French President Emmanuel Macron has assumed a position of someone firmly against U.S. social media platforms after criticizing the addictive and harmful aspects the platforms and opposing online anonymity, the BFM TV reports. The next meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg could thus be colder than the one in May 2018. In an interview with Le Point weekly, Macron delivered his view of... 

Facebook has announced that, going forward, it will be known as Meta. Beset by numerous scandals in recent weeks, the firm is aiming to transition to become “a metaverse company” rather than a social media firm. Mired in numerous antitrust probes, battling investigations in multiple countries, and desperately trying to defuse the revelations from an explosive series of internal document leaks,... 

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebuttal of accusations against Facebook and call for action by Congress are just an attempt to have the government protect his monopoly, digital freedoms activist Edward Snowden said. The CEO of Facebook posted a lengthy reaction to this week’s outage of company services and the congressional testimony of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who accused the company... 

Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to permanently make worshipping God an online-only experience on Facebook, eliminating the need for Christians to physically enter churches. The Facebook CEO boasted this week that he is ramping up the company’s formal partnerships with religious groups across America and encouraging them to entice its users to “connect with God” digitally, reports the New... 

Facebook users have begun to receive creepy messages warning them that they ‘may have been exposed to extremist content’ and asking if they need support, as well as asking them to report anyone they know who ‘may be becoming an extremist’. The warnings began popping up Thursday and have little indication of what the platform considers to be ‘extremist content’: Encouraging people to turn... 

Denouncing Facebook’s “insidious” operating practices, iconic Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters did not mince words in rejecting the social media giant’s request to use his song ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)’ in an ad campaign. At a public forum event in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in New York last week, Waters held up a sheet of paper and claimed that Facebook... 

According to a newly published BuzzFeed report, Mark Zuckerberg himself intervened and ordered his Facebook employees to never ban Ben Shapiro and other figures regardless of what they say. Why, some of you may ask yourselves? Obviously it’s not because Zuckerberg is a “right-winger” by any way shape of form. In fact we know for a fact that he is a super-leftist. Even though it doesn’t... 

Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram will continue blocking Donald Trump’s content indefinitely or at least until after president-elect Joe Biden is ensconced in the Oval Office, Mark Zuckerberg has said, citing Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol. Declaring that the “risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service” during the run-up to Biden’s inauguration are “simply too... 

Mark Zuckerberg, the Jewish CEO of Facebook, as done an about-face on his former policy which allowed for a healthy debate over the historical accuracy of the so-called “Holocaust” — and will now be completely censoring anyone who questions any aspect of it — suggesting that by doing so he will be saving his fellow Jews from “violent” attacks: Facebook has confirmed that is has updated... 

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe has shared shocking footage that purports to show Facebook-owned Instagram censoring his posts on the platform in real time. Video of the alleged censorship was uploaded to Twitter Thursday morning and shows the head of the right-wing whistleblower group Project Veritas attempting to tag his own group in an Instagram post. However, the name is automatically... 

Facebook has removed a number of pages related to the right-wing ‘Patriot Prayer’ movement. A mainstay at pro-gun rallies and street protests, the group made news recently after a member was gunned down in Portland, Oregon. A Facebook spokesman told Reuters about the removal of the pages on Friday, saying that the company pulled the pages as part of “ongoing efforts to remove violent social... 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has reportedly passed $100 billion for the first time after the social media giant’s stock price hit a record based on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor, Reels. Only Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates also have fortunes worth more than $100 billion. The AP reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has passed $100 billion for the first... 

WhatsApp is a “Trojan horse” exploited to snoop on millions of users naive enough to believe that the Facebook-owned messenger differs from its parent company, long beset by privacy scandals, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said. In a lengthy post on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Durov took aim at one of his brainchild’s biggest rivals – WhatsApp, the world’s leading messaging app, which... 

Facebook’s plan to hook ad-cash-deprived mainstream outlets on licensing payouts seems to be an attempt to hijack narrative control en route to total domination of the infosphere – the ultimate safe space, Zuckerberg-style. More than two thirds of American adults get their news from social media at the same time that more than half expect that news to be “largely inaccurate.” Perhaps... 

Facebook activity among Britons has crashed by more than one third over the past 12 months, according to the analytics firm Mixpanel, first reported by The Daily Telegraph. Since June 2018, several months after news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal was revealed, activity on Facebook’s mobile app in the UK dropped 38% through June 2019. User clicks on web links or adverts inside the Facebook app...