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Facebook prefers to slow the spread of conspiracy theories. That’s better than outright banning them, said the social media kingpin.
No, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t plan to fire himself.
Zuckerberg talks about everything from China to Infowars to whether he should be fired over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Instagram account has made its name by curating sports content you won’t see elsewhere.
Even as the social media giant tries to not become the arbiter of what’s news — and what’s “trash.”
His philanthropy funds veterans, women, voter protection and trustworthy journalism.
Josh Ginsberg, the CEO of media intelligence company Zignal Labs, says his company has been seeing “massive amounts of bot activity” lately.
Match owns several of the world’s biggest dating sites and apps — including Tinder, Match.com and OKCupid — but now has to think of Facebook as a competitor.
Also, why the “Center for Humane Technology” is not an oxymoron.
Podcast producer Eric Johnson referees.
The Willners raised more than $20 million on Facebook to help families forcibly separated at the Mexico-U.S. border.
“The worst-case scenario for us is that Silicon Valley gets so far behind on these issues that we just can’t be trusted as an industry.”
Data for Democracy’s Renée DiResta talks about the magnitude of the disinformation problem — and what can be done about it — on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Early Amazon employee Eugene Wei breaks down his theory of “invisible asymptotes” on the latest Recode Media podcast.
The bug affected 800,000 people and could have had serious safety implications.