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-- 2017 --
On Twitter: Facebook was always anti-Trump.The
Networks were always anti-Trump hence,Fake News,
@nytimes(apologized) &
@WaPo were anti-Trump. Collusion?
September 27
Donald J. TrumpVerified
account @realDonaldTrump
September 27:
Zuckerberg responds to Trump's
claim Facebook was out to get him
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/technology/business/mark-zuckerberg-trump-facebook-response/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
On Twitter:
"Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump," Zuckerberg
said in a
statement posted to Facebook. "Both sides are upset about ideas and content
they don't like. That's what running a platform for all ideas looks like."
September 27
Mark Zuckerberg (on Facebook)
October 2: Facebook says estimated 10M people saw Russia-linked ads
before, after election
The
company turned 3,000 ads over to three congressional committees
Monday as part of their investigations into Russian influence in the 2016
election. In a new
company blog post, Facebook's Elliot Schrage said the ads appeared to focus
on divisive social and political messages, including LGBT issues, immigration
and gun rights. In many cases, the ads encouraged people to follow pages on
those issues.
Fewer than half of the ads -- which ran between 2015 and 2017 -- were seen
before the election, with 56 percent of them seen after the election. Some of
the ads were paid for in Russian currency.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-10m-people-saw-russian-linked-ads-2016-election/
October 2: Hard Questions: Russian [Facebook]
Ads Delivered to Congress ... By Elliot Schrage, Vice
President of Policy and Communications
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/10/hard-questions-russian-ads-delivered-to-congress/
October 2: In his post, Schrage wrote that
most of the ads "appear to focus on divisive social and political messages
across the ideological spectrum, touching on topics from LGBT matters to race
issues to immigration to gun rights."
That description matches what CNN has already reported about the apparent goal
of the Russian buyers: to amplify political discord in the United States and
fuel an atmosphere of divisiveness and chaos, especially during the presidential
election.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/media/facebook-russian-ads-10-million/index.html
-- 2018 --
February 20: Russian bots sow social
upheaval across US using Facebook, Twitter, experts say ... Russian bots aren't
pro-Republican or pro-Democrat: they're simply anti-American.
While much of the attention has focused on the 2016 U.S. presidential election
and the role played in it by the Internet Research Agency, one of the defendants
named in the indictment, Russian social media bots also have been detected
inserting discord into the Parkland, Fla., shooting debate on social media.
Russian bots have reportedly been
taking
both sides in the debate.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/20/russian-bots-sow-social-upheaval-across-us-using-facebook-twitter-experts-say.html
March 17:
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html
March 18: Facebook is
reportedly investigating ties between one of its current employees and Cambridge
Analytica, the data firm used by the Trump campaign that was recently suspended
from the platform.
Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica from the platform on Friday after reports
it had not fully deleted data it obtained through the platform from University
of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379044-facebook-opens-investigation-into-employees-connections-to-cambridge
March 18: A New York professor filed a legal
claim against Cambridge Analytica seeking information on what the data firm
learned about him ...
The claim was filed the same day Cambridge Analytica was suspended from Facebook
after reports it had not fully deleted data it obtained from Cambridge
University professor Aleksandr Kogan.
The professor was found to have
harvested more than 50 million Facebook profiles from his app, which
required a Facebook login, despite only 270,000 having given permission for
their data to be harvested, according to a New York Times report Saturday.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379036-ny-professor-sues-cambridge-analytica
March 19: Facebook’s
New Controversy Shows How Easily Online Political Ads Can Manipulate You
Reporting by the Observer,
the Guardian and
the New York Times in recent days has revealed that
Cambridge Analytica — the social media monitoring firm that bragged it
helped put Trump in the White House — had gained access before the election to
the data of 50 million Facebook users through highly questionable means.
