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“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.
The women who run Nat Geo’s magazine, digital team and TV networks talk with Kara Swisher on the latest Recode Decode.
Advertisers will need to apply, but ICO ads are still banned.
Snapchat isn’t far behind.
Charlotte and Dave Willner were trying to raise $1,500 on Facebook to help one immigrant parent. So far, they’ve raised $20 million (and counting).
The craziest thing I saw at Cannes was restraint.
Fog Creek Software CEO Anil Dash offers a new way of thinking about things on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Recorded onsite in Rancho Palos Verdes, host Kara Swisher asks what they thought of the Code Conference speakers.
Instagram doesn’t have a business for IGTV, but it’ll need to make money quickly.
He’s even wearing a tie.
Peters, the author of the seminal business book “In Search of Excellence,” says, “I weep for Santa Clara County.”
Plus Messenger’s autoplay video ads, Pinterest’s shopping ambitions and more news from Cannes Lions.
Dan Pfeiffer, the former White House communications director under President Obama, is the author of a new book, “Yes, We (Still) Can.”
The big question: Do users want to see video ads next to their private messages?
“I think [young] people are waking up to saying, ‘Okay, we need to have some rules in this new world.’ And then they look to the Congress and they said, ‘Wow, those are the folks who are going to be writing these rules?’”
People are going to pirate World Cup highlights. What can social media companies do to stop them?
The longtime exec has been criticized recently for the social networking giant’s rocky responses to a series of controversies.
Snap is launching APIs, but won’t share much user data with developers.
When you run a startup, “it feels like everything is about to break,” co-founder Lieber says.
On Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings: “I thought, ‘Oh God, they’re going to leap to it.’ Then I was saying, ‘Oh my God. This is an embarrassment.’”
Recode’s Kara Swisher, Peter Kafka and Dan Frommer interview executives from Facebook, Snapchat, Uber, Airbnb and Spotify.
A software bug messed with privacy settings for 14 million users, so here’s what you need to know.
A new software bug is Facebook’s latest self-inflicted privacy headache.
“To this day, we still don’t actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.”
And now we’re seeing why that was a problem.
Instant Articles and live videos didn’t stick. What about made-for-Facebook news shows?
Apple wants to stop tech companies — like Facebook — from collecting user browsing data without their permission.
Instagram gave Facebook unfair reach, Thompson argues.
The company has been getting complaints from users who miss the old, reverse-chronological timeline.
Trending was a PR headache, too.
Who’s growing up — and who’s lagging behind — was a recurring question this week at the Code Conference.
Did the Trump campaign have suspicious-looking data sets? “No, not really.”
He also had some other advice for Facebook.
He looks again at his “Four” — Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple — and how things have changed in the short time since he wrote his book.
“On a scale of one to 10, Europe’s regulations [are] a nine, we’re a zero. Why can’t we get to a four or a five?”
NYU professor Scott Galloway calls for people who are concerned about privacy to elect leaders who will rein in the tech giants.
Political advertisers will also need to register with Facebook by “confirming their identity and location.”