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House and Senate put Zuckerberg on notice: 'You are the right person to testify before Congress'

Devin Coldewey
TechCrunch

... Well, Congress has taken him at his word. "You are the right person to testify before Congress," wrote the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter detailed early this morning.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-senate-put-zuckerberg-notice-211902438.html

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been rather scarce lately

 

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MARK ZUCKERBERG ESCALATES APOLOGY TOUR WITH FULL-PAGE AD
As the threat of regulation looms, the Facebook C.E.O. apologized to the masses for the Cambridge Analytica fiasco

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EMMA STEFANSKY

... “This is a slow roll into serious fuckery,” one tech investor told my colleague Nick Bilton, “they’re ******.” Perhaps divining the urgency of the situation from Facebook stock’s almost $50 billion plunge, Mark Zuckerberg took to the airwaves for a round of mea culpas, and it appears his apology tour is ongoing: on Sunday, a full-page advertisement written in Zuck’s voice and bearing his signature appeared in more than half a dozen major print publications.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/mark-zuckerberg-escalates-facebook-cambridge-analytica-apology-tour-with-full-page-ad?mbid=nl_th_5ab838480912cf5ebb5e8e47&CNDID=49183601&spMailingID=13193589&spUserID=MTg0NzAyMTMyMTE3S0&spJobID=1362367367&spReportId=MTM2MjM2NzM2NwS2

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a news conference in San Francisco, November 15, 2010.
By Robert Galbraith/Reuters

 

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ZUCKERBERG HITS USERS WITH THE HARD TRUTH: YOU AGREED TO THIS
After another privacy bombshell, Facebook tells horrified users, “it’s explained right there in the app.”


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MAYA KOSOFF

... Mark Zuckerberg has yet another mess on his hands. Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/zuckerberg-hits-users-with-the-hard-truth-you-agreed-to-this?mbid=nl_th_5ab97bcedd330764281481ef&CNDID=49183601&spMailingID=13201766&spUserID=MTg0NzAyMTMyMTE3S0&spJobID=1362467936&spReportId=MTM2MjQ2NzkzNgS2

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US consumer agency probes Facebook as shares resume slide

Rob Lever
AFP

... The Federal Trade Commission confirmed news reports from last week that it had opened an inquiry over the harvesting of Facebook data on tens of millions users of the social network by the British consulting group Cambridge Analytica.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-shares-fresh-slide-us-consumer-agency-probe-155531058.html

The US Federal Trade Commission has taken the unusual step of confirming a probe into Facebook following revelations on the leakage of data on millions of users of the social network (AFP Photo/Luis ACOSTA)

 

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Facebook faces lawsuit over discriminatory housing ads

Rob LeFebvre
Engadget

... by allowing advertisers to exclude racial and ethnic groups when buying ads for housing, employment or even credit.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-faces-lawsuit-over-discriminatory-174800646.html

In 2016m the Congressional Black Caucus said that Facebook had violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA)