Facebook's Use Of Smear Merchants Is The Norm, Not The Exception
So by now most people have probably read the New York Times deep dive into what can only be described as Facebook's deep well of internal dysfunction and self delusion. While there's a lot of...
View ArticleTo Obtain Documents About Facebook Data-Sharing, UK Gov't Seizes And Detains...
Something strange and disturbing happened in the UK this weekend. That it targeted pariah du jour Facebook doesn't make it any less bizarre or worrisome. The short story is this: peeved at being blown...
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UK Hosts Theatrical Facebook Hearings On 'Fake News'... Undermined By...
As you may have heard, the UK Parliament put on quite a show on Tuesday in what it claimed was an attempt to go after Facebook for its "fake news" problem. Of course, in the process, the hearings...
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Good For The World, But Not Good For Us: The Really Damning Bits Of The...
As expected, UK Parliament Member Damian Collins released a bunch of documents that he had previously seized under questionable circumstances. While he had revealed some details in a blatantly...
View ArticleFacebook's Latest Privacy Screwup Shows How Facebook's Worst Enemy Is Still...
There's another Facebook scandal story brewing today and, once again, it appears that Facebook's biggest enemy is the company itself and how it blunders into messes that were totally unnecessary. When...
View ArticleThere's One Encouraging Thought Buried In Zuckerberg's 2019 Challenge
Every year Mark Zuckerberg sets a "challenge" for himself for that year, which as many people have noted, Facebook has turned into a big PR vehicle for the company. We usually don't even bother to...
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Yes, Actually, There Is A Lot Of Good News In Zuckerberg's New Plans For...
On Wednesday morning, there was a flurry of discussion and articles concerning Mark Zuckerberg's giant new post, laying out a new strategy for Facebook. Having first read some of the commentary --...
View ArticleDo People Want A Better Facebook, Or A Dead Facebook?
The question in the title is one that I actually think is worth discussing, because seeing the reactions to both Mark Zuckerberg's announced plans for greater privacy in Facebook's messaging tools,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg To Congress: Okay, Fine, Please Regulate Me And Lock In My...
Let's get a few things out of the way: Facebook deserves much of the crap it's gotten over the past few years. Indifference to serious problems, bad management, and worse practices have put it at the...
View ArticleFacebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Calls For Facebook's Breakup... But Seems...
Lots of folks are talking about a new opinion piece in the New York Times by Chris Hughes, one of the small group of college buddies of Mark Zuckerberg who are often called "co-founders" of the...
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Facebook's 'Please Regulate Us' Tour Heads To France
On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg went to France, just in time for the French government to release a vague and broad proposal to regulate social media networks. Similar to Zuckerberg's pleas to Congress to...
View ArticleFacebook Tested With Deepfake Of Mark Zuckerberg: Company Leaves It Up
Over the last few weeks there's been a silly debate over whether or not Facebook made the right call in agreeing to leave up some manipulated videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that were slowed down...
View ArticleLaura Loomer Files Defamation Suit Against Facebook For Calling Her...
Having failed to convince a federal court that multiple social media services are engaged in a First Amendment-thwarting conspiracy against far right sideshows like Laura Loomer, Larry Klayman is back...
View ArticleDOJ Boss Joins UK, Australian Gov't In Asking Facebook To Ditch Its...
The DOJ seems to be handling its anti-encryption (a.k.a. "going dark") grief badly. I doubt it will ever reach "acceptance," but it is accelerating through the rest of the stages with alarming speed....
View ArticleFacebook's Failure To Stop TikTok Shows, Once Again, That Big Companies Often...
With all the recent talk of breaking up big tech in the news again lately, one of the most common refrains is that the big internet companies (mainly Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple) are so big...
View ArticleNY Times At It Again: Has To Run Massive Correction For All The Errors In...
The NY Times' Opinion Section continues its run of truly awful decisions lately. As we learned during the Bret Stephens "bedbug" fiasco, the NY Times deliberately chooses not to fact check its opinion...
View ArticleJoe Biden Can't Tell The Difference Between The 1st Amendment & Section 230;...
Joe Biden is the latest Democratic candidate for President interviewed by the NY Times editorial board, and if you're interested in tech policy, well, it's a doozy. Biden seems confused, misinformed,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Suggests Getting Rid Of Section 230; Maybe People Should Stop...
Well, we can add Mark Zuckerberg to the list of folks willing to toss Section 230 liability protections out the window -- contrary to the claims of many that Facebook is the leading supporter of that...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg's Ridiculously Wrong, Misleading, And Self-Serving Statements...
As we continue to deal with the fallout of our thin-skinned President throwing a hissy fit over Twitter daring to provide more context to conspiracy theory nonsense that Trump himself tweeted,...
View ArticleHouse Judiciary Spends 5.5 Hours Making Themselves Look Foolish, Without...
How was your Wednesday? I spent 5 and a half hours of mine watching the most inane and stupid hearing put on by Rep. David Cicilline, and the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust,...
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