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Frances Haugen: From whistleblower to watchdog
Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower, is ready for her second act. Nine months after the former project manager at the world’s largest social network published troves of internal corporate...
View ArticleMeta’s Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy suit
Meta’s Facebook settled a long-running lawsuit in a U.S. court seeking damages for letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access the private data of users. The preliminary settlement...
View ArticleFacebook parent company Meta lays off 11,000 staff
Meta Platforms, the company that owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, will lay off 11,000 workers or about 13 percent of its global workforce, the biggest Big Tech job losses so far following...
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Stop the killer robots! Musk-backed lobbyists fight to save Europe from bad AI
A lobby group backed by Elon Musk and associated with a controversial ideology popular among tech billionaires is fighting to prevent killer robots from terminating humanity, and it’s taken hold of...
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‘Succession’ has nothing on Davos: Elite conclave mulls next leader
DAVOS, Switzerland — It’s the political race everyone is afraid to talk about. For 52 years the World Economic Forum has been synonymous with its founder and executive chair Klaus Schwab, whose humble...
View ArticleTo go or not to go? Von der Leyen’s COVID committee dilemma
There won’t be any severed horses’ heads but the European Commission president may soon receive an offer that she can’t refuse — at least without causing an institutional dust-up. Last week, the...
View ArticleEU to Zuckerberg: Explain yourself over Instagram pedophile network
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton wants Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain and take “immediate” action over a recently exposed large pedophile network on Instagram. Instagram has been...
View ArticleElon Musk wants cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg (yes, really)
Billionaire entrepreneur and Twitter owner Elon Musk is picking a fight with Mark Zuckerberg — and the Facebook chief is up for it. Musk (on Twitter, naturally) began the spat Wednesday by laughing...
View ArticleEurope’s digital ‘enforcer’ takes EU tech rulebook to Silicon Valley
The European Union is firing a last warning shot at Silicon Valley titans ahead of the incoming rules to police social media platforms. Europe’s digital Commissioner Thierry Breton is in California to...
View ArticleMeta agrees to July ‘stress test’ on new EU content rules
Meta has agreed to a July “stress test” on new EU content rules, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said late Friday after meeting with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in California. The test is a...
View ArticleMusk limits number of posts Twitter users can view per day
Twitter users will face new limitations on the number of tweets they can view per day, according to a tweet from the company’s billionaire owner Elon Musk on Saturday. “To address extreme levels of...
View ArticleZuckerberg’s Twitter rival Threads reaches 10M users in 7 hours
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that his Threads app, a micro-blogging competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter, had more than 10 million sign-ups in just seven hours. Announcing the Threads...
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Europe’s Big Tech rules come at a cost. Look at Threads and Bard
PARIS — For years, Europe boasted its digital rules — on privacy, on social media, on antitrust — would force others to follow its lead. But when push came to shove, the rest of the world, or, at...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in Latvijas Avize, Latvia, July 3, 2023 | By Gatis Sluka First published on Politicalcartoons.com, Croatia, July 3, 2023 | By Nikola Listes First published on Caglecartoons.com, U.S.,...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published in The Boston Globe, U.S., July 12, 2023 | By Christopher Weyant First published on Caglecartoons.com, Bulgaria, July 11, 2023 | By Christo Komarnitski First published on Patreon.com,...
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The Westminster-Big Tech revolving door keeps spinning
LONDON — Seeking influence in the corridors of power, Big Tech firms can’t get enough of Britain’s leading politicos. From former policy advisers to ex-spin doctors and even the odd journalist, the...
View ArticleZuckerberg and Musk trade zingers over cage fight plans
Billionaire-entrepreneur Elon Musk wants to livestream a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter — but the Meta chief isn’t having it. After Musk said...
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Musk vs. Zuckerberg: Round-by-round scoring of the cage fight of the century
Musk vs. Zuckerberg: Round-by-round scoring of the cage fight of the century It’s just not a fight without the pre-fight hype. Photo-illustration by Giulia Poloni/POLITICO (source images via Getty and...
View ArticleItaly wants Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage fight
You’ve heard of the Thrilla in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle. Well, how about the Melee in Milan or the Fracas in Florence? Italy is primed to host the proposed cage fight between tech...
View ArticleZuckerberg calls off Musk cage fight: ‘Elon isn’t serious’
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has called off his cage fight with fellow tech billionaire Elon Musk, accusing the Tesla CEO of wasting his time. “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time...
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