“My understanding is that that post did not necessarily violate that call to arms policy at the time,” said Zuckerberg, referring to the Kenosha Guard’s calls for people to “take up arms” and defend the city from “evil thugs.”
Zuckerberg acknowledged criticism of Facebook by President-elect Joe Biden but said the company shared some of the Biden team's same concerns about social media
WhatsApp, which counts India as its biggest market with more than 400 million users, had been running a peer-to-peer payments service with limited users for over two years, awaiting regulatory approvals.
Lawmakers are split on ways to hold Big Tech accountable under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act - which protects companies from liability over content posted by users but also lets the firms shape political discourse.
Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter Inc's Jack Dorsey and Google's Sundar Pichai will be asked about how they monitor and moderate political content online.
I have long said that Big Tech poses the single greatest threat to our First Amendment rights and the future of democracy.
The current and former Facebook employees said Das’s intervention on behalf of Singh is part of a broader pattern of favoritism by Facebook towards Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu hard-liners
The Federal Trade Commission met privately on Thursday to discuss a probe while state attorneys general under the leadership of New York’s Letitia James have been scrutinizing the company for potential threats to competition, the newspaper reported.
The antitrust subcommittee on Tuesday released a report on Big Tech's abuses of market power but stopped short of naming specific companies or acquisitions that must be broken up.
"I would be comfortable with unwinding that. I think that's the right answer," he said.
Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google’s Sundar Pichai will appear.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the Nov. 2018 deletion of 2.77 million audio files included recordings of traders subpoenaed in Dec. 2017 for a probe.
The civil fine was imposed against Citibank NA, Citigroup Energy Inc and Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
“We are committed to cooperating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry and answering the questions the agency may have,” the social media company said in a statement.
(The board) may simply act as a smokescreen behind which Facebook's executives will maintain ultimate control over its content moderation decision-making process.
The members said the board's powers, as defined by its charter, limit it to merely enforcing current content policies the company has adopted.
Using the exchanges, lawmakers got Zuckerberg to acknowledge that he saw photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp as competitors when Facebook acquired them.
US Representative David Cicilline, a Democrat and chair of the antitrust subcommittee, began by accusing Google of theft.
Facebook's Zuckerberg took a series of questions about the company's purchase of Instagram in 2012, and whether it was acquired because it was a threat.
The testimony from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook, which was released Tuesday, portrays four chief executives who are looking over their shoulders at competitors who could render them obsolete.
the American way: we started with nothing and provided better products that people find valuable.
He added that the company competes as "vigorously as we can within the rules." Also testifying are the CEOs of Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc.
"Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation's History! #RIGGEDELECTION," Trump wrote.
The Facebook label, which does not dispute Trump's claim, redirects users to details from a US government website on how to vote in the 2020 elections.
The audit report, which Facebook commissioned two years ago, pointed to what the authors described as a series of harmful decisions.
The findings come at a time when some 900 advertisers, including major brands such as Coca-Cola, have joined a boycott promoted by major US civil rights groups.
Facebook on Thursday launched Threads, an image-centric messaging app designed to weave tight circles of Instagram friends together, while ramping up its challenge to rival Snapchat. Threads is its own separate smartphone app, but ties into lists of "clos
The United States, Britain and Australia have called on Facebook to give authorities the ability to circumvent encryption used in its messaging services - a measure opposed by the social media giant.
Facebook on Monday said it had made a deal to buy a startup working on ways to command computers or other devices using thought instead of taps, swipes, or keystrokes. CTRL-labs will become part of Facebook Reality Labs with an aim at perfecting the techn
With Imran Khan as the Prime Minister of the country, workers' remittance is an interesting data-point as a lot was expected in terms of Khan's popularity and support among the overseas Pakistanis. A one liner: the love did not translate into any gigantic
Facebook on August 20 confirmed plans for a News Tab that will be edited by seasoned journalists, in a departure from its longstanding practice of letting algorithms dictate a user's experience. A human team will select relevant, reliable breaking and top
Facebook Inc's messaging service WhatsApp is in talks with multiple Indonesian digital payment firms to offer their mobile transaction services, in a bid to tap the nation's fast growing e-commerce sector, people familiar with the matter said. Indonesia c
Serena Williams will begin her quest for a seventh US Open title and record-tying 24th Grand Slam victory against long-time rival Maria Sharapova in the US Open women's singles draw unveiled Thursday.
Facebook, under pressure to ramp up privacy rules across its platform, said on Tuesday it was rolling out a tool allowing users to control data that it receives from other apps and websites about their online activity. The new tool is to give clients acce
The London Metal Exchange is poised to extend its closing open-outcry trading sessions for all metals after volumes jumped in a three-month trial, denting expectations of an eventual move to full electronic trading.
Facebook has paid hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe snippets of users' conversations, US media reported on Tuesday, amid heightened scrutiny of the social network's data collection practices. Facebook acknowledged the transcriptions, whi
Anett Kontaveit spoiled Maria Sharapova's return from injury Monday, rallying to beat the five-time Grand Slam champion 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the WTA tournament in Toronto. Sharapova, competing for the first time since retiring from her first-round match at Wi
Fraudsters are out to cash in on interest in Facebook-backed digital currency Libra, hawking bogus buying opportunities at online venues including the social network itself. Libra is to launch next year, overseen by an association based in Europe, but as
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday reaffirmed his commitment to the social network's quest to launch Libra cryptocurrency despite pushback from governments and critics. Facebook last month unveiled plans for Libra in an announcement tha
Facebook on Wednesday reported that its profit in the recently ended quarter plummeted due to costs of a US privacy settlement in a quarterly update that was largely better than expected.