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Paul Ceglia's Big Time Law Firm Drops Him In His Case To Claim Ownership Of A...

When Paul Ceglia refiled his lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that he's entitled to at least 50% (and perhaps more) of the company due to an agreement Zuckerberg supposedly signed in the very early...

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Original Contract Used By Paul Ceglia To Claim Facebook Ownership... Doesn't...

The latest chapter in the bizarre story of Paul Ceglia claiming a right to more than half of Facebook is that Facebook -- who has previously claimed that Ceglia is nothing but a fraud -- says that in...

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Paul Ceglia To Facebook: I Didn't Forge A Contract, You Did!

We just wrote about how, during the discovery process in the lawsuit in which Paul Ceglia claims he only recently discovered a contract giving him more than 50% of Facebook, Facebook found an original...

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Is Facebook Selling Out The Internet?

In newspapers across the country today, a who's who of massively successful entrepreneurs are asking Congress not to pass SOPA or PROTECT IP. On the list of people signing: Marc Andreessen, co-founder...

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If You're Accused Of Trying To Scam Facebook Out Of 50%+ Of Its Equity,...

The case of Paul Ceglia, the guy who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract giving him at least half (and maybe up to 84%) of Facebook, keeps getting more ridiculous. As more and more details...

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Notable: Harvard Didn't Try To Claim Ownership Of Facebook

With the big Facebook IPO dominating the tech news, the folks over at the Boston Globe have highlighted a point that hasn't received much, if any, attention. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook (with the...

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Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Should Just Admit She Doesn't Understand Facebook's...

There's been some buzz today over the news that former Facebooker, Randi Zuckerberg, who's also the older sister to Mark Zuckerberg, is among the many people who don't understand Facebook's privacy...

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Innovators Break Stuff, Including The Rules: How Gates, Jobs & Zuckerberg...

In a conversation with some folks in the tech industry recently, someone pointed out that nearly every super famous entrepreneur likely could have, at some point, been legitimately accused of...

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Now That Paul Ceglia's Been Arrested For Fraud, Court Says It Can Probably...

This is hardly a surprise (other than the fact it took this long...), but since Paul Ceglia was arrested for fraud back in November after it became pretty clear that he had almost certainly forged the...

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Washington Post Quietly Backtrcks On Claim That Tech Companies Knowingly Gave...

The Next Web is noting that the Washington Post has quietly backtracked on its original claim that tech companies "participated knowingly" in the PRISM spying program. And, at the same time, some of...

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Mark Zuckerberg Says The US Has Become A Threat To, Rather Than A Champion...

Better late than never: it appears that Mark Zuckberberg is finally really pissed off about the NSA surveillance efforts. This comes in the wake of the recent reports that the NSA sought to build a...

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Zuckerberg Momentarily Curbs 'Hate Speech' Moderation Stupidity At Facebook...

Another "free speech" controversy has blown up at Facebook. "Free speech" in quotes because Facebook is a private company that can make it own rules about speech it's willing to tolerate, much less...

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Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks About Cambridge Analytica; It Won't Be Enough

It took way too long, but Mark Zuckerberg finally responded to the Cambridge Analytica mess on Wednesday afternoon. As we've discussed in a series of posts all week, this is a complex issue, where a...

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Wherein Facebook Loses Recess For Everyone

Hold on tight to those memories of all the good things the Internet has brought. SESTA has just passed the Senate, and at this point it's a clear legislative path to undermining Section 230, the law...

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Hey Mark Zuckerberg: Don't Lock Down Everyone's Data, Open It Up To Services...

As we've been discussing all week, a lot of people are reacting to the wrong thing in the whole Facebook / Cambridge Analytica mess. The problem was not that Facebook had an open API -- but that its...

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Broadband Industry Aims To Use Facebook Fracas To Saddle Silicon Valley With...

For years now, the nation's broadband industry has clung to one, consistent message: anti-competitive giants like Comcast are innocent, ultra-innovative daisies, and Silicon Valley companies are a...

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Ted Cruz Gets Section 230 All Wrong, While Zuck Claims He's Not Familiar With It

There's plenty to say about Mark Zuckerberg's first congressional hearing this week (like Senator Thune's thinly-veiled threat of more SESTA-like laws, or Senator Cantwell's strange, unfocused tangent...

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Facebook Ranking News Sources By Trust Is A Bad Idea... But No One At...

At some point I need to write a bigger piece on these kinds of things, though I've mentioned it here and there over the past couple of years. For all the complaints about how "bad stuff" is appearing...

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Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

Warning 1: I'm about to talk about an issue that has a lot of nuance in it and no clear "good" answers -- and it's also one that many people have already made up their minds on one way or the other,...

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Fugitive Fraudster Who Demanded Half Of Facebook Arrested After Three Years...

It's been a while since we last wrote about Paul Ceglia. If you don't recall, way back in 2010, Ceglia suddenly claimed that years earlier, he had hired Mark Zuckerberg to do some software...

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