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O’Connor thinks we’ll get a federal privacy bill this year. But she’s more concerned about the future of free speech on the internet.
McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he’s speaking out against the social giant.
Facebook is restructuring its “youth team,” shutting down its new teen meme app LOL, and doubling down on Messenger Kids.
If Facebook wants to keep operating in Germany, it has to make some changes, regulators say.
After a bruising year for the social media giant, longtime communications head Caryn Marooney is helping search for her replacement.
Facebook banned a number of Jones’s Pages in August. Now it’s citing a new policy for banning even more.
From dorm room to global dominance, Facebook’s path to 2.3 billion users.
The company’s planned merger of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger into one system should alarm regulators, NYU’s Scott Galloway says.
The social media giant said it found 783 pages tied to inauthentic behavior from Iran.
Abramson’s new book Merchants of Truth profiles the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vice, and BuzzFeed.
After two years of dealing with Russia and fake news and privacy debacles, the Facebook CEO seems ready to change the subject.
Apple moved fast and broke Facebook.
Facebook will stop its “market research” program that was paying users in exchange for their mobile data.
We hope analysts will ask about it on Facebook’s Q4 earnings call.
Facebook is preparing for important international elections this year in Europe, India, and Israel.
It sure feels like regulation is coming for Facebook.
Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss Tesla on the latest Pivot, plus Tucker Carlson, Fyre Festival and the MAGA teens from Covington Catholic.
What if Facebook and Twitter were less viral?
Fried says tech startups are addicted to raising and spending money, and the VC funding cycle is to blame.
The fine is symbolic and it won’t leave much of a mark.
The EFF and McSweeney’s teamed up last year to produce a special edition of the quarterly magazine about the “end of trust.”
Yes, the NYT has become more critical of Facebook. With good reason.
On the latest episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss the Gillette ad and more.
“I want to tell a reader something they don’t know yet ... I want to make them feel smart when they get to work and feel like they’re ready to do their jobs.”
The internet giants make billions from ads. They want news publishers to sell subscriptions instead.
CNN.com Editor in Chief Meredith Artley says slogans like “facts first” aren’t enough.
On Pivot, NYU’s Scott Galloway talks with his colleague, the co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind.
Top ad buyers say increased spending on Amazon is mostly coming from other digital platforms.
Even if, in private, they might really want to.
Zuckerberg’s annual New Year’s resolution is to talk more about the future of technology.
Rabois talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher about startups, innovation, Facebook, President Trump, and more on a recent Recode Decode.
Vogel explains how he turned the ’90s internet juggernaut About.com into a modern web publisher.
Eventually, Zuckerberg will have to choose between controlling Facebook and funding his philanthropic efforts.
Longreads, analysis and explanations on what mattered in tech this year.
Could having fewer friends fix Facebook?
CEO Alan Schaaf explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
Mark Zuckerberg’s idealistic vision for Facebook has come back to haunt the company.
The accounts were sharing “anti-Rohingya messages” — the same kind of messages that have played into a broader genocide in Myanmar.
Fewer people saw Russian content on Instagram than on Facebook, but they interacted with it a lot more.
“It’s taking longer than we initially had thought.”