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Facebook considered ad-free subscriptions after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg ...
Instagram’s Systrom Says Zuckerberg Saw App’s Growth as ‘Threat’
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that his fledgling photo-sharing app could have succeeded without being acquired ...
Leveraging social media as a strategic tool for reputation management during a crisis
In today’s digital landscape, social media has become a powerful tool for organizations to shape public perception, manage ...
Meta’s US Antitrust Trial: What You’ve Missed So Far
The FTC wants Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp to create a more level playing field in the social app market.
Meta’s day in court: could the FTC trial break the internet’s center of gravity?
A seismic shift in the social media universe looms, with the trial’s outcome having the potential to redefine how platforms ...
Fallow: Ian Maleney on migrating his literary journal from web to print
After 10 years in the frictionless space of the browser, it’s honestly kind of fun to be worrying about ink and paper and ...
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Gmail's third-party app policy: Security experts explain the risks
Gmail itself ended the practice of using the content of people's emails for ad targeting in July 2017 ... ends of the spectrum." What made Cambridge Analytica such a large-scale disaster was ...
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Nobody expected it to rain bitcoin, but the federal budget had a big tech-shaped hole
At the risk of resurrecting memories of the Coalition's famous attack ad of 2022 — devastatingly ... and social media giant Meta over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, among others.
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Carole Cadwalladr unveils the dark side of social media information gathering at Longford festival
Carole is a Pulitzer nominated investigative journalist who broke the story of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's illegal ...