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Mark Zuckerberg Sent An Apology Letter About Myanmar. These NGOs Called It “Grossly Insufficient.”
Facebook’s CEO is expected to testify in front of US senators on Tuesday. At least one may ask about his company’s role in spreading hate speech in a country that’s been beset by ethnic conflict.
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Nasim Aghdam Opened Fire On YouTube Because She Was “Upset” With Its Policies And Practices
Police said Nasim Aghdam visited a gun range the morning before she opened fire at the YouTube headquarters in California.
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Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
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The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Wanted His New Company To Work With Trump Campaign’s Manager
“We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data.”
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The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted To Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, recently came clean about his role in creating the controversial data mining outfit. BuzzFeed News has obtained communications that show what he was thinking when he went about creating a similar company to Cambridge Analytica and why being “evil pays more.”
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Facebook’s Board Said It Supports Zuckerberg And Sandberg In The Cambridge Analytica Crisis
As the furor over the controversial data firm’s abuse of Facebook data raged on, its suddenly embattled top brass received a full-throated endorsement Wednesday afternoon.
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These Men Helped Create Cambridge Analytica. Here Is Their New, Very Similar Startup.
Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.” Two of his associates who also helped build that tool have been quietly building another company to analyze and influence human behavior.
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Uber Is Being Challenged For Trying To Send a Sexual Assault Lawsuit to Arbitration
Nine women are suing Uber, alleging they were sexually assaulted by drivers on the platform. Their lawyers are challenging the company’s plan to settle the lawsuit behind closed doors.
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YouTube Said It Will Link To Wikipedia Excerpts On Conspiracy Videos — But It Didn’t Tell Wikipedia
“Information cues” — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.
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Want To Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project.
Copying other companies’ work and intellectual property can generate big paydays for hucksters in the cryptocurrency world. One company has maintained a $2.3 billion valuation despite widespread allegations of plagiarism.
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Twitter Is Still Allowing Scammers To Hijack Verified Accounts To Take People’s Money
Unlike past versions of Twitter cryptocurrency phishing, @TronFoundationl is different: It has a verification badge, the blue check mark that Twitter uses to delineate famous or important accounts from imposters.
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This Man Helped Peter Thiel Demolish Gawker
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel did not come up with the idea to covertly fund lawsuits against Gawker Media. That credit belongs to an Oxford-educated man who Thiel’s inner circle calls “Mr. A.”
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Federal Grand Jury In Special Counsel Probe Indicts Russian Troll Farm And Individuals For 2016 Election Meddling
“A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment on Feb. 16, 2018, against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities accused of violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.”
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Scammers Are Impersonating Elon Musk And Donald Trump To Take Your Bitcoin
And they’re using automated networks of bot accounts to do it.
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Waymo Settles Trade Secrets Lawsuit With Uber And Everyone Is Friends Again
The surprise settlement, in which Waymo obtained 0.34% of Uber’s equity, valued at $245 million at a $72 billion valuation, comes four days after the start of the trial.
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Greed, Bros, “Cheat Codes”: Travis Kalanick Testifies For The Second Day In Waymo V. Uber
“Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
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Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Grilled In Self-Driving Car Suit
Uber’s former CEO resigned in June, but answered questions under oath on Tuesday about his role in acquiring a self-driving car startup that’s now at the center of a billion-dollar lawsuit.
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Waymo’s Trial Against Uber Kicks Off With Accusations Of Cheating
After 11 months of waiting, the closely watched legal battle between two tech heavyweights began on Monday. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is expected on the stand on Tuesday.
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The Latest “Bitcoin” Ploy? Faking A Super Bowl Ad Rejection.
“It wasn’t rejected because it was never reviewed because the company never made a buy,” an NBC spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
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Peter Thiel Bid For Gawker.com. Now He May Want To Turn It Into A Conservative Investigative News Site.
The billionaire venture capitalist and Donald Trump backer also said that the Washington Post is “an arm of the Democratic Party.”
