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At Code Media on Monday, a vice president at Facebook said the company can’t legally take down political ads. Soon after, Facebook walked those comments back.
Facebook is making millions off of impeachment ads from Trump, his allies, and his adversaries.
Caryn Marooney told Recode that her time at Facebook showed her “tech has real good and bad it brings to the world — and it’s important to look early at that.”
Kara Swisher joins the conversation on this episode of Reset.
Christopher Wylie says his former firm easily manipulated democracy with Facebook data. Could it happen again?
The NSA surveillance whistleblower issued a scathing review of tech in his upcoming interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher.
Jack Dorsey’s announcement that Twitter is axing political advertisements ups the pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit.
Artists want Instagram’s Community Guidelines to change. Will Facebook finally “free the nipple”?
The limits of the platform model: Sometimes you need to pay humans to make and edit news.
What went down during the Facebook CEO’s testimony.
Facebook’s news project will pay some publishers millions for stories they’ve already written. It’s a major shift.
Zuckerberg’s answer on whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can falsely claim Republicans voted for the Green New Deal: Probably.
Sixty members of Congress got their five minutes of fame.
What will they find?
Facebook wanted to talk about election security, Russia, and Iran. Reporters had other ideas. This may go on for a while.
The social network also says it is beefing up efforts to protect the site in the run-up to the 2020 elections. For instance: It’s going to call false news false.
Does it matter if you’re being transparent if you aren’t really saying anything?
Tonight’s debate will signal whether Warren thinks Facebook — and the rest of tech — may finally be an issue voters care about.
Microsoft is trying to crush Slack and Zoom by essentially giving away Teams for free.
So are YouTube, Twitter, and most news networks.
“I think there is a real possibility that these companies get broken up.”
Warren’s comments reveal that she sees some political upside to continuing to quarrel with Zuckerberg.
Facebook versus the feds. Again.
Mark Zuckerberg’s famously quiet all-staff meetings are now out in the public eye.
The Facebook CEO tried to rally staff in internal staff meetings this summer.
Sen. Warner outlined what he thinks Congress needs to do next on the latest Recode Decode.
Some social media companies clarified this week that they consider most political content “news.”
Humans are auditing your conversations, but that’s not the same as spying.
Facebook thinks you’re okay with Facebook devices that watch you and listen to you. What if it’s right?
On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation.
Facebook’s Marne Levine says regulation isn’t going to slow the company down — well, not exactly.
We can do better than fine companies that break the law.
Investigations into Big Tech are all the rage right now — including among state attorneys general.
Milo Yiannopoulos and his right-wing peers seemed state of the art in 2016. CNN’s Oliver Darcy talks about what changed since then.
There have long been concerns about China’s social media disinformation capabilities, but we haven’t really seen the country put them into action until now.
Everyone else is doing it, so Facebook is trying it, too. The company says it’s a test, available only to US users.
What’s more likely is that all sorts of speech — and people — would get swept up in the technology dragnets Trump seems to be proposing.
“It felt like, well, once that was done, then we’ve done what we needed to do, and we forgot to pause and think about, ethically, what was going on.”
The agency that slapped a $5 billion fine on Mark Zuckerberg’s company isn’t finished yet.
It’s a giant fine. And the company will have to employ many more lawyers. But Facebook will be happy if this is as bad as it gets.