At Facebook, every Friday at 4 p.m., CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosts a Q&A session with his 16,000 employees at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters. While these meetings are intended to be casual and strictly internal, Zuckerberg handles them with great care (given the sheer size of his audience and the increasing chance of whistleblowers lately) by…
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FEDS EYE ZUCK IN PRIVACY PROBE…
Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users’ personal information have set their sights on the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, exploring his past statements on privacy and weighing whether to seek new, heightened oversight of his leadership. The discussions about how to hold Zuckerberg accountable for Facebook’s data lapses have come in the context of…
NEVERENDING CRISIS…
Facebook’s Crisis Management Algorithm Runs on Outrage One year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg says the company really cares. Then why is there an endless cycle of fury and apology? By Sarah Frier Last year, a Facebook user in Sri Lanka posted an angry message to the social network. “Kill all the Muslim…
ZUCK V COOK: TECH ROYALS RUMBLE APPLE ‘THE ENABLER’
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Tim Cook has rarely missed an opportunity in the past year to hit Facebook about its privacy issues. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t been shy about hitting back, accusing Apple of ignoring the poorest of the world’s consumers. But on Wednesday, the brewing cold war between the two companies turned…
How an Experimental Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Could Clobber Facebook
Less than one week. That’s all the time needed for Jay Edelson to swing into action in March and file suit upon splashy headlines that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users in the interest of swinging the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. Edelson was hardly the only class-action…
Inside FACEBOOK ‘cult-like’ workplace…
Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time More than a dozen former Facebook employees detailed how the company’s leadership and its performance review system has created a culture where any dissent is discouraged. Employees say Facebook’s stack ranking performance review system drives employees to push…
