Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday it was temporarily halting recommendations for all political groups and any new groups in the run-up to Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election. Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg referred to one of the changes during a Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying: “We have taken the steps to stop recommendations in groups … Read more
House lawmakers released a scathing report on four of the world’s largest tech companies, accusing them of abusing their market power. The report, which was released on Tuesday and concludes a 16-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, recommended breaking up the companies and passing the most sweeping changes to antitrust laws in decades. … Read more
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on whether to subpoena the chief executive officers of Google, Facebook and Twitter because they have declined testify on a legal shield that protects online platforms against lawsuits, a committee spokesperson said. The vote to issue subpoenas for Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Twitter’s Jack … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has called for an investigation into the operations of social media giants, Facebook and WhatsApp, in India and asserted that no one can be allowed to interfere in our nation’s affairs. He claimed that international media have fully exposed Facebook’s and WhatsApp’s brazen assault on India’s democracy and social … Read more
WASHINGTON: Four Big Tech CEOs, Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple, are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry. The powerful executives are set to defend their companies as buttressing … Read more
Cities are remarkably resilient. They have risen from the ashes after being carpet-bombed and hit with nuclear weapons. “If you think about pandemics in the past,” noted Princeton economist Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, “they didn’t destroy cities.” That’s because cities are valuable. The New York metropolitan area generates more economic output than Australia or Spain. The San … Read more