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Facebook could see a 7% decline in revenue due to new European data laws (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 09:17Zuckerberg keeps insisting Facebook doesn’t sell our data. What it does is even worse
When Zuckerberg was questioned about the company’s handling of user data and how it essentially handed it off to third parties, he demurred. “For some reason, we haven’t been able to kick this notion, for years, that people think that we sell data to advertisers,” said Zuckerberg. “We don’t.”
Quip Is A Startup That Built Its Brand On Facebook. Now It Can Never Leave. (Fast Company)
Submitted by Kip Roderick on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 12:48The diversity of the New York Times’ leadership hasn’t budged in years (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 13:44How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans’ Facebook Data
Facebook has been rocked by reports of a massive data scrape carried out by Cambridge Analytica and one of its then-contractors, a Cambridge University academic named Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan claims that the data he collected from thousands of Facebook users and their friends—amounting to data on over 50 million users—abided by Facebook’s terms; Cambridge Analytica promises it deleted the data; and Facebook is auditing everyone it can for signs of the data. But while Facebook provided the original data, it wasn’t the only vehicle for Kogan’s app.