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Big Tech Backlash March 11, 2019

FTC response to Facebook and Google's privacy abuses slammed as 'toothless' and 'failed' by GOP lawmaker

A Republican senator excoriated the Federal Trade Commission for failing to protect consumers' privacy from data-hungry Big Tech companies that have suffered a series of scandals and breaches over the years. 

Big Tech Backlash February 25, 2019

Facebook moderators have PTSD-like symptoms from horrifying and violent images, fringe content

Facebook's low-paid army of content moderators suffer PTSD-like symptoms, are subjected to poor working conditions and deal with micro-managed bathroom breaks — while viewing some of most vile and fringe content posted to the social network every day — according to a scathing new report. 

Big Tech Backlash February 18, 2019

Facebook slammed as 'digital gangsters' in UK fake news report

Facebook knowingly broke privacy and competition laws and behaved like "digital gangsters," according to a scathing new report on fake news and misinformation. 

Big Tech Backlash February 11, 2019

Facebook must take 'real action' against disinformation, Mozilla Foundation and 32 civil society groups demand

Facebook needs to stop paying lip service to the fight against disinformation and take more concrete actions.

Big Tech Backlash January 24, 2019

Zuckerberg’s mentor: Facebook is 'public health' hazard and it should be broken up

One of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mentors has soured on the social network and now thinks of it in the same category as addictive public health problems like smoking. 

Big Tech Backlash January 17, 2019

Facebook removes 512 Russian accounts and pages that were spreading disinformation

Facebook uncovered and cut ties with hundreds of fake accounts tied to Russia that were engaging in inauthentic behavior, the tech giant announced Thursday. 

Facebook January 9, 2019

Facebook's Zuckerberg to host 'public discussions' on the future of tech in society

Is it time for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to retire his annual personal challenge?

Big Tech Backlash January 1, 2019

Facebook’s Zuckerberg blasted for ‘out of touch’ year-end post after scandal-plagued 2018

After a year plagued by privacy scandals, hate speech controversies, the viral spread of disinformation and the public airing of his company's internal communication, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his year-end note to focus on the positive ー drawing the scorn of critics who blasted the billionaire as "tone deaf" and "out of touch."

Big Tech Backlash December 28, 2018

Facebook's massive, secret rulebook for policing speech reveals inconsistencies, gaps and biases

Facebook is attempting to tackle misinformation and hate that its platform has enabled with a massive, byzantine and secret document of rules packed with spreadsheets and power point slides that gets updated regularly for its global content moderators. 

Big Tech Backlash December 20, 2018

Facebook blasted by privacy advocates, lawmakers over data-sharing agreements

Facebook drew widespread, scathing criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday for not disclosing the extent of its wide-ranging data-sharing deals that gave other tech firms access to private user data and information.

Big Tech Backlash December 19, 2018

Facebook gave tech companies 'intrusive' access to users' private messages and personal data, internal documents reveal

Facebook gave other big tech companies "intrusive access" to the personal data of its 2.2. billion users — in some instances to private messages, usernames and contact information — raising questions about whether the company ran afoul of a 2011 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.