Marketing and digital news roundup: 6 big stories from this week There’s been plenty of big stories breaking this week that affect the worlds of marketing and digital. From lighter news like Perrier adding a Snapchat filter that mirrored Kanye West’s SNL outfit to bigger announcements that could have an impact on the sectors on […]
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Facebook kicked off its F8 Developers Conference Tuesday with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “This has been an intense year. I can’t believe we’re only four months in,” said Zuckerberg, who was no doubt referring in part to the firestorm since Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data. He moved on, offering a
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Simon / Pixabay Mark Zuckerberg rescinding Facebook’s partnership with Rappler as a fact-checker is satirical news. There is no truth to a report that Facebook’s CEO was taking back its deal to work with Rappler on its fact-checking project just days after the two announced the partnership. Where did this satirical news originate? The Adobo
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Mark Zuckerberg is no doubt relieved to be finished with his two days of testimony before Congress. He acquitted himself well: No gaffes, no disrespect, and thankfully no flop sweat. On the other hand, several of our elected leaders asked questions that were highly uninformed, or in some cases just plain weird. Part of the problem
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Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a key House panel next week, the Congressional House Energy and Commerce Committe announced Wednesday. Zuckerberg will face the committee on April 11. It’s the first of three potential hearings where he could face questions about Facebook’s data privacy practices. “This hearing will be an important opportunity
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Photo Credit: Heisenberg Media Elon Musk offering to buy Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg and then delete the social media platform is satirical news. There is no truth to a report that the founder, chief executive officer (CEO), and lead designer of SpaceX, and co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc. is looking to purchase
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and, if we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Wednesday, five days after the company triggered a firestorm with news
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has embroiled Facebook since last Friday, and which wiped tens of billions of dollars off the social network’s market value. The scandal centers on British data company Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and which illicitly obtained information from as
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Lawmakers from the United States and Britain are heaping criticisms on Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg after reports revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data company said to have been instrumental in Donald Trump’s presidential win, received data from 50 million Facebook users through inappropriate means. The social media giant announced on Friday that it suspended
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Mark Zuckerberg is many things. An entrepreneur. A philanthropist. A visionary. He’s also undeniably quotable. A remark he made in 2011–when he hadn’t yet cracked the 30-years-old mark–particularly stands out as inspirational fodder for anyone determined to succeed. While speaking extemporaneously at Stanford University, he was brutally honest about what it takes to make it if you’re
