Tag: Facebook

Sen. Bill Nelson and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Bill Nelson: We have to watch out for social media or Americans will never ‘have any privacy anymore’

Katelyn Caralle · April 9, 2018 6:01 pm

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during preparation for the Facebook Communities Summit, in Chicago.

National Security

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook ‘too slow’ to respond to Russian interference in 2016

Kelly Cohen · April 9, 2018 3:49 pm

FILE - In this April 30, 2014 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote address at the f8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic, the foundation said Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Beltway Confidential

Committees set to question Mark Zuckerberg are big beneficiaries of Facebook money

Emily Jashinsky · April 9, 2018 3:06 pm

In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.

Beltway Confidential

A really stupid idea: Facebook paying you for your data

Tim Worstall · April 9, 2018 2:33 pm

Facebook will begin alerting users whose private data may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal starting Monday. All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled âProtecting Your Information.â

Facebook announces ‘independent election research commission’

Kelly Cohen · April 9, 2018 2:09 pm

In a formal complaint being filed Monday, child advocates and consumer groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and impose potentially billions of dollars of penalties on Google for allegedly violating childrenâs online privacy and allowing ads to target them.

YouTube illegally collected data on children under 13, advocacy groups say

Katelyn Caralle · April 9, 2018 1:52 pm

Diamond and Silk: ‘Offensive, appalling’ that Facebook found our content to be ‘unsafe to the community’

Naomi Lim · April 9, 2018 12:26 pm

"These tweets, really every time one goes out it does squander this moment of governorship," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar threatens ‘rules of the road’ for tech companies after Cambridge Analytica controversy

Naomi Lim · April 9, 2018 1:57 am

In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.

Facebook suspends Canadian firm connected to Cambridge Analytica

Kelly Cohen · April 8, 2018 9:02 pm

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., also criticized White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for keeping Rob Porter on staff after revelations that Kelly allegedly knew about the allegations of misconduct for months.

Sen. John Kennedy: Facebook, ‘We have a problem’

Kelly Cohen · April 8, 2018 4:10 pm

Afternoon Links: Our Forthcoming Redesign, Regulating Facebook, and Photo Editor Fails

Jim Swift · April 6, 2018 8:25 pm

Facebook endorses political ad regulation legislation

Kelly Cohen · April 6, 2018 6:50 pm