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New privacy rules coming into effect in the EU next month are “very positive”, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday (4 April) – announcing that they will have an effect beyond Europe. He spoke to reporters via a conference call to discuss the various issues that have put the social networking giant in a…
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Facebook has recorded mass deletions since admitting that Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from over 50 million users without their knowledge or consent. Cambridge Analytica LLC (CA) is a Delaware registered limited liability company, with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C. and London. The company combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with…
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A boycott campaign started on Facebook after news surfaced in the media that a political data firm harvested private information from over 50 million users without their knowledge or consent. Image: Mark Zuckerberg According a report from the New York Times, more than 40,000 people mentioned the hashtag #DeleteFacebook on Twitter on Tuesday and Facebook…
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British broadcaster BBC has invested a whooping $44 million to compete from a position of strength with business giants Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix. BBC, now 94 years old, said today that it has an annual plan to continue reinvesting for a “new generation BBC.” “We put children’s front and center throughout the charter renewal…
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the American programmer and Internet entrepreneur, is facing serious threats from Facebook shareholders who are putting pressure on the company to remove him from its board of directors. Zuckerberg, 32, is the company’s chairman, CEO and co-founder. This dramatic development in one of the world’s most popular social networking company comes as…
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A group of psychotic rapists in Uppsala, Sweden, have been arrested after an attempt to make a viral sex video. The men broke into their victim’s home and allegedly gang-raped the woman while streaming it online. Sadly, the live Facebook video lasted about three hours before a good Samaritan alerted the police. According to a…
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Facebook’s trending sidebar will now be populated by an algorithm which will determine what people are talking about. While former employees in the section have been replaced by computers, a new team of engineers will take over duties to ensure topics that appear are newsworthy. According to Quartz, the entire editorial team of 15-18 people…
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Jessica O‘Brien never expected that a decision to sell off her sofa on FaceBook would turn out to haunt her forever as she mistakenly displayed her “private property” instead. That need to sell the property wasn’t bad at all, choosing to display her settee on FB as a marketing outlet wasn’t bad, too, except that she…
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Microsoft’s announcement, on Monday, that it would purchase LinkedIn—its biggest acquisition ever, at more than $26b—brought to mind an earlier takeover attempt, almost a decade ago. Back in the mid-aughts, Microsoft’s C.E.O. at the time, Steve Ballmer, flew to Palo Alto to try to convince Mark Zuckerberg, the young C.E.O. of Facebook, to let Microsoft…
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One Bank of America worker who goes by the name Christine Mcmullen Lindgren was fired from her job after expressing her hatred for blacks in a Facebook post. “I hate face book for this reason you f –king, n—-rs,” Lindgren wrote on Wednesday, June 1. “Go back to Africa get over your pity party you created this…
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Facebook Inc’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called on Brazilians to fight against what he calls injustice to the people. He urged citizens and social media users to stand up against the government and ensure that his company’s messaging service (WhatsApp) never gets blocked again in the country. An appeals court had on Tuesday overturned the…
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“The world is a small place,” they always say. This is true especially with many of us sharing our victories, disappointments, and the milestones of our lives on Facebook. We sometimes share too much without realizing that it’s for the whole world to see. As a recurring event, the shared information continues to backfire if…
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