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Facebook Plans to Rebrand Company With New Name, Report Says
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to discuss the name change at the company’s Connect conference on Oct. 28, The Verge reported
Facebook Settles U.S. Claims That It Reserved Jobs for Foreigners With Temporary H-1B Visas
The company agreed to pay as much as $14.3 million in separate settlement agreements
Facebook Is Creating 10,000 Jobs in the E.U. to Help Develop Its Metaverse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been aggressively pushing the metaverse as a vision for the future of Facebook
Facebook Will Ban “Coordinated Harassment” and Content That Degrades Public Figures
This is the latest change following congressional testimony that faulted the company for failing to stop harmful content
‘SNL’ Slams Facebook Over Whistleblower Report During Cold Open, Weekend Update
"Internal documents show that Facebook knew their platform was used to spread hate and disinformation but they hid the evidence," co-anchor Colin Jost says
How Facebook Forced a Reckoning by Shutting Down the Team That Put People Ahead of Profits
Facebook's civic-integrity team, where whistle-blower Frances Haugen worked, pledged to put people ahead of profits. Facebook shut it down, but some former members are still honoring their promise.
Facebook Will Not Fix Itself
Five years ago, I embarked on a mission to help Facebook change its culture, business model and algorithms. I had been involved with the company in its early days as an adviser and investor. Since then, I and countless others have pressed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to reform Facebook.…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Calls Whistleblower’s Profits Over Safety Claims ‘Deeply Illogical’
CEO also briefly addressed the platforms' outage in lengthy post
What Good Is Clout in an Instagram Outage?
“What kind of rights do creators have and what kind of protections do we have?” asks one activist and influencer, following Monday's six-hour Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp outage
4 Big Takeaways From the Facebook Whistleblower Congressional Hearing
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the Senate that “Facebook is prioritizing profit over people"
While Instagram Was Down, Team Highsnobiety Kept Busy
Like all digital media sites, a lot of what we do on a daily basis is predicated on social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: they’re all essential for content sharing. However, in the morning hours of October 4 (East Coast time), Facebook and its family of apps went down and they went down hard. Hours […]
AOC Pounces on Facebook Blackout: ‘Break Them Up’
"It's almost as if Facebook’s monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy."