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The tech responsibility conversation heads to late-night cable.
It’s the second big-deal Facebook departure this summer.
Jones and his conspiracy-minded site Infowars have long since “blown past the bounds of common decency,” Wyden says.
Facebook will have to play constant defense, at least through November.
Digiday Editor in Chief Brian Morrissey says publishers were naïve if they didn’t think Facebook would eventually put its own interests above theirs.
News cycles come and go, but data is forever.
Can it become Facebook’s next big business?
In media, distribution is king.
Journalist James Crabtree came on Recode Decode to talk about his new book, “The Billionaire Raj.”
Recode Decode guest Adam Fisher’s new oral history is called “Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley.”
It’s the end of an era!
Zignal Labs CEO Josh Ginsberg says consumers and companies need to know what’s bot-generated and what’s not so they can make informed decisions about things like elections.
It’s part of the “time well spent” movement.
Facebook says it doesn’t know who is behind the campaigns, but Russia seems like a good guess.
The worst kind of fame, he says on Recode Media, is the kind that makes everyone ask, “Where do I know you from?”
We know it’s vexing, but we’ll do our best to explain.
The company’s $120 billion market value loss reverberated throughout the industry.
“You’re not doing anything to free those who are more trapped. You’re only enslaving them more by entrenching the system.”
The email startup is joining Workplace, the social network’s enterprise offering.
Facebook added 22 million new daily users last quarter, its smallest quarterly jump since at least 2011.
General Counsel Colin Stretch is leaving at the end of the year.
The social network’s last 18 months have been a waking nightmare. Wall Street doesn’t care.
Northeastern University researchers Dave Choffnes and Christo Wilson (mostly) debunk the internet’s favorite conspiracy theory on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information.
The Facebook founder has attracted controversy for how the social network deals with content that is offensive to many, such as Holocaust denying.
“And they do not share the values that we have.”
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.