The term “fake news” has gained prominence in recent years thanks to US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media during the 2016 US election. In 2017, it was one of Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 words of
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The fresh disclosures about the Cambridge Analytica affair are dismaying for Facebook, and they were getting a lot of deserved attention on Wednesday. But what happened at the shadowy political consulting
Facebook spent much of Wednesday outlining ways that the privacy of its two billion users might have been compromised for years by the company’s lax data policies. The shares rallied anyway after CEO Mark
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back at recent remarks by Tim Cook, calling the Apple CEO’s criticism of the social media giant “extremely glib”. Cook was asked about Facebook’s privacy crisis last month and
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it will take “a few years” to solve the issues plaguing the social media company. “I wish I could solve all these issues in three months or six months, but I just think the
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the week’s big technology stories, including EOH’s financial results. Also on the show this week, Facebook’s travails
Facebook is conducting a broad review of all its data practices and taking a much more conservative stance on some policies, moves that could limit advertisers’ ability to target users on the social network, according to people
Facebook, reeling from a scandal involving the misuse of 50m users’ private data, has moved to tighten up its privacy rules and make it easier for people to manage how their information is used and shared. Reports earlier this
Mark Zuckerberg is making it easier to tear digital pages out of your Facebook. But that doesn’t mean he wants to. At first glance, it’s a sincere reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Under the rubric
Facebook is heading toward its worst month since May 2013 after an analyst report warned of a temporary pullback in advertising and the US Federal Trade Commission confirmed it’s investigating the social