Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With ...
Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization
Elon Musk's “Twitter Files,” which supposedly reveal … Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief Livemint : Twitter character limit to incr...
A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay yet-to-be-determined penalties
and rejected Facebook's cynical attempt to strike down our campaign finance law. https://twitter.com/... Melissa Ryan / @melissaryan : What a surprise. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ... Robert Cruicks...
Profile of Katie Harbath, a former Facebook public policy director, who says social media will incubate future political violence unless governments intervene
Katie Harbath says she left Facebook disillusioned; now she pushes for more online guardrails — Katie Harbath joined Facebook … Tweets: @rebekahktromble , @newley , @melissaryan , @blackamazon , @so...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
Biden staffers say their experiences in dealing with Facebook during the election left them concerned that the company is a threat to the electoral process
Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook. — Opinion Writer at Large — In the days after the election … Tweets: @cwarzel , @ethannichtern , @brendannyhan , @whotargetsme , @nytopinion , @anandw...
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
Good morning! This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...
Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @buzzfeednews , @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @melissaryan , and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Facebook celebrated booting far-right extremists from ...
During a hearing, Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz continue to say big tech companies are stifling conservative speech even as experts say no evidence exists
Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday pilloried Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations they censor conservative users … Tweets: @oneunderscore__ , @willsommer , @tonyromm , @natijomarti...
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results
i.e. those most like to have children potentially in need of vaccinations http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Melissa Ryan / @melissaryan : Shame is the only thing that seems to work with Facebook. This...