Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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2019: Who is the Nigerian billionaire behind the 2015 general elections?
As events unfold for 2019 general elections to hold in Nigeria, it becomes imperative to consider certain dealings that came to play in events leading up to the 2015 general elections in the country. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, confessional statements emerged of how a Nigerian billionaire supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan…
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Gates, Zuckerberg partner to halt spread of infectious diseases
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced a partnership with the Gates Foundation to get an exciting new tool called IDseq, built by Biohub, into the hands of more people around the world in order to fight the spread of infectious diseases to a halt. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Facebook founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg…
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Man who met his wife on Facebook names son Zukerberg
A Nigerian man from Bayelsa State, Vure Kingsley and his wife have named their son after Mark Zukerberg after meeting his wife on Facebook. According to the social media activist and grassroot politician, ‘I met my wife on Facebook a few years ago and got married a year ago’. He went on to say, ‘Facebook…
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European Parliament on Tuesday. He meets them to answer questions about how the data of millions of Facebook users ended up in the hands of a political consultancy. The meeting comes three days before tough new European Union rules on data protection take effect.…
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Facebook announces dating feature, to engage ‘army’ on security
Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced a new dating feature for the Facebook app and revealed before the year 2018 ends, the social media platform will engage an army of 20,000 people to work on security and content review. The Facebook founder and chief executive officer made this known in his keynote at the platform’s F8…
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Cambridge Analytica: Kogan defends involvement in Facebook data scandal
Developer of the ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ personality quiz app that was involved in the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Professor Aleksandr Kogan, has opened up to defending his involvement. The Cambridge University professor developed the personality quiz app with which over 87 million users account on Facebook were compromised when he shared the…
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Facebook records biggest gain amidst crisis
Facebook shares rose sharply, registering its biggest gain in nearly two years as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg answered questions from U.S. senators on how Facebook might be regulated more closely. Facing US lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday, Zuckerberg repeatedly apologized for the issues that Facebook caused, from data privacy to foreign attempts to influence U.S.…
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Apple co-founder shuts down Facebook
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak closed his Facebook account as one of the latest tech leaders who started to distance themselves from the world’s largest social media firm following its scandal involving alleged misuse of user data. Wozniak told the USA Today daily that he was taken aback by the extent of Facebook’s data collection when…