Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by...
Federal filings show that Google spent about $150 million (USD) on lobbying in the United States over the past decade. The next-biggest tech spenders on government lobbying in the last 10 years:...
View ArticleWashington state sues Facebook a second time over political ads
The attorney general for Washington state filed a second lawsuit against Facebook on Tuesday, over political ads in the 2020 presidential election season. The lawsuit says Facebook once again has...
View ArticleFacebook nixes 'pseudoscience' ad-targeting category
After The Markup revealed that Facebook users were being targeted with bad ads for garbage products, Facebook has now agreed to remove “pseudoscience” as an ad targeting option for advertisers. Yes,...
View ArticleFacebook helps launch American Edge, lobbying group in DC to fight antitrust...
• Facebook is one of the big-tech entities behind American Edge, a new lobbying group in DC to fight antitrust regulators and push back against lawmakers trying to rein in Big Tech. “Facebook is...
View Article'GrokNet', the AI behind Facebook Shops, looks for body type, skin tone,...
• Yay, Clearview AI but for shopping! Facebook Mark Zuckerberg today announced the launch of Facebook Shops, an e-commerce feature to allows business users to list and sell products on Facebook and...
View ArticleHere's what Facebook employees are saying about Zuckerberg's decision not to...
“If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly.” Leaked internal Facebook posts reveal that Facebook employees are horrified that Mark Zuckerberg and C-suite executives refuse to...
View ArticleOver 30 ex-Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg's inaction on harmful political...
Dozens of former employees of Facebook blasted Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook in an open letter for the way it handles (or doesn't handle) political speech that is inaccurate and damaging. "Facebook’s...
View ArticleFacebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find,...
At least two of the three men charged this week with plotting violence at a Las Vegas anti-racism protest participated in “Boogaloo” groups on Facebook, an FBI criminal complaint says. In response,...
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'Black lives matter'—Mark Zuckerberg, who says Facebook may change policy on...
"Black lives matter," said Mark Zuckerberg today. "We're building a voter hub to double down on our previous get-out-the-vote efforts,” wrote the Facebook founder and CEO in a lengthy blog post on...
View ArticleUK antitrust watchdog to investigate Facebook acquisition of Giphy
The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, the UKs antitrust watchdog, has begun an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy. The deal is valued at around $400 million, and under...
View ArticleFacebook removes Trump ally Roger Stone's accounts and pages
Longtime Donald Trump consigliere Roger Stone is due in prison next week. Facebook on Wednesday took down 50 personal and professional pages connected to the U.S. President’s former adviser, about 10...
View ArticleTexas AG probing Facebook over biometric data collection that may violate...
“Texas is investigating Facebook for possibly running afoul of state laws on the collection of biometric data, according to June documents uncovered by a tech watchdog group,” reports Ashley Gold at...
View ArticleFacebook announces plans to make a new Facebook that's basically the same as...
From Forbes: Facebook launched a new 'Facebook Campus' feature Thursday that aims to connect college students with their campus communities, returning the social network to its initial college-only...
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Watch: New ad asks if Facebook makes Zuckerberg's kids proud, airing tonight
"I really just care about building something that my girls are going to grow up and be proud of me for," Mark Zuckerberg told CNN Money. Now the clip is being used in a new ad created by Accountable...
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Facebook knew in August ~70% of most active civic 'Groups' were too toxic to...
In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users, reports Jeff Horwitz at the Wall Street Journal on...
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Mark Zuckerberg loves him some Signal Messenger
According to India Today, cyber security researcher Dave Walker managed to sort out that Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal—the encrypted messaging service you should likely be using, too—to yap online with...
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Poor Mark Zuckerberg compares looking at messages to getting "punched in the...
"[I] wake up in the morning, look at my phone to get a million messages … It's almost like every day you wake up and you're like punched in the stomach," says poor Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire who...
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Mark Zuckerberg training MMA is about as weird as you'd think it be
Self-defense is an essential skill that every human should have. Even if it's minimal, the ability to intelligently navigate physical combat can provide one with a massive psychological boon. Instead...
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"Devastated morale" at Meta after layoffs and Zuckerberg's "bad bets"
Morale at Meta is suffering under layoffs, absentee leadership and "bad bets", reports the New York Times. The "year of efficiency", as Mark Zuckerberg euphemized, is sinking in. Employees at Meta,...
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Mark Zuckerberg won a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) Even though none of us know Mark Zuckerberg personally, doesn't it just feel like he's sort of off? Again, no "shade"- to use the...
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Elon Musk challenges Mark Zuckerberg to cage fight, and Zuckerberg accepts
Two billionaire egos are snarled up on social media: those of Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, and Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Facebook. Musk challenged Zuck to a cage fight and Zuck accepted: "Send me...
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Zuckerberg's Twitter alternative, Threads, to launch thursday as part of...
If you're online in any capacity, you will have noticed that Elon Musk's stewardship of Twitter hasn't exactly gone well. Advertisers have pulled out, functionality is broken, and even his sycophantic...
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Scared Musk sends legal threat to Meta after Threads lures 30 million on...
Twitter's eroding reign over microblogging may collapse as Meta's new platform, Threads, emerges as a serious contender, with a staggering 30 million users signing up on launch day. Increasingly...
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Elon Musk promises to livestream Zuckerberg fight on Twitter, if it even happens
After an ill-conceived boxing match between Ultimate Divorced Guy Elon Musk and Alien Skinsuit Wearer Mark Zuckerberg was called off thanks to Elon's mom (rightfully) not wanting her son to get...
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Desperate DeSantis concedes Trump's 2020 loss while trying to appease MAGA...
Ron DeSantis is in a difficult position. Presidential front-runner Donald Trump has unrestricted liberty to insult DeSantis, calling him names like Tiny D, Meatball Ron, and Ron DisHonest. However,...
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"Sweetie, have you seen the yacht photos?"— Elon musk is in no shape for a...
CNN's Anderson Cooper was in rare form on New Year's Eve as he threw back shots with his best pal, Andy Cohen, to ring in 2024. As the duo stood on the stage in the middle of Times Square bantering on...
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Zuckerberg's side hustle: raising astronomically priced beef on his $270M...
Things are going well for Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, who seems to be settling in nicely at his $270 million beachfront compound in Kauai, Hawaii. He's taking to raising Wagyu and Angus cattle and teaching...
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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly building a self-sustaining doomsday bunker in Hawaii
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., is reportedly constructing a top-secret $270 million compound in Kauai, Hawaii, including a 5,000 square-foot doomsday bunker. Guthrie Scrimgeour for Wired:...
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Trump's Tiktok tantrum targets tech tycoon
Of the piles of vile and/or idiotic word garbage that have spewed out of DJ Trump since 2015, I have probably only agreed with him once or twice. We are certainly in sync when he says that Ron DeSantis...
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