Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered making deals with third-party developers just to help him find out how much users’ data is worth, NBC News reported on Tuesday. The report, which cites 4,000 leaked pages of internal documents, shines a light on the way senior company executives viewed attaching a dollar sign to sensitive user data, despite Facebook’s public commitment…

Britain Proposes Broad New Powers to Regulate Internet Content

A growing number of countries are now eager to punish Facebook and other internet companies for harmful material on their platforms. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/business/britain-internet-regulations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Editorial Observer: Facebook Wants a Faux Regulator for Internet Speech. It Won’t Happen.

Not in the United States, anyway. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/opinion/facebook-content-moderation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash

In a city swollen by the wealth of the tech industry, the rich and poor live very separate lives. But sometimes they connect through the garbage. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/us/trash-pickers-san-francisco-zuckerberg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Mark Zuckerberg’s Call to Regulate Facebook, Explained

Here’s why the Facebook chief executive invited Congress to regulate his company in a post on Saturday. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-regulation-explained.html?partner=rss&emc=rss