Investment company Trillium Asset Management has filed a proposal to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman of the board. They say he shouldn't hold the CEO and Chairman positions simultaneously and he weakens the boards oversight. This proposal was filed after Facebook shares took a huge dive in...
Former startup Six4Three is suing Facebook and alleges that they weaponized user data. The latest filings in this case, which originally started in 2015, say Facebook would tempt developers with long-term access to all the user data available so they could create platforms within Facebook. Once...
Facebook is really trying to get trust back these days and they aren't doing a good job of it if you ask me. Take for instance their last little trick where messages sent to others from Zuckerberg or other executives is being removed from the mailbox of the person who received it. Nothing in...
Mark Zuckerberg says users that had their profile set to allow others to search for them by email address or phone number have had that information scraped by others. Because of this Facebook has seen malicious actors scraping up this information (Warning auto play video) and they have turned...
Vanity Fair is reporting that Facebook is getting even more bad press when it comes to user data. With the events of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, more and more people are taking a look at the data the Facebook has on them. One user, Dylan McKay, and Android user, downloaded his Facebook data...
Mark Zuckerberg has come out and said that Facebook is going to have auditors review thousands of apps and believe this will help to deter bad actors, but it won't be able to figure out where user data is (Site detects ad blockers) or how it's being used. I don't know about anybody else, but...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal today in a Facebook post. Zuckerberg basically gave a timeline of events, starting at the creation of Facebook, leading up to the event. Zuckerberg states that "This was a breach of trust between Kogan...
A group letter was sent from the "Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" to Mark Zuckerberg urging him to discontinue "Messenger Kids" a social media app for children under 13. "Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" is a group of 100 experts, advocates and parenting organizations...
Last week Facebook announced it was going to implement a system where users would be asked to complete surveys to determine the quality of news postings. Well the survey has been leaked, and it is 2 questions. "Do you recognize the following websites?" And "How much do you trust each of these...
Since 2009 Mark Zuckerberg has given himself several challenges per year to overcome. In 2018 he intends to focus on issues like hate speech, errors that Facebook makes enforcing policies and other stuff. The issues I find interesting that he is looking into are the use of encryption and...
While it sucks that South Park Studios still uses an Adobe Flash Player, this week's episode Franchise Prequel, is pretty funny. The Coon, Netflix, and of course everyone's favorite, Professor Chaos is involved. Yeah, Chaos and The Zuck take their revenge, just like in real life! It is a...