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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg *(Via Business Insider) – I don’t know how many times and ways I can tell you people to get off Facebook. The company doesn’t care about you, it pollutes society with misinformation, and no matter what happens management never stops prioritizing profit over safety. Over the weekend a low level hacker published personal […]

*The Smartphone or mini-computer that you always see everyone’s eyes glued to, is proving to be one incredibly powerful tool for justice when paired with apps from Facebook Live or Twitter’s Periscope. Regular citizens-turned-eyewitness-reporters are popping up across the country and they are using their smartphones to capture everything from the recent deadly police shootings […]

Credit: Facebook *Back in January, Facebook announced that it tapped nationally renowned civil rights attorney and advocate Roy L. Austin Jr. as its first-ever vice president of civil rights.  The company said in a press release that its newly established civil rights organization was “an incredibly important role for Facebook and for the tech […]

*The U.S. government and more than 40 states have sued Facebook over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, claiming the popular social media platform engages in illegal tactics to  crush competitors.  “For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition,” New York State […]

[…] ON EURWEB: Kenny Rock (Chris’ Bro) is Challenging Will Smith to Step into the Ring! | WATCH Blue Kimble & Melissa Williams from Tyler Perry’s Ruthless ( Facebook) “What I enjoy about Ruth is that she is a complicated character. You don’t know what you’re going to get from her and somebody who really […]

* Facebook’s latest diversity report shows little improvement, despite the company’s efforts to avidly drive diversity in the tech space with the likes of its TechPrep program, which was launched in 2015. “Facebook says it’s having trouble hiring people of color because public schools are failing to educate them properly,” Damon Beres reported for […]

*As you can tell fro our headline, Facebook has a black people problem. This assessment comes from a man who is now a former employee by the name of Mark Luckie. In his 2,500-word missive, posted on Tuesday, on Facebook no less, points out what he sees as a culture that talks about inclusion, […]

 “The Facebook Dilemma,” a Frontline two-parter airing Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 29 and 30) on PBS, peels away the company’s outer layer of wanting to “bring the world closer,” to reveal how it spiraled so wildly into a tool used for sowing discord, winning wars, tilting elections and monetizing your privacy. Early footage […]

Taraji P. Henson If you haven’t heard, Facebook Watch has greenlighted Peace of Mind with Taraji (WT), a new talk show centered on mental wellness with Taraji P. Henson and co-hosted by her long time best friend Tracie Jade Jenkins, who is the Executive Director of Henson’s Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation. The show will […]

Congressional Black Caucus *Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have formed a coalition to press Facebook for action on racial issues, a congressional aide with knowledge of the discussions tells The Hill. “ done with the excuses,” the aide said. There’s a growing feeling in the CBC that Congress needs to put […]

[…] family fortunes and even many of the world’s “self-made” billionaires started off with advantages in life, including startup funds from family. Tech companies like WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Facebook have created many fortunes, although technology isn’t the only way to strike it rich. Others have made their money through hedge funds, retail, and even by […]

*(Via The Daily Beast) – There’s no easy way to quit Facebook. And even if you do, Facebook won’t quit you. For every smug friend who posts about abandoning the platform after Cambridge Analytica’s massive data breach, there are countless other users who have found it impossible to leave. Quitting means more than removing […]

Getty *(CNN) — Facebook is testing an option for users to create multiple profiles from a single account, amid a bid by the platform to reignite user growth. The feature is aimed at helping users “tailor their experience based on interests and relationships,” Facebook spokesperson Leonard Lam told CNN Business in a statement. While […]

Getty *Last year it was announced that META, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, would examine how the platforms treat Black users.  “There are a lot of members of systemically and historically marginalized communities who feel that their experience on our platforms is different,” said Roy Austin Jr., vice president of civil rights […]

[…] New York City. *LOS ANGELES –– Iconic athlete, actor and television analyst Shaquille O’Neal is fulfilling a lifelong dream of launching his own restaurant, and he’s enlisting the Facebook community for advice along the way. Shaq has partnered with The Content Group’s Asylum Entertainment to produce Big Chicken Shaq, a new Facebook Watch series premiering this fall. Through real-time engagement on […]