Nigel Farage Just Credited Mark Zuckerberg For Trump And Brexit
"Perhaps you’re horrified of this creation of yours and what it’s led to."
Cambridge Analytica Just Filed For US Bankruptcy
The Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing shows the company’s web of high-powered connections.
BBC News Is Completely Dominating "News" Results Right Now And Google Is Trying To Fix It
It comes days after Google announced big changes in how it ranks news publishers.
Melania Trump Reused An Obama-Era Pamphlet For Her New Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign
The Federal Trade Commission says it worked with Trump to update and redistribute the earlier edition, which she launched as part of her "Be Best" initiative.
Facebook Placed An Employee Who Harvested User Data For Cambridge Analytica On Leave
Facebook is now conducting an investigation into Joseph Chancellor, who cofounded a company that sold Facebook user information used by Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down After Igniting Debate Around Facebook And Privacy
In March, the consulting firm was engulfed in controversy about how it obtained and used data on millions of Facebook users in American elections.
British MPs Just Called Facebook A "Morality-Free Zone" And Likened It To A "Vampire Squid"
"I put it to you today, sir: Facebook is a morality-free zone, destructive to a fundamental right to privacy," said one Conservative MP.
Cambridge Analytica Scientist Says Alexander Nix "Absolutely" Lied To Parliament
After the latest parliamentary hearing, a spokesperson for Cambridge Analytica denied the company was a "Bond villain".
Cambridge Analytica Data Scientist Aleksandr Kogan Wants You To Know He’s Not A Russian Spy
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he’s considering suing Facebook.
Theranos’ Letter To Shareholders Shows The Company Is On Its Deathbed
“The most viable option that we have identified to forestall a near-term sale or a potential default under our credit agreement is further investment by one or more of you.”
Mark Zuckerberg Sent An Apology Letter About Myanmar. These NGOs Called It “Grossly Insufficient.”
Facebook’s CEO is expected to testify in front of US senators on Tuesday. At least one may ask about his company’s role in spreading hate speech in a country that’s been beset by ethnic conflict.
Nasim Aghdam Opened Fire On YouTube Because She Was "Upset" With Its Policies And Practices
Police said Nasim Aghdam visited a gun range the morning before she opened fire at the YouTube headquarters in California.
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Wanted His New Company To Work With Trump Campaign’s Manager
"We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data.”
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted To Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”
Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who helped found Cambridge Analytica, recently came clean about his role in creating the controversial data mining outfit. BuzzFeed News has obtained communications that show what he was thinking when he went about creating a similar company to Cambridge Analytica and why being “evil pays more.”
Facebook's Board Said It Supports Zuckerberg And Sandberg In The Cambridge Analytica Crisis
As the furor over the controversial data firm's abuse of Facebook data raged on, its suddenly embattled top brass received a full-throated endorsement Wednesday afternoon.
These Men Helped Create Cambridge Analytica. Here Is Their New, Very Similar Startup.
Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.” Two of his associates who also helped build that tool have been quietly building another company to analyze and influence human behavior.
Uber Is Being Challenged For Trying To Send a Sexual Assault Lawsuit to Arbitration
Nine women are suing Uber, alleging they were sexually assaulted by drivers on the platform. Their lawyers are challenging the company's plan to settle the lawsuit behind closed doors.
YouTube Said It Will Link To Wikipedia Excerpts On Conspiracy Videos — But It Didn't Tell Wikipedia
"Information cues" — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.
Want To Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project.
Copying other companies' work and intellectual property can generate big paydays for hucksters in the cryptocurrency world. One company has maintained a $2.3 billion valuation despite widespread allegations of plagiarism.