Facebook Inc quickly rejected a call from co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday to break up the world’s largest social media company in three, while lawmakers urged the U.S. Justice Department to launch an antitrust investigation. Hughes co-founded Facebook in 2004 at Harvard with Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He left Facebook in 2007, and has said …
Facebook Inc admitted on Wednesday the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million. The source of this vulnerability is Facebook’s search function, which allows anyone to look …
Facebook spooked many of its users within minutes of its “major” announcement yesterday of the company’s new Graph Search, which will delight advertisers but risk scaring the hell out of Joe Public. Guy Daniels reports. read more