It’s no secret that Mark Zuckerberg hates the hold that mobile operating systems have over its platform, especially Apple’s iPhone. We already know that the CEO of Facebook (now called Meta) wants to deliver a killing blow to the iPhone with the help of augmented reality (AR) glasses. AR glasses wouldn’t need to be paired …
The document dump that Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen supplied to a consortium of news publishers, which began publishing a flurry of stories derived from the documents on Monday, revealed, among other things, that Facebook’s leadership has identified a new existential threat to the social networking giant: Old people. More specifically, the users who remain — …
The world didn’t need a Facebook whistleblower to realize how toxic Facebook is. But that’s what Frances Haugen did in the past few weeks. The former Facebook employee leaked internal documents that show Facebook was aware of how unsafe its social products can be, including Facebook and Instagram. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg only reacted publicly …
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified on Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Haugen’s testimony came after a few tumultuous weeks for Facebook. The whistleblower worked with The Wall Street Journal to expose Facebook’s knowledge of the kind of harmful content on its platform can do to Facebook customers. Haugen then appeared …
In the lead-up to Monday’s arrival of the long-awaited iOS 14.5 — the new version of Apple’s mobile operating software that strikes a blow against the creepy user tracking underpinning Facebook’s business model — there was a particular dynamic that consistently dominated much of the press coverage. Things tended to be put in pretty binary …
Today is the day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been dreading for more than a year, possibly even extending back to a private encounter he had with Apple CEO Tim Cook back in July 2019 at the annual Allen & Company investment bank conference that’s regularly attended by America’s corporate elite. The arrival on …
University student Zamaan Qureshi, who works on social media for the ad-hoc group of activists who call themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board, was gobsmacked enough by news about the massive Facebook data leak from a few days ago that he decided to do some digging. First, he looked himself up on the “Have I …
This is going to surprise absolutely no one, but less than a week after word that more than half a billion people had their personal data leaked from the world’s largest and least-loved social network, Facebook has apparently gone and done it again. A new Facebook data leak has been uncovered, this one including user …
Facebook was hacked in August 2019, when attackers grabbed personal data for 533 million accounts, including emails and phone numbers. Earlier this year, the hack made the news as unknown individuals were selling access to the database online. For a fee, you could pair a Facebook user ID with a phone number or vice-versa, assuming …
The ongoing Apple vs Facebook spat, generally over privacy concerns, has kicked into high gear in recent days, spurred on thanks to increasingly pointed comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The iPhone maker is also in the arguably awkward position of maintaining multiple official Facebook pages — dedicated to promoting …
