Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Calls for management changes dominated Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. Several attendees asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg to cede some control. The shareholders said the changes were needed so that the company can more capably combat the spread of misinformation and hate speech on the social network. "We are sick […]
Everything we know about what’s going on inside of Facebook right now (FB)
AP Photo/Francois Mori Facebook has had a tumultuous few years. There have been bright spots, like the growth of Instagram, and big new initiatives, like its pivot to privacy. There have also been plenty of challenges, with calls to break the company up, and investors at one stage wondering if COO Sheryl Sandberg might leave […]
Years of Mark Zuckerberg’s old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it ‘mistakenly deleted’ them. (FB)
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Some old Facebook posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared, and the company says it "mistakenly deleted" them. "A few years ago some of Mark’s posts were mistakenly deleted due to technical errors. The work required to restore them would have been extensive and not guaranteed to be successful so we didn’t […]
Mark Zuckerberg has started his 2019 challenge of doing public debates — here are the highlights from the first one (FB)
Mark Zuckerberg took part in an interview with Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain. It’s part of the billionaire Facebook CEO’s challenge for 2019 to take part in public debates about the impact of tech on society. The discussion touched on a number of topics, including privacy and the blockchain. He also had one awkward […]
Two words in Facebook’s latest regulatory filing shows how worried the company is about what it’s doing to people (FB)
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Facebook’s latest quarterly report with the SEC contains a little-noticed update to its risk factors. For the first time ever, Facebook acknowledges that concerns about users’ well-being could hurt its business. It’s a striking change from the company’s altruistic boasts of the past. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has talked a lot about […]
A defiant Mark Zuckerberg says people are focusing on the ‘negative’ aspects of Facebook’s impact on the world (FB)
Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks people are overly focusing on the "negative" aspects of Facebook’s impact on the world. In a post marking Facebook’s 15th birthday, the 34-year-old billionaire published a post defending the influence of the internet — and, by extension, Facebook. Facebook has been beset by constant scandals over the […]