Tag: Facebook

North Carolina’s Lt. Governor Is A Facebook Brawler Whose Posts Railed Against Gays, Blacks, And Jews

By Hunter Walker | March 22, 2023 11:22 a.m.

Peter Thiel Slithers Away From Meta Board Of Directors To Boost Pro-Trump Candidates

By Cristina Cabrera | February 8, 2022 11:56 a.m.

Facebook Hosted Surge Of Misinformation And Insurrection Threats In Months Leading Up To Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

By Craig Silverman, Craig Timberg, Jeff Kao and Jeremy B. Merrill | January 4, 2022 12:02 p.m.

What Will 2022 Bring In The Way Of Misinformation On Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In

By Anjana Susarla, Dam Hee Kim and Ethan Zuckerman | December 31, 2021 10:14 a.m.

Facebook Has A Disinfo Problem. And It’s Blocking Access To Data About How Bad It Is.

By Ethan Zuckerman | November 2, 2021 1:28 p.m.

The Jan. 6 Committee Has The Right Idea: Now Congress Should Subpoena Zuckerberg

It’s time lawmakers take Facebook officials at their word and make clear that answering to the people’s representatives under oath is not optional.

By Jeff Hauser and Eleanor Eagan | October 15, 2021 1:09 p.m.

Where Things Stand: Facebook Whistleblower In Talks With Jan 6 Committee About Insurrection

This is your TPM evening briefing.

By Nicole Lafond | October 7, 2021 6:30 p.m.

The Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen — who I wrote about earlier this week — is expected to meet with the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the insurrection, and might have already shared testimony with the committee.

This is your TPM evening briefing.

By Nicole Lafond | October 4, 2021 6:18 p.m.

Facebook, Instagram and other applications owned by the social media giant are all down today. The company is describing the outage as “networking issues,” while tech sleuths and new reports suggest the problem might be bigger than that.

I won’t speculate on technology as I know nothing about technology. But the outage comes just one day after a previously anonymous former Facebook executive and whistleblower went on “60 Minutes” to make new allegations concerning the company’s apathy about the dangerous spread of far-right disinformation on the platform.