Cambridge Analytica used to that data to create a tool of “psychological
warfare” to manipulate American voters with targeted Facebook ads and social
media campaigns.
http://time.com/5197255/facebook-cambridge-analytica-donald-trump-ads-data/
April 4: Facebook's
Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congress On April 10 And 11
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599394175/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-testify-in-congress-on-april-11
April 6: Facebook
announces changes to combat election meddling
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/06/technology/facebook-election-meddling-political-ads-pages/index.html
April 9: Facebook’s
most popular Black Lives Matter page was a scam run by a white Australian,
report says
http://www.cbelmira.com/blog/facebooks-most-popular-black-lives-matter-page-was-a-scam-run-by-a-white-australian-report-says/
April 10: On Tuesday
senators on Capitol Hill grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the
company's handling of users' privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica
scandal that exposed the data of 87 million users.
While privacy advocates were optimistic that this would result in real answers
from the leader of one of the 21st century's most important technology
companies, many of the questions asked by senators seemed to require an
explanation of the basics.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/10/senators-question-facebook-but-do-they-know-what/504333002/
May 14: Huge new Facebook data leak exposed
intimate details of 3m usersz
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebook-data-leak-exposed-intimate-details-of-3m-users/
June 4: Apple will attempt to frustrate
tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version
of its iOS and Mac operating systems.
"We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at
the firm's developers conference.
He added that the web browser Safari would ask owners' permission before
allowing the social network to monitor their activity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44360273
June 5:
Facebook and Google were paid millions for political advertising purposes in
Washington but failed for years to publish related information — such as the
advertiser’s address — as required by state law, alleges a lawsuit by the
state’s attorney general.
Washington law requires that “political campaign and lobbying contributions and
expenditures be fully disclosed to the public and that secrecy is to be
avoided.”
Specifically, “documents and books of account” must be made available for public
inspection during the campaign and for three years following; these must detail
the candidate, name of advertiser, address, cost and method of payment and
description services rendered.
The case likely will not result in significant monetary penalties for the
companies in question; even if fines and damages totaled tens of millions it
would be a drop in the bucket for the tech giants. But deliberately skirting
laws governing political spending and public disclosure is rather a bad look for
companies under especial scrutiny for systematic dishonesty — primarily Facebook.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/05/washington-sues-facebook-and-google-over-failure-to-disclose-political-ad-spending/
June 4: ...
The New York Times revealed that
Facebook had deals with phone
manufacturers including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Blackberry going back a
decade that gave the device makers access to copious amounts of personal data
about users and their friends in order to re-create a mobile version of Facebook
on their devices.
Facebook had deals with 60 companies, granting those firms access to information
like users’ relationship status, religion, political leaning, events they
planned to attend, and whether the user was online. What’s more, some deals let
device makers override a user’s privacy setting. Smartphone manufacturers could
obtain information about a user’s Facebook friends even if that user denied
Facebook permission to share their information with third parties.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-privacy-problem-could-deepen-facebooks-legal-trouble/
June 4: Apple Requested 'Zero' Personal Data
In Deals With Facebook, CEO Tim Cook Says
"We've never been in the data business," Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday,
responding to a report that Facebook struck agreements giving Apple and other
device makers access to Facebook users' personal information.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/04/616280585/apple-requested-zero-personal-data-in-deals-with-facebook-ceo-tim-cook-says
June 4: Find Out What Google and Facebook
Know About You .... How to do a data detox, in a zillion easy steps
https://medium.com/s/trustissues/find-out-what-google-and-facebook-know-about-you-31d0fa6d7b61
June 6: Facebook says it gave Huawei and
other Chinese firms access to user data
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/technology/facebook-huawei-china-data-sharing/index.html
June 6: Facebook will fund shows by CNN, ABC
and Fox News
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-will-fund-shows-by-cnn-abc-and-fox-news-2018-06-06
June 7: Facebook Breached Your Privacy,
Again ... Facebook Shares Your Secrets: Facebook says it accidentally
changed settings for 14 million users last month causing posts they may have
thought were private to be public.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/pacific-newsletter/index.html
July 25: Mark Zuckerberg's Net Worth Tumbles
$18.8 Billion, More In One Day Than Ever Before
https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2018/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-tumbles-more-than-10-billion-after-weak-earnings-report/#5cfb06ff2670
July 26: Trump Facebook Ads Blast Democrats
Over Second Amendment: ‘The Truth Is Finally Out’
More than 100 ads contend Dems want to curtail gun rights
“It is unequivocally not the Democratic caucus’ position to repeal the Second
Amendment,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told The
New York Times.
