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Documents show Facebook controlling competitors with user data

November 6, 2019 admin competitors, Facebook, latest news, latest stories, Today's Breaking News, user data

Credit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:53:30 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO: Leaked documents from a civil suit against Facebook show how the social network aimed to employ user data as a tool for bargaining and to manipulate competitors, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Some 7,000 pages of documents reveal how Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his team harnessed users’ personal information to reward partners […]

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Banning Political Ads on Facebook Could Backfire Big-Time on Democrats

November 5, 2019 admin 2020, 2020 election, ADVERTISING, Donald Trump, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, politics

Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 18:36:34 +0000

It would deprive 2020 Democrats of a crucial tool to gather voter data and amass small-dollar donations.

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Why Twitter’s Political Ad Ban Won’t Make a Damn Difference

October 31, 2019 admin Facebook, political ads, Twitter

Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:23:13 +0000

“That money that you’re banning isn’t leaving politics.”

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Heat (The Elephant In The Room)

October 30, 2019 admin Amazon, buildings, clean power, climate change, co2 emissions, data centers, dublin ireland, energy efficiency, Europe, Facebook, Fossil Fuels, google, grid, heating emissions, home energy management, home heating, microsoft, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, United States

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:53:44 +0000

I came across a very interesting statistic the other day from the IEA’s Renewables 2018 report. The statistic is that 50% of total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat for our homes, industry, and other applications

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Facebook Employees Have Launched Their First Major Protest Against Mark Zuckerberg

October 29, 2019 admin Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, political ads, protest

Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:23:52 +0000

As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment?

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Facebook Has Become a ‘Megaphone for Hate’ Against Muslims in India

October 29, 2019 admin assam, Bangladesh, Facebook, hindu nationalism, India, Islamophobia, national register of citizens, Rohingya

Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:21:41 +0000

As millions of Indians are being stripped of their citizenship, rights groups say Facebook has given free rein to Hindu nationalist hate speech.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional Testimony Got Sidetracked by a Weird Exchange About Vaccines

October 23, 2019 admin Congress, Facebook, Vaccines

Credit to Author: Anna Merlan| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:21:36 +0000

Congressman Bill Posey interrupted a House Financial Services Committee hearing to press the Facebook CEO on how he would make the platform safe for anti-vaccine content.

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