Apple CEO Tim Cook on stage during an Apple event in September 2018. Valentina Palladino With Apple’s big app-tracking policy change just around the corner, Chinese companies drew a warning from Cupertino that their efforts to circumvent the change will not be successful. At the same time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared to shift his […]
Enlarge / Facebook co-founder, chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after testifying before a combined Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2018, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees close to him, “we need to inflict pain” on Apple […]
Getty Images If you follow US tech, you’re probably getting a sense of deja vu. Senators are about to grill Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. It’s only three weeks since both chief executives testified. But since then the political landscape has wildly altered. It is Democrat voices now, not Republicans, that arguably pose […]
As the ads boycott grows, Mark Zuckerberg shows no sign of backing down. “My guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough” the Facebook chief executive has said. Campaigners accuse the tech firm of being too slow and reluctant to remove some hateful content. But Zuckerberg added: “We’re not […]
In response, dozens of Facebook employees participated in a virtual walkout on Monday, and many more expressed outrage in internal forums and on Twitter. At least two employees have resigned, according to public posts and tweets and conversations with workers. “Open and honest discussion has always been a part of Facebook’s culture,” spokesperson Liz Bourgeois […]
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visits Capitol Hill on Sept. 19. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) September 19 at 8:08 PM Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers in a private meeting this week that his company’s controversial digital currency would not be launched anywhere in the world until it receives the backing of regulators in the United […]
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photo taken for the NY Division of Criminal Justice Services’ sex offender registryReuters Elon Musk introduced Mark Zuckerberg to Jeffrey Epstein at a dinner a few years ago, Vanity Fair reports. The incident illustrates how the disgraced financier rehabilitated his image among high society after he went to jail in […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Facebook said they will not take down a video of Mark Zuckerberg created using artificial intelligence, called a “deepfake.” Technology
Facebook has said it will not remove a manipulated video of its chief Mark Zuckerberg from Instagram, in which he appears to credit a secretive organisation for his success. The clip is a “deepfake”, made by AI software that uses photos of a person to create a video of them in action. Facebook had previously […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks ago, Facebook declined to remove a doctored video in which the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, seemed to drunkenly slur her speech. Over the weekend, two British artists released a doctored video of Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, as a sly comment on the spread of false information online. […]
An attempt to make Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg step down as the company’s chairman has failed. At the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday, shareholders had the opportunity to vote on Mr Zuckerberg’s leadership. Mr Zuckerberg is both Facebook’s chief executive and the chairman of its board of directors. He controls about 60% of the […]
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MENLO PARK, Calif. — On Tuesday, Facebook literally got a new face. The company’s “big blue” app is undergoing a redesign: its iconic blue bordering will be replaced by sleek white trim in the coming weeks, and the service will be redesigned around groups and around private messages. Symbolically, the redesign — announced at Facebook’s […]
A new exhibition casts tech moguls as mythological figures.Sebastian Errazuriz Studio A striking new art exhibition of 3D-printed statues shows some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest and most famous figures as mythological characters. Artist Sebastian Errazuriz re-imagines modern Silicon Valley luminaries including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, but through a pretty pessimistic lens. The […]