The problem with Facebook
FACEBOOK made history last week. Last Thursday, the company suffered the biggest one-day loss in stock value ever, when its stock plummeted by $232 billion — greater than the GDP of many…
Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and…
Coming bill would allow US news publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google
Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organizations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck,…
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
Facebook Inc oversight board’s extension of former US President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance political leaders’ freedom of speech and its…
Europe turns on Facebook, Google for digital tax revamp
They have revolutionised the way we live, but are US tech giants the new robber barons of the 21st century, banking billions in profit while short-changing the public by paying…
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
Facebook Inc oversight board’s extension of former US President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance political leaders’ freedom of speech and its…
Can Facebook’s $1bn gamble help it regain lost cool?
Like internet personalities the world over, Kenyan TikTok comedian Mark Mwas was intrigued when Facebook announced a $1 billion plan to pay content creators like him. But the 25-year-old, whose…
Twitter & Facebook
Today is an aweful day (or rather the offal day). It's Eidul Adha. It's 8am. I have just consumed my cup of tea and first cigarette. By 4pm, the city…
Volatility may hit Wall Street as Alphabet, Facebook leave tech sector group
Volatility could well be in the cards for Wall Street again early this fall, but not for the same reason stocks got rattled in February. This time the culprit would…
The Facebook ‘leaks’
A world overburdened with power, conspiracies, intrigue will crack under the weight of an overload of hidden data creating crevices that lead to breach of secrecy and security. The WikiLeaks…
