but this has increased to 30 days. The […]

6y ago

Dozens Of Facebook Employees Accuse The Company Of Intolerant Culture

Dozens Of Facebook Employees Accuse The Company Of Intolerant Culture

A post titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” was shared on an internal message board at Facebook’s headquarters. According to the New York Times, more than 100 employees have joined the originator of the message, Brian Amerige, in an effort to get the social media giant to be more tolerant of their employees’ […]

6y ago

Facebook Applies For A Patent That Ominously Allows The Company To Record Audio On Your Mobile Phone

Facebook Applies For A Patent That Ominously Allows The Company To Record Audio On Your Mobile Phone

If you thought that sinister happenings were a thing of the past now at Facebook with the whole Cambridge Analytica debacle behind them, you may want to think again, especially as the company now has a published application for a shiny new patent that would allow them to both monitor and record “ambient audio” through […]

6y ago

Trump’s Campaign For 2020 Election Working With Company Run By Former Cambridge Analytica Officials

Trump’s Campaign For 2020 Election Working With Company Run By Former Cambridge Analytica Officials

Data Proporia, a company run by former Cambridge Analytica officials, has been working for President Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, the Associated Press reports. Headed by Matt Oczkowski, the former Head of Product at Cambridge Analytica, Data Proporia employs at least three other Cambridge Analytica-affiliated individuals. Much like Oczkowski’s previous company, Data Proporia specializes in voter […]

6y ago

Cambridge Analytica Employees To Lose Their Jobs

Cambridge Analytica Employees To Lose Their Jobs

Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that came under fire for harvesting data of millions of Facebook users to allegedly influence the 2016 election, is shutting down. According to a documentation reviewed by Gizmodo, Cambridge Analytica employees were directed to return their keycards. The decision to shut down the parent company, SCL Group, was announced […]

6y ago

Cambridge Analytica Suddenly Closing Down U.S. Offices, Reports ‘The Wall Street Journal’

Cambridge Analytica Suddenly Closing Down U.S. Offices, Reports ‘The Wall Street Journal’

Cambridge Analytica, the embattled British data firm at the center of a privacy scandal, suddenly shut down all of its U.S. offices on Wednesday, Gizmodo is reporting. The news was announced in a Wednesday conference call with Julian Wheatland, who had been scheduled to become the company’s new CEO. Following the conference call, workers in […]

6y ago

Facebook Dating App: F8 Conference Offers Insight Into Becoming More Than ‘Friends’ On Platform

Facebook Dating App: F8 Conference Offers Insight Into Becoming More Than ‘Friends’ On Platform

Facebook will soon enter the world of online dating with a dating app that will (ideally) match single users to other swingin’ singles they aren’t already friends with, CNET is reporting. The announcement was made by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s more-or-less annual F8 event. The largest social media platform will soon join […]

6y ago

Facebook Lobbying European Governments At Record-Setting Pace

Facebook Lobbying European Governments At Record-Setting Pace

In late March 2018, according to Bloomberg, Facebook went on a hiring spree. The social media platform was looking to hire at least 11 Washington lobbyists. According to European transparency filings published this week, Facebook is doing the same in Europe. In fact, amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Zuckeberg spent a record amount of money […]

6y ago

Survey: Nine Percent Of Americans Deleted Their Facebook Accounts Following The Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Survey: Nine Percent Of Americans Deleted Their Facebook Accounts Following The Cambridge Analytica Scandal

“Facebook will be fine,” Recode journalists wrote, paraphrasing what Mark Zuckerberg had said during a conference call with reporters on April 4. “I don’t think there’s been any meaningful impact that we’ve observed,” Facebook co-founder and CEO said. This does not seem to be the case. Even before the Cambridge Analytica scandal hit the headlines, […]

6y ago

Facebook Tweaks Its Algorithm To Prevent Repeat Of 2016 Election

Facebook Tweaks Its Algorithm To Prevent Repeat Of 2016 Election

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Facebook. Amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company’s stocks plummeted after it was reported that a massive privacy breach occurred. More than 50 million users’ data was compromised and the stolen information was reportedly used to manipulate the 2016 U.S election. Facebook now has seen the error […]

6y ago

EU Says Facebook Confirmed Data Of Europeans Was Improperly Shared

EU Says Facebook Confirmed Data Of Europeans Was Improperly Shared

Facebook has gone through scrutiny after the revelations made about the data harvested by a data firm. On Friday, the social network confirmed data belonging to 2.7 million EU citizens was utilized by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. According to Reuters, the unauthorized use of data from citizens of Europe was confirmed by an EU executive. […]

6y ago

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