The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is said to have personally overseen changes on the social media platform’s content policy that would allow the site to ‘go easy’ on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the website run by him, InfoWars. InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned Jones who was … Read more
Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Nine and News Corp just a day after banning news on its Australian site. The US social media giant blocked Australian users from seeing and sharing local news last Thursday, in response to a new law to make tech giants pay media companies for news content on their sites. … Read more
How do you ‘unfriend’ a whole country? The giant Facebook conglomerate has found the answer. Never mind that Australia is a key Western ally with a democratically elected government. Facebook has simply turned its face against the Australian public and is censoring what they can see in a dispute over who pays for news. No doubt … Read more
Facebook is taking money from China to promote Communist propaganda which denies atrocities against the Uyghur Muslims, an investigation has revealed. The Silicon Valley behemoth pocketed Beijing’s cash to promote articles which downplayed what Washington has called a genocide in Xinjiang, according to The Press Gazette. China Daily and CGTN – the state-backed TV channel … Read more
The former CEO of Facebook has slammed Mark Zuckerberg‘s ‘sad’ decision to block news in Australia, while encouraging Aussies to delete the app out of protest. The US social media giant has infuriated Australians after blocking them from reading and sharing local news in response to a world-first law to make tech giants pay media … Read more
Google and Facebook are ‘very close’ to agreeing deal with Australian media to pay for news as the tech giants scramble to avoid regulation Australia is poised to force digital companies to pay for news content Facebook and Google had claimed it would change the face of the internet But the standoff appears to have … Read more
Facebook is reportedly building its own version of the audio-only social app Clubhouse less than a week after Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the new platform Clubhouse is an audio-chat social media app that has gained popularity Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a show in the app Sunday Now, a report says … Read more
Pictured: Tobias Ellwood, Chairman of the Defence select committee Few people today have heard of Standard Oil, the giant petrochemical company that a century ago made its founder John Rockefeller wealthier than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and Google billionaires Sergey Brin and Larry Page are today – combined. The secret of its … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance on the invite-only Clubhouse app where he dished about his firm’s progress in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology. Under the name ‘Zuck23,’ Zuckerberg said ‘we should be teleporting, not transporting’ and believes the futuristic work being done at Facebook’s Reality Labs group could soon make … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance on the invite-only Clubhouse app where he dished about his firm’s progress in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology. Under the name ‘Zuck23,’ Zuckerberg said ‘we should be teleporting, not transporting’ and believes the futuristic work being done at Facebook’s Reality Labs group could soon make … Read more