In a bombshell report released yesterday, The New York Times revealed that Facebook allowed companies such as Netflix and Spotify to harvest its users' data without their consent, potentially violating their 2011 Federal Trade Commissions agreement. Over the past few years, ...read more
Chuck Schumer was comfortably re-elected as Senate Minority Leader yesterday by the Democratic caucus, but a stunning New York Times exposé of Facebook reveals that he attempted to impede investigations into the tech giant. The story, which runs about 5,000 words and carries ...read more
Societies have long known that when inventors don't ask hard questions of themselves, the results can be catastrophic. Mark Zuckerberg learned this the hard way this week when he testified before Congress over two consecutive days concerning Cambridge Analytica's breach of ...read more
I write this as a veteran of dozens and dozens of Facebook news feed algorithm changes over the past few years: local news publishers beware, Mark Zuckerberg and the news feed team are about to wreck your business. Today, Facebook announced that users will start to see more ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Creators, inventors, and CEOs often have a hard time understanding the consequences of their products when used for ill means, arguing that technology, when it first comes into existence, is a tabula rasa -- that is neither all good nor all bad.. To continue ...read more
(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Yesterday, Drew Magary published an entertaining little screed over at Deadspin that tore into the internet's ever-expanding professional grievance industry. He pegged it off of a series of breathtakingly douchey tweets he found that had ...read more
Facebook is using all of us as its experimental guinea pigs, and it's reported the lab results in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences. Approximately 680,000 Facebook users had their news feeds artificially engineered in order to attempt to manipulate their emotions. ...read more
Everyone loves to hate Facebook. Why? Probably because you spend every waking hour on it, and part of you knows you need to talk to real human beings once in a while. But the lure of finding out what ex-boyfriends are up to, and who the cute girl is in the office next to you is ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The news that Facebook shareholders are suing the social network, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a number of banks that collaborated with Facebook's IPO last week should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the murky dealings of Wall St. The shareholders are ...read more
Facebook has priced its shares ahead of one of the most eagerly-anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history. The social network said on Thursday that it valued shares at $38 (£24) each, and that its shares would begin trading in New York on Friday. At this ...read more
