Tag: Sheryl Sandberg
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Facebook fighting hard to earn back trust
Facebook’s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday that the world’s largest social network needed to win back public trust after facing scandals for violating its users’ privacy. The social media platform is investing billions of dollars a year to improve the security of its network, Sandberg said at the World Economic Forum in Davos,…
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Facebook’s Sandberg cites need to do more after reports of Russia meddling
Facebook Inc’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Tuesday the company needs to step up its efforts to curb misinformation. Sandberg said this after research revealed that Russia-backed organizations targeted African-Americans. The groups targeted were those who favored Hillary Clinton in order to suppress voter turnout during the 2016 election. U.S. intelligence agencies had…
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Under fire Facebook COO says company firmly against hate
Under fire from series of scandals and fiascos Facebook has found itself in, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the social media company, Sheryl Sandberg, has said the firm stands firmly against hate. This is especially following accusations that Facebook played into an anti-Semitic narrative against Mr. George Soros, a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. “Being Jewish…
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Facebook’s response to data scandal has ‘diminished’ trust — EU
Facebook must do more to address allegations of large-scale data mining, the EU has said, warning that the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal threatens democracy and has diminished trust in the social media giant. Facebook has come under fire after a co-founder of data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica told an undercover reporter that information from about…
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Facebook CEO opens up on Cambridge Analytica
Facebook founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, has shared an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation in which the social media giant was unable to protect users’ data of about 50 million people on the platform. Facebook had placed a ban on Cambridge Analytica after allegations emerged that a Cambridge University researcher named Aleksandr…
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Facebook launches anti-extremism UK training program
Facebook is launching a program in the UK to train and fund local organizations to combat extremist material online, as internet companies attempt to clamp down on hate speech and violent content on their services. Facebook, which outlined new efforts to remove extremist and terrorism content from its social media platform last week, will launch…