Health experts to Mark Zuckerberg: Messenger Kids is ‘irresponsible’
Despite its attempts to quell parents’ and health professionals’ concerns about kids online, Facebook continues to face heavy backlash to its Messenger Kids network. Facebook faced expected criticism last month when it...
Tech’s terrible year: how the world turned on Silicon Valley in 2017
From the #DeleteUber campaign to fake news, the industry found itself in the crosshairs this year and it was a long time coming, experts sayWhen Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things, which...
What To Do With James Franco, An Alleged Harasser Long Defined By Sex
James Franco has held many titles during his tenure in Hollywood: movie star, director, heartthrob, grad student, acting teacher, short story writer, poet, indie musician, Oscar host, naked wrestler, media glutton, Time’s Up pin-wearer. But...
Facebook warned it faces legal action from ‘revenge porn’ victims
Settlement with teenager over naked images of her posted online on networking site has moved goalposts, say lawyersFacebook is facing a number of lawsuits from victims of “revenge porn”, a leading libel lawyer has...
Silicon Valley and the Threat to Democracy
"Esc!” It’s the key on the top left of the keyboard that you hit frantically when your laptop crashes. Confronted by the ghastly reality that some of their proudest creations – Google, Facebook and...
How to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook deserves a lot of the flack it gets, be it for providing Russian propaganda with a platform or gradually eroding privacy norms. Still, it has some genuine usefulness. And while the single best...
