Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has come under fire for her handling of company disclosures about Russia’s election influence. CEO Mark Zuckerberg came to her defence on Tuesday.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune has tumbled by $17.4-billion so far this year as Facebook faces fresh criticism over its treatment of critics and continues to grapple with the fallout from its response to Russian election meddling.
The Chinese Communist Party’s vision of a Web where governments pull the strings could wind up the model for the next billion users.
Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping marked the opening of the first World Internet Conference in 2014, it was meant to usher in a new era of digital openness and project China as a champion of global cyber governance. Those promises are now starting to lie fallow.
With due respect to Tim Berners-Lee’s attempts to recreate the bright-eyed enthusiasm of the Internet’s early years, the Web is long past attempts at self-regulation and voluntary ethics codes.
Although Facebook may have tamped down on hoax news in the US, bigger problems remain, driven by the viral nature of shocking content.
On the same day the world’s largest company issues its biggest disappointment in years, US President Donald Trump, does an about-face on China.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on video and disappearing posts called “stories”, not the company’s famous news feed. Investors are buying into the vision for now.