In May, Facebook said it was going to redesign the website and bring dark mode to its website and mobile apps. While it began testing dark mode for its Android app in August, it has now started rolling out a beta version of its website with that...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in the midst of a public relations blitz as criticism of the company he founded mounts in Washington.Zuckerberg in recent weeks has made a flurry of public and private appearances to make the case for his company...
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Facebook is willing to reverse course on its plans to tie its digital currency project to a synthetic currency tied to a basket of global currencies.
Reuters is reporting that Facebook’s head of the Libra project, David Marcus, told a group of...
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Sen. Oley Larsen, R-Minot, speaks before a legislative committee in Bismarck during in 2015. TOM STROMME, Bismarck Tribune
A Republican state Senator from Minot has shared on Facebook a photo he claims is of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar...
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Democrats may be playing it too safe when it comes to political advertising, The New York Times reports.
Laura Edelson, a researcher at New York University who tracks political advertising on Facebook compared President Trump's re-election camapign...
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One of the lessons of working with remote teams on the African continent or traveling around Africa is that the internet is not the internet everywhere you go. It is true everyone has Google, Facebook and WhatsApp like elsewhere, but the quality and...
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon dinged Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra, saying it was a "neat idea" that won't happen.
Facebook announced the currency in June, with the idea that people all over the world could use it to pay for services online.
But...
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New York Times: “On any given day, the Trump campaign is plastering ads all over Facebook, YouTube and the millions of sites served by Google, hitting the kind of incendiary themes — immigrant invaders, the corrupt media — that play best...
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This week Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in which he extolled “giving everyone a voice” and fighting “to uphold a wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible.” That sounds great, of course! Freedom of expression is...
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Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) project to establish a digital currency -- which will go by the name of Libra -- is officially underway, but the much-talked-about multi-million dollar initiative has already had more than its share of hiccups. Earlier this...
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Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, lock down who can see what you're up to.
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“Prosecutor Munam Bashir Chaudhry told AFP Ali’s case is the first to be tried under a section of the cybercrime laws, which were passed in 2016, pertaining to hate speech.” Such laws are coming to the United States, courtesy of...
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Andrew Marantz on Mark Zuckerberg’s recent speech at Georgetown University, and the Facebook C.E.O.’s conception of free speech.
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1. How much could Facebook raise through price discrimination?
2. Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller.
3. Father of Abhijit Banerjee.
4. Alan Viard’s survey of the issues behind wealth taxation.
5. A British DARPA.
6. New Christopher...
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It covers privacy, Facebook, security vs. competition, Huawei, the proposed digital tax, and recent OECD corporate tax proposals. Here is the video.
The post My recent talk at OECD appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
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A nameless FedEx worker has become an unlikely hero for Fox News viewers by rearranging someone else’s pillows after delivering a package.
On Wednesday, an Ohio Facebook user named Jackie Szabo posted a 24-second clip from a doorbell cam that...
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Mark Zuckerberg ululated at Georgetown University on Facebook’s prioritization of free speech, which definitely sounds better than ululating on his bidness model of selling your data to people who want to use you.
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook...
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Venomous puss caterpillars have returned to Florida and other states. (Photo Credit: Bri Oteri / Facebook)
They may look cute and fuzzy, but you do not want to touch venomous puss caterpillars: These critters have returned to parts of...
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CNN hosted a Democratic debate on Tuesday night in Ohio with 12 of the 17 candidates.
For the first time, moderators asked a question about the hot topic of breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook.
Elizabeth Warren has made breaking...
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Mozilla was one of the first brands to publicly denounce advertising on Facebook in the wake of the company's Cambridge Analytica scandal — and has still not returned.
In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider, CMO Jascha Kaykas-Wolff...
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