Facebook announced Tuesday that it had removed more than 650 pages, groups, and accounts for what the social media giant termed “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that originated in Iran. The company also said that, unrelated to the Iran activity, it had … Read More
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is calling on other tech companies to ban more sites like InfoWars, and says the survival of American democracy depends on it. “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses … Read More
Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant’s market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock … Read More
Chamath Palihapitiya. Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive, said during a November interview at Stanford that social networks were “destroying how society works.” Other early Facebook executives have criticized the company in recent weeks as well. … Read More