Facebook is facing a tsunami of bad press and slew of serious consequences for its actions, which also has serious implications for other tech giants.
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Here’s Why WhatsApp Dominates The Global South
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When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people’s lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all?
The latest revelations mark the beginning of the end for the House of Zuckerberg
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The Observer’s investigations into Facebook in 2018 exposed a toxic culture. But still the business thrived. That might be about to change
Breaking up Facebook could help it apply safety rules that work, say its content moderators
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Cori Crider, director of Foxglove, a UK legal non-profit that represents the interests of tech workers and whistleblowers, said that a company that was too big to moderate its platform was too big to exist.
Facebook has just suffered its most devastating PR catastrophe yet
h/t Julia Carrie Wong @juliacarriew
“Documents matter. But some documents matter more than others. In addition to the subject matter being different, Haugen released reports from Facebook’s research wing, a team devoted to social science and data analytics that is supposed to help the company’s leaders understand the consequences of their policies and technological designs.”
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