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Zuckerberg to host ‘public discussions’ after torrid year for Facebook
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is planning to speak up more in 2019 in a bid to address some of the anxieties around social media.
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World’s biggest billionaire winners and losers of 2018
The markets may be tanking, but that hasn’t stopped plenty of mega-fortunes from being unearthed in 2018.
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Facebook problems will take years to fix: Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was “proud of the progress we’ve made” fighting misinformation and protecting users’ personal data during one of the company’s most tumultuous years.
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2018: The year Facebook lost all its friends
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began the year by pledging to fix the social network’s problems, but by the end of 2018 finds himself and his company under more scrutiny than ever.
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World’s richest lost $511-billion in 2018
The richest people on Earth lost $511-billion (R7.4-trillion) this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs.
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Facebook just can’t seem to learn from its mistakes
Why didn’t Facebook do a full accounting after March of all its partnership arrangements that hooked outside companies into Facebook data? It cannot seem to clean up its own mess.
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E-mail cache doesn’t tell the whole story: Facebook
Facebook has said the cache of documents published about its business tells “only one side of the story”.
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Easiest way to fix Facebook? Break it up
Occam’s razor is a principle that says when something happens that can be explained in multiple ways, the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
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Zuckerberg hopes to work with Sandberg for ‘decades’
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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Tech giants didn’t deserve public trust in the first place
Amazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish its new headquarters. But like many technology companies recently, it…