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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., speaks during the virtual Facebook Connect event, where the company announced its rebranding as Meta, in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The day after Microsoft announced its intent to buy gaming powerhouse Activision Blizzard, the company released […]
LONDON, United Kingdom, Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Facts and Factors has published a new research report titled “ICT Investment in Government Market by Solution (Devices, Software, IT Services, Data Center Systems, and Communication Services) and By Technology (IoT, Big data, Cloud Computing, Content management, and Security): Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast, […]
Facebook FB 1.83% says it’s helping millions of the world’s poorest people get online through apps and services that allow them to use internet data free. Internal company documents show that many of these people end up being charged in amounts that collectively add up to an estimated millions of dollars a month. To attract […]
A worker picks up trash in front of a new logo and the name ‘Meta’ on the sign in front of Facebook headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced it will fully reopen its U.S. offices on Jan. 31, while allowing employees the […]
WASHINGTON — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has removed two popular Kurdish Facebook pages accused of spreading misinformation that helped convince thousands of Kurds to mass along the border of Belarus and Poland late last year. The two accounts, one from a Kurdish lawmaker with 143,000 followers and another belonging to a Kurdish journalist […]
Fetch Rewards Inc., a SoftBank-backed consumer rewards company, has named David Sommer as its first chief customer officer, the company said. Mr. Sommer was previously head of industry at Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., overseeing the accounts of the company’s largest retail and consumer packaged goods clients, such as Walmart Inc. and Procter & Gamble […]
Facebook employees unveil a new logo and the name ‘Meta’ on the sign in front of Facebook headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook parent Meta Platforms dropped 36 spots on Glassdoor’s annual ranking of the best places to work in the U.S., falling from No. 11 […]
Text size Pfizer says its Omicron-targeting vaccine should be ready by March. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Pfizer said it should be able to launch a redesigned Covid-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron variant of the virus by March, while Facebook parent Meta Platforms delayed its U.S. office reopening plans and mandated booster shots […]
Facebook owner Meta has applied for an opportunity to appeal a British regulator’s ruling that Meta should sell Giphy, a popular animated images platform. Competition Appeal Tribunal said on Wednesday that Meta had lodged an application for review on December. Meta has challenged Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ruling on six grounds. The CMA had […]
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What Role Should Mark Zuckerberg Play in U.S. Elections?
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January 6, 2022
Jan. 6, 2022 4:40 pm ET Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Nick Wass/Associated Press In “No Facebook Funding for Elections” (op-ed, Dec. 31), Tarren Bragdon and Joe Horvath endorse a ban on private funding for public election administration. The problem they target—partisan spending by public officials—may be real, but their proposed ban is a significant […]