Progressive advocacy groups call on the FTC to ‘make Facebook safe for democracy’

A team of progressive advocacy groups, including MoveOn and Demand Progress, are asking the Federal Trade Commission to “make Facebook safe for democracy.” According to Axios, the campaign, called Freedom From...

Zuckerberg will meet with European parliament in private next week

Who says privacy is dead? Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to take European parliamentarians’ questions about how his platform impacts the privacy of hundreds of millions of European citizens — but...

The Questions Zuckerberg Should Have Answered About Russia

Over the last two days, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was questioned for more than 10 hours by two different Congressional committees. There was granular focus on privacy definitions and data collection, and quick footwork...

Facebook is still falling short on privacy, says German minister

Germany’s justice minister has written to Facebook calling for the platform to implement an internal “control and sanction mechanism” to ensure third-party developers and other external providers are not able to misuse...

Susan Fowler’s plan after Uber? Tear down the system that protects harassers

In an exclusive interview, Susan Fowler the engineer who kickstarted a reckoning on sexual harassment in Silicon Valley says the industry must end an obscure legal clause that prevents people like her seeking justiceSusan...

#TBT: Bill Gates faced Congress almost exactly 20 years before Zuckerberg

(CNN)One major tech CEO testifying before Congress isn't cool. You know what's cool? Two major tech CEOs testifying before Congress. At that time, Zuck was a teen years away from inventing Facebook in...