https://www.thewrap.com/trump-facebook-ads-democrats-second-amendment/
July 26: Facebook stock drops 19%, loses
$120 billion in value after warning that revenue growth will take a hit
Facebook earnings include ‘nightmare guidance’
The social-media behemoth’s stock lost roughly one-fifth of its value in the
extended session Wednesday. The stock dropped about 7% immediately after the
earnings report was released, then plummeted to a loss of more than 20% as a
conference call with analysts progressed. Close to 34 million shares changed
hands in Wednesday’s extended session, well above the average volume of 17
million shares for a regular trading session over the past month.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-stock-crushed-after-revenue-user-growth-miss-2018-07-25
July 26:
Facebook's sudden and stunning vulnerability threatens to undercut the
foundation of the stock market rally since
Donald Trump was elected
president.
The social media giant has been the cornerstone of the FAANG trade — Facebook,
Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet. Just by itself, Facebook has
gained more than 80 percent since Trump's November 2016 victory. The S&P 500
more broadly is up some 35 percent during the time period.
But
a disappointing earnings report Wednesday, particularly regarding its growth
forecast, had investors fleeing the company Thursday and pulling down tech
stocks in general. Other market indexes were not impacted as strongly.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/facebooks-tumble-threatens-to-take-a-big-bite-out-of-the-trump-rally.html
September 17: Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix
Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with
the power of Big Tech.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy
October 12: Hackers accessed personal
information of 30 million Facebook users
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/tech/facebook-hack-personal-information-accessed/index.html
November 16: Senators 'gravely concerned'
over Facebook's ties to political research firm
Four Democratic senators joined a growing chorus of Facebook critics on Friday,
sending a letter to the company’s leadership requesting answers about its
employment of a Washington public relations firm.
The four senators — Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Mark Warner of Virginia, Chris
Coons of Delaware and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — asked Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg
in the letter whether his company had hired a firm to collect and
disseminate information about Facebook critics, including elected officials.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/senators-gravely-concerned-over-facebook-s-ties-political-research-firm-n937411
November 26: From Facebook to climate
change: how to bury bad news
Have you smeared George Soros or need to release an awkward climate change
report? There’s really no better moment
For government agencies and corporations with bad news they are reluctant to put
out, there’s long been a tradition in public relations called the Friday news
dump. In essence it’s a way of saying, OK, fine, we screwed up somehow, but
let’s wait to admit to it until the last possible moment so fewer people will
hear about it.
The problem is now that everyone is constantly connected to their phones, news
travels further on a typical Friday evening than it used to. The
Trump administration and Facebook needed another way to bury a couple of
alarming stories last week. Enter the Thanksgiving news dump.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/26/facebook-trump-thanksgiving-bury-bad-news
November 27: UK lawmaker hopes to publish
secret Facebook documents within a week
The British lawmaker who seized a cache of confidential Facebook documents says
he could make them public within a week.
Damian Collins, the chairman of a British parliamentary committee investigating
disinformation, told reporters he would release the documents once they had been
reviewed and stripped of personal data.
"I can't give you an exact date, but I would hope we would be in a position to
publish them very soon," he said Tuesday. "Certainly within the next week or so,
that would be my hope."
Facebook (FB)
has fought for months to keep the documents private. They are part of a court
case in California between Facebook and a small app developer.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/tech/facebook-hearing-damian-collins/index.html
November 28: The antisocial network: 'Facebook
has a black people problem,' claims staffer in exit salvo
Unfair content takedowns and workplace putdowns called out in internal memo
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/28/facebook_black_problem/
December 19: First lawsuit against Facebook
over Cambridge Analytica filed by Washington, D.C., attorney general
“Facebook failed to protect the privacy of its users and deceived them about who
had access to their data and how it was used,” Karl Racine said in a statement.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/first-lawsuit-against-facebook-over-cambridge-analytica-filed-washington-d-n949956
December 19: Facebook Allowed Some Tech
Companies To Read And Delete Users’ Private Messages: NYT
Since 2010, the tech giant has reportedly granted over 150 companies deeper
access to users’ personal data than it has admitted.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-data-sharing-partnerships-privacy_us_5c19de82e4b08db99058dd3a
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