Month: October 2021

Frances Haugen’s testimony spotlighted the negative effects of social media’s impact on children and called for regulation of the company The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, testified before the US Congress on Tuesday, painting a dire picture of the tech giant’s policies. Haugen’s appearance in front of the US Senate is just the latest high-profile hearing …

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UK driver alleges his account was illegally deactivated when Uber software decided he was not who he said he was An Uber driver who lost his job when automated face-scanning software failed to recognise him is accusing the firm of indirect race discrimination in a legal test case. The black driver, who worked on the …

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Three people tell how they were affected by temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and Instagram The global outage just adds to Facebook’s many recent woes Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday. …

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Trump has handled his social media exile with all the grace one would expect – and now he’s pathetically grovelling for the chance to tweet Did you get a bit antsy on Monday when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down? Did you feel the terrible tremors of an addict forced to go cold turkey? If …

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California federal court orders company to pay Owen Diaz who alleges he faced ‘daily racial epithets’ including the ‘N-word’ Tesla has been ordered by a federal court in California to pay almost $137m in damages to a Black former employee who said he endured racial abuse while working at a factory in Fremont. Owen Diaz, …

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Former Facebook employee who warned company puts profit before safety will urge US senators to take action Profile: who is Frances Haugen? Key takeaways: what the Facebook whisteblower revealed Senator Richard Blumenthal has kicked off the hearing with opening statements, laying out the revelations about Facebook made public by Haugen and condemning the company for …

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Frances Haugen filed at least eight complaints against the company regarding its approach to safety The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, who testifies at the US Congress on Tuesday, has filed at least eight complaints with the US financial watchdog accusing the social media company of serially misleading investors and politicians over its approach to safety. …

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts I imagine that a couple of hundred years ago the idea of recording and playing back audio or video was as ridiculous as the idea seems now of recording and playing …

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We would like to hear your experiences of when you were unable to access your social media accounts On Monday and Tuesday, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that caused the social media platforms to go down globally for nearly six hours. We would like to know how you were affected by the outage …

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In the past month the social media empire has faced headaches ranging from accusations of putting profit over public good, to calls for it to be broken up Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing “Let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don’t crash ever!” Jesse Eisenberg’s …

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