Tag: Mark Zuckerberg

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Hate speech: Germany insists in regulating online social networks, despite Facebook's promises

  

  Germany is determined to expand its attempts to regulate online hate speech even as Facebook promises to do more to clean up its site after a global advertiser boycott, with politicians saying the issue is too important to leave to self-regulation.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Facebook 'hate speech' boycott: 400 brands stop advertising; civil rights groups insist in meeting Zuckerberg

  

  Advertisements for more than 400 brands including Coca-Cola and Starbucks are due to vanish from Facebook as of Thursday, after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  Ahead of US presidential election, Facebook will affix labels to political ads shared by users

  

  Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would affix labels to political ads shared by users on their own feeds, closing what critics have said for years was a glaring loophole in the company’s election transparency measures.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Facebook employee who challenged Zuckerberg's silence towards inflammatory posts from Trump was fired

  

  A Facebook Inc employee who criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump this month said on Friday that the social media company had fired him.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  US billionaires become significantly richer during the pandemic

  

  The combined wealth of America's billionaires, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, jumped more than 19% or by half a trillion since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Facebook staff criticize Zuckerberg for leaving Trump’s most inflammatory verbiage unchallenged

  

  Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts as strictly as the rival platform has done.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Twitter to ban political advertising globally, beginning 22 November

  

  Twitter announced on Wednesday it would ban political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing criticism over misinformation from politicians on social media.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Facebook refuses to suspend encryption plan despite impact on criminal activities

  

  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg defended on Thursday his decision to encrypt the company's messaging services, despite concerns about its impact on child exploitation and other criminal activity.

• Saturday, June 8th 2019 - 07:46 UTC

  Ecuador denies extradition of US citizen charged with trying to defraud Facebook's Zuckenberg

  

  Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno has blocked the extradition to the United States of a New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, according to a document obtained by Reuters.

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 08:59 UTC

  Facebook profits and users rising, but company will set aside US$ 3bn for US FTC investigation into privacy practices

  

  Facebook has said it will set aside US$ 3bn to cover the potential costs of an investigation by US authorities into its privacy practices. While it has provided for a heavy toll from the investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission, the final cost could be US$ 5bn, it said.