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Government regulators are, yet again, stepping up scrutiny on Big Tech.
“If history is any guide, the people that are leading the race today are not going to be the nominee.”
Here are our counterpoints to the points Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook made during their House antitrust hearing.
Because a $5 billion fine won’t change Facebook’s business. At all.
“Bogus” kind of gives it away.
The groups were secret to a lot of people — but not Facebook. So why didn’t the company do more about them?
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there?
It’s complicated and no one is happy.
Instagram is one of Facebook’s most valuable products and is on track to drive most of the company’s advertising revenue growth.
A new bill would tell you how much the ad-targeting data you give to companies like Google and Facebook is worth.
I wouldn’t trust Facebook to hold my house keys, and yet I think its libra cryptocurrency effort is exactly the right move for it to make.
New legislation proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley that’s intended to rid social media of supposed political bias ignores the platforms’ real problems.
Glassdoor reviews showed the social media CEO drop from No. 16 to No. 55 in a ranking of top US CEOs.
Libra, Facebook’s new virtual coin, is the most consequential cryptocurrency effort undertaken in several years.
“Regulation is here and it’s time and it’s good,” Nicole Wong said onstage at Code 2019.
What would happen if Facebook was broken up?
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Facebook AR/VR lead Andrew Bosworth will talk about the future of the social network at Code Conference 2019.
He’s advertising to people who already know him and are likelier to support him.
When it comes to Facebook shareholders, Zuckerberg’s vote is the only one that matters.
On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make “do not track” the norm.
Turns out on Facebook, just because something isn’t real doesn’t mean it’s against the rules.
Zuckerberg is passionate about Facebook’s products, but he has too much power and needs to give some of it up, Stamos says.
This seems bad.
Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
Facebook advertisements were a big part of the president’s campaign in 2016.
Garlinghouse’s company sells the software to banks to let them transact on blockchain, which means he spends a lot of his time reassuring people that the Silk Road days are over.
It’s a scheme to rile up conservatives — and get some voter data in the process.
“Section 230 is not about neutrality. Period. Full stop.”
On the latest episode of Recode Media, former Amazon and Hulu employee Eugene Wei explains why Netflix and its competitors aren’t playing the same game.
Multiple countries and companies are signing the “Christchurch call.” The US isn’t among them.
It pays to be in tech.
Carter spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher recently about AI ethics, tech regulation, and more, and you can hear the full conversation now on Recode Decode.
Regulating social media is more important than breaking up Facebook.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes believes it’s time to break up the company he helped start — and says Mark Zuckerberg’s power is “unprecedented and un-American.”
Lawmakers are calling for the FTC to bring down the hammer on Facebook — and potentially Mark Zuckerberg.
Harris, previously best known for his association with the Time Well Spent movement, compares the unchecked rise of tech to the “catastrophic” future of climate change.
Jones, Farrakhan, and others just got kicked off Facebook and Instagram.
It’s part science — and part PR.
The social network you love — or hate — needs a radical reboot.