It seems near impossible to keep control of our personal data – and Facebook does anything but help.
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Do you think you’ve set up your Facebook account so that only your friends can see your information? Think again…
Some of the Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Several critical Canadian elections are ahead. Here’s what governments and social media companies must do to assure Canadians that their online personal data won’t be used to manipulate results.
Under fire: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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A scholar of digital trust evaluates Facebook’s current efforts and proposes some improvements the company could make.
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What’s behind Facebook’s decision to cut down on news content in people’s newsfeeds?
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Can philanthropy of the super-rich ever be better than taxation?
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Facebook has been used at times for antisocial behavior. However, such behaviors are neither unique nor new.
Jeff Bezos (right), now the world’s second-richest person, is charting a different course for his philanthropy than Bill Gates (left), the richest, and Warren Buffett (center), who has fallen to third place.
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Amazon’s founder turned to Twitter to crowdsource ideas for his charitable giving. This populist approach and his preference for short-term results set Jeff Bezos apart from other mega-donors.
Donald Trump might not spend much time on social media, but he has an acute understanding of how virality in media works.
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There are four key things Donald Trump’s election tells us about the state of journalism today.
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Tech firm CEOs keep control by holding investors at arm’s length. It is damaging corporate governance.
Facebook still needs humans after all.
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Facebook wants to stop violent videos appearing in its feeds, but we must ensure human moderators don’t suffer.
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Facebook has a new, depressingly incompetent strategy for tackling fake news.
Mark Zuckerberg is, quite famously, a college dropout. But his case is the exception – not the rule.
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While the media glamorizes famous college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the reality is that most successful people in the U.S. went to – and finished – college.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg argues his social network can support more civic engagement.
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While Facebook’s Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology’s promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
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The Facebook CEO’s vision for a digital future still needs a little work.
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The billionaire digital tycoon has a vision for a bright future. His bright future, mainly.
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Zuckerberg is just the latest in a long line of West Coast capitalists to purchase a slice of Hawaii.
Facebook has committed to remedial action over its ‘fake news’ problem.
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Our democratic edifice rests on the informed voter. Fake news is the concrete cancer gnawing away at the structural integrity of our society.
A campaign for Los Angeles Unified School District school board candidates.
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The involvement of large wealthy donors in local schools is influencing who gets elected to govern on school boards. Why does it matter?
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We shouldn’t scoff at the Facebook founder’s goal of eradicating disease.
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Zuckerburg wants to plough billions into personalised learning, but his way may not be the right way.