Bobby Pickles, the owner of Fat Enzo,, a custom cap and t-shirt sweatshop based in West Palm Beach, is the latest person to be erased from social media for advocating for a commutation or pardon of Trump advisor Roger Stone. Pickles, the man behind the infamous ROGER STONE DID NOTHING […]
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According to internal sources, a temporary ban on political ads is designed to eliminate misleading political content that could affect the choices made by American voters. Facebook is considering a ban on political ads on the social media platform in the run-up to the US presidential election this November, Bloomberg […]
Recode co-founder Kara Swisher has this thing she likes to call the “prick to productivity ratio”—how big of a jerk a particular executive is, verus how much he gets done. And these days, both in Silicon Valley and in Washington, that ratio has gone all wrong. “Taking advantage, just not […]
Facebook had the chance to curb voter suppression targeting Black Americans ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Instead, it stumbled on that and other civil liberties issues, according to a new independent civil rights audit released on Wednesday. The audit, commissioned by Facebook and conducted over two years by civil […]
Coinbase has hired Paul Grewal, former U.S. magistrate judge and Facebook legal alum, to lead the cryptocurrency exchange giant’s legal team. Source link
Facebook has banned dozens of pages allegedly linked to ex-Trump adviser and Republican operative Roger Stone, as well as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in its relentless battle against political ‘misinformation networks’. The 100-account network said to be linked to Stone, a Florida resident, was discovered in the course of an […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Facebook said on Wednesday it removed 54 Facebook accounts, 50 Pages, and 4 Instagram accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior in the United States which were connected to former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone and his associates. “TThe people behind this activity used fake accounts […]
Facebook failed to remove three posts by the US President Donald Trump that “allowed the propagation of hate/violent speech and facilitated voter suppression,” causing concern among the civil rights community, a new report says. A fresh audit of Facebook’s policies and practices, commissioned by the world’s largest social media platform itself […]
Facebook is facing the biggest corporate boycott in the company’s history. Following a call from advocacy groups working under the umbrella Stop Hate for Profit, more than 300 advertisers have pledged not to spend money on the platform for the month of July. Although the boycott is unlikely to sink the company, […]
US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. Like its tech industry contemporaries, a Zoom spokesperson said the company “supports the free and open exchange of thoughts and ideas,” […]
Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press. July 5, 2020 Facebook Groups Pivot To Attacks On Black Lives Matter2020-07-052020-07-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/black-lives-matter-protesters-in-st.-paul-mn-ap-e1593969451585.jpg200px200px Above photo: Black Lives Matter protesters march away from the State Capitol, in St. Paul, Minn. A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across […]
‘In a speech last October, Mr Zuckerberg had controversially signalled that Facebook’s interests aligned with Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters Guardian: In every political debate since Facebook began to dominate democracy, the company has placed itself on the wrong side of history. The social media firm cannot be reformed from within because […]
Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, one of the groups organizing an advertising boycott of Facebook for the month of July. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, one of the groups organizing an advertising boycott of Facebook for […]
Hundreds of Facebook profiles said to be part of a “violent anti-government network” linked to the loose-knit “boogaloo” movement have been permanently deleted, the latest in a wave of mass bans targeting the political right. Some 220 accounts, 106 groups and 28 pages were scrubbed from Facebook on Tuesday, the […]
A longtime subforum dedicated to fans and supporters of US President Donald Trump has been removed from Reddit, adding to the growing list of social media violations recently attributed to the US president and his supporters. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a Monday content policy update that in addition […]
Facebook, Accenture, IoTeX, Nvidia and six other companies are joining the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), increasing the size of the privacy-focused group by 60 percent. The addition of members IoTeX, which leverages blockchain to secure the internet of things, and R3, an enterprise blockchain company, nearly doubles the […]
Over 160 mostly US companies have already joined the ‘Stop Hate for Profit’ campaign in the wake of George Floyd’s death, with corporations including Coca Cola, Levi’s, Starbucks, and Verizon agreeing to partially or fully freeze their Facebook ad buys next month, ostensibly to try to force the social media […]
Outrageous! After preventing nearly all conservative posts from being shared on its platform since the 2016 Presidential election, Facebook is now preventing all content from conservative thinkers being shared on its platform period. Reuters reported on Friday: Facebook Inc said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates […]
Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook’s shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to take bigger steps to curb hate speech and crack down on harmful content on the social network. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to take bigger steps to curb hate speech […]
Facebook will change its policies to ban “hate speech” in advertisements on the platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, after activists brigaded a number of major corporations to pull their ads from the platform. “I am committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to […]
Last week, Facebook’s Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson reportedly sent a memo to advertisers saying that the company sets “policies based on principles rather than business interests”. In a statement on Thursday, the US telecom giant Verizon said that it is withdrawing advertising on Facebook and that […]
The great James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released undercover video today that proves Facebook is targeting conservatives and putting MAGA supporters in the same grouping as terrorists. The video goes on to explain how Facebook is working to promote the left and leftist causes on a global scale. This is […]
Trump’s video caused waves on social media, as it showed an edited version of earlier viral footage of one black and one white toddler – known to be friends – running toward each other and hugging, with dark music and CNN-like captions and an end comment of “America isn’t the […]