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Angwin was fired Monday evening, and most of her staff resigned in solidarity. “I have to brush up on my coup literature,” she joked.
The $3 billion to $5 billion fine Facebook says it expects from the FTC probably won’t be enough to change its behavior.
“It demonstrates this kind of degradation of trust in the platforms.”
This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared.
Hempel joined the site’s editorial team this year after 17 years at magazines like Businessweek, Fortune, and Wired.
Facebook and Google could soon be forced to pay more creators for the content that appears on their sites.
All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country.
AI Now Institute founders Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker explain everything you need to know on the latest Recode Decode.
The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he’s willing to write checks to support it.
Remember when Silicon Valley’s giants scoffed at regulation? Now they see it as a protective shield.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has issues with Facebook’s targeted ad business.
Nobody at Facebook actually did anything with your password. As far as we know.
The viral video of a shooting in New Zealand offered a grim reminder of tech companies’ vast reach.
No more clicking out to a retailer’s website.
One in three US Facebook users lives in a place where the company cannot find much local news.
Vestager spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at South By Southwest.
The internet — including Facebook — is built for sharing.
Two important Facebook execs left the company after disagreements with Zuckerberg.
Chris Cox, Facebook’s powerful product boss is out. So is WhatsApp boss Chris Daniels.
Facebook blamed the issue on a “server configuration change.”
“I actually think they are as complicit or, rather, responsible for manipulating worldwide elections. I mean, worldwide.”
Dorsey endorsed Ben Greenfield as a health expert. Greenfield thinks vaccinations lead to autism.
“We live in a time where the anger against big tech has increased tenfold,” said Kevin Systrom. “That doesn’t mean that the answer is to break all of the companies up.”
Facebook without Instagram? Amazon without Whole Foods? That’s Warren’s hope.
Facebook is pushing more deeply into private, encrypted communication. What does that mean for your News Feed?
What took so long?
Don’t listen to the conventional wisdom about relying on Instagram or Snapchat, Porter says — just go where your audience is.
“I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today’s open platforms,” Zuckerberg wrote Wednesday.
“To all the people that worked for me and whose money I took, you’re fucking welcome,” he said.
Chavern’s organization advocates on behalf of 2,000 print and online media outlets.
There are a lot of consequences to giving up Facebook — and many of them are positive.
Dowd joins Kara Swisher on the latest episode, sitting in for Pivot’s regular co-host Scott Galloway.
That’s because “ad free” doesn’t just mean ad free.
TV and newspapers are out. Facebook and Google are in.
Silicon Valley has compromised our autonomy, Zuboff says: “They can take hold of our behavior and shift it and modify it in ways that we don’t know.”
India is proposing new content laws that could be a “sledgehammer” for free speech.
The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee called Facebook a “digital gangster” — but it’s not the only group of regulators out for blood.
Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and Fox, talks about the diminished power of movie studios and why “Netflix has won this game” on the latest Recode Decode.
Cambridge Analytica is still causing headaches for Facebook.
Experts weigh in on whether a for-profit journalism initiative can do what big tech can’t.