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But Facebook’s ads are mostly about how it’s trying to avoid election manipulation. Again.
MJD tells Recode’s Kurt Wagner that the low success rate in tech investing scares him: “I grew up with no money, so it’s like, I got money, I’m gonna try to keep it as long as I can.”
Clegg is joining Facebook as global head of communications and public policy.
Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see.
Systrom has no idea what he wants to do next, but he knows he won’t just be sitting on a beach.
AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky says Facebook and other tech companies should make it easy for users to temporarily opt out of data collection.
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway mull the week in digital insecurity on the latest episode of Pivot.
Are you one of the 29 million people?
The FBI is investigating.
The social networking giant is on a hunt all over the globe for a new head of policy and communications.
As Instagram’s founders depart, execution can’t skip a beat.
Everything was on the table — and after Facebook’s wildest year yet, that’s a really big table.
The proposed legislation offers new rules for data portability, net neutrality and more that Democrats might push for if they recapture Congress.
“Here’s the part where I maybe start sounding like I’ve got a tinfoil hat,” he explains on the latest Recode Decode.
Facebook could improve video calls. The question is whether people will let it.
“He paid $20 million for a tweet,” Kara Swisher says on the latest episode of Pivot. “Who says Twitter can’t make money?”
“Winners Take All” author Anand Giridharadas says elites only help on their own terms — and never in any way that would endanger their own extreme wealth.
“The Big Disruption” scrutinizes Silicon Valley from the perspective of someone who has spent most of her career in the industry: “You can love something but also be critical of it,” Powell says.
As expected, Instagram’s VP of Product — who previously built Facebook’s news feed — was promoted to Head of Instagram.
We asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg that same question.
Another security blunder for Facebook — this time just six weeks before the U.S. midterm elections.
On the first episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway also discuss the Instagram co-founders’ dramatic exit and “tech bias.”
Rather than analyzing data that others have collected, Angwin says the new nonprofit will be collecting data sets about technology that don’t exist today.
Facebook’s David Marcus will have none of it.
The popular photo and video app and its social network parent have become more intertwined. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were not into it.
Systrom and Krieger have shaped virtually everything about Instagram’s culture and product for the past six years.
Everyone loves Stories. Everyone including Google.
Facebook is launching its dating service. Will it launch subscriptions, too?
Nicole Wong, the former deputy CTO of the United States, lays out what that might look like.
Levine is taking over all of Facebook’s global partnerships.
They’re well aware of its issues.
A capsule review of tech’s visit to Washington: The Senate seemed serious, the House did not, and Republicans aren’t done complaining about bias.
Almost half of 18- to 29-year-olds claim to have joined the #DeleteFacebook movement.
It’s going to be a long day for Jack Dorsey and Twitter at the Capitol tomorrow. Facebook should be okay.
Sleeping Giants founder Matt Rivitz tells Recode’s Kara Swisher that he wants to be “the source of some kind of conscience” for social media.
“I’m not saying that those companies are per se legal or every activity is legal. They could very well be violating the antitrust laws down the road if they take certain actions.”
Makan Delrahim tells Recode’s Kara Swisher that “these things are very fact-specific.”
The more we talk about “shadow banning,” the less we talk about voter suppression.
Another top staffer is leaving the social network after a tough year.