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March 23, 2018

Facebook denies claim that it favored Obama's 2012 campaign

Facebook has denied a claim that it displayed favoritism toward Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential election campaign.

March 23, 2018

Elon Musk yanks SpaceX and Tesla's Facebook pages

Elon Musk ‘unfriended’ Facebook on Friday, pulling the SpaceX and Tesla pages from the social network after he was challenged to do so on Twitter.

March 23, 2018

John Fund: Facebook flap -- Don't overreact with regulation that will destroy social media innovation

We now know that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 50 million Facebook users by using a personality test app.

March 23, 2018

Facebook must be accountable to the American people -- Here's what needs to happen now

Our country's social, political, moral and economic wellbeing is at stake.

March 23, 2018

Facebook controversy: Love it or hate it, big data is here to stay

We are living in a society that values big data and the conveniences that it affords us. As intelligent consumers, when we use Facebook or a loyalty card, we are making a tradeoff between privacy and the value we obtain.

March 23, 2018

Here's why the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy matters

Cambridge Analytica is being loudly criticized for apparently using massive amounts of data on 50 million Facebook users to formulate political advertising on behalf of the Trump campaign after receiving the data from Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan.

March 22, 2018

Big Brother Facebook helped get Obama reelected, now they’re doing damage control

Following a lengthy post on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNN Wednesday night: "I’m really sorry this happened. We have a basic responsibility to protect people’s data.”

March 22, 2018

Advertisers tell Facebook 'enough is enough' as group representing 3,000 brands threatens to leave

Facebook is facing the possibility of an advertiser exodus in the U.K. on the heels of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s apology over the data scandal that has enveloped the company, prompted calls for new regulations and knocked almost $50 billion from its market cap.

March 22, 2018

Obama 2012 campaign 'sucked' data from Facebook, former official says

As the controversy over Cambridge Analytica’s alleged misuse of Facebook data grows, other groups’ use of the social network have also been thrust into the spotlight, including President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential election campaign.

March 21, 2018

New York Times cuts negative reference to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg from story

The New York Times altered a story regarding the departure of Facebook’s chief information security officer over his handling of Russian interference in order leave out details that were seemingly unfavorable to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.