Facebook Misinformation Six Times More Engaged With Than News
Publishers of misinformation on Facebook got six times more engagement than factual news, a new study says. Facebook said engagement, which includes likes and shares, does not show how many people saw a post. Facebook doesn’t let researchers study…
Quick, easy (and free) way to make Facebook more bearable
Facebook is one of those thing that I have a love/hate relationship with. I find it a great way to keep in touch with people, but it can quickly turn into a hellstew at any moment. And it’s not just the ads. It’s the spam, the prompts for…
Facebook is LIMITING what types of news you see in your feed as critics slam ‘unprecedented power’
FACEBOOK is reducing political content in News Feeds. After months of tests, the tech giant has said it will be expanding the feature to more countries. 1 Your News Feed may be about to changeCredit: Alamy The small test started in the US, Canada,…
Australia May Be First To Force Google & Facebook To Pay For News
The Australian Government Friday unveiled a draft of the new mandatory code of conduct that would force tech giants Google and Facebook to pay for news on their platforms. The document developed by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission…
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around the…
The Case for a Facebook Breakup Still Stands
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In a historic session Wednesday, the CEOs of four of the world’s biggest technology giants appeared before a House subcommittee to answer wide-ranging questions about their anticompetitive practices and allegations they…
Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his testimony during the big tech antitrust hearing by suggesting Apple, Amazon, Google, and TikTok may be bigger threats than Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tech antitrust hearing YouTube/House Judiciary Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed to the success of rivals like Apple, Google, and TikTok as evidence that there’s plenty of competition in the tech industry. Zuckerberg…
NY Rep. Jerry Nadler Blasts Facebook, Google For Stealing News & Destroying Journalism Jobs At Antitrust Hearing
Disappearing journalism jobs were among the many ills laid at the feet of top tech execs Wednesday as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) at an antitrust hearing lamented the decline of local news and recalled a massive mess up by…
Lawmakers question the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon
The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google’s parent company Alphabet are all testifying today before the US House of Representatives’ Antitrust Subcommittee. It’s extremely rare for one of the tech giants’ CEOs to testify…
Tech bosses from Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook face US Congress
The tech industry’s “Big Tobacco moment”, where the bosses of four of the biggest companies – Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google – are giving evidence to the US Congress in Washington today. The House of…