Tag: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook blocks researchers from scrutinising data

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Facebook has suspended the accounts of US researchers who had been scrutinising its role in misinformation, digital advertising and election campaigns with a tool that catalogued the social media...

Self-regulation has been a disaster

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The only way to mitigate the consistent and persistent “negative externalities” of Facebook and other social media platforms is through government intervention. Self-regulation has been a disaster for the...

Facebook’s long march to China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Facebook has been bending over every which way to somehow get back into China after the country’s so-called Great Firewall was significantly jacked up in July 2009, blocking western...

ACCC muscles up to Facebook

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog will use its compulsory information gathering powers to obtain data from tech giants including Google and Facebook as part of its wide-ranging “world-first” inquiry...

Chaos Monkeys and Russian trolls

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The political power building inside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook is probably already too difficult to constrain says the man who led the adtech team...