When the latest episode of Saturday Night Live wasn’t focused on Kardashian-centric sketches, the show was slamming Facebook over a whistleblower’s scathing revelations into the social media company’s “betrayal of democracy,” with both the cold open sketch and Weekend Update dedicated to Facebook. “Internal documents show that Facebook knew their …
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Mark Zuckerberg will hop on perhaps the most scrutinized conference call of his life on Wednesday to testify, via video, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. For more than a year, the committee has been investigating potentially monopolistic practices by tech giants, and the Facebook CEO — who will …
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When Marshmello and Halsey wanted to tease their new song, “Be Kind,” at the end of April, they enlisted the help of the biggest TikTok star, Charli D’Amelio, to do so. On Wednesday, the pair employed another creative marketing initiative by launching “the first-ever musical experience” for Amazon‘s voice-activated Echo …
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Facebook Watch, the social platform’s destination for original video content, has announced The Biebers on Watch, a new series that follows the quarantine life of Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey Bieber. “Justin and Hailey Bieber open up their home and marriage to offer an exclusive look at their life …
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James Reader tried to do everything right. No fake news, no sloppiness, no spam. The 54-year-old teamster and San Diego resident with a progressive bent had a history of activism, but itched to get more involved. So a few years ago he tinkered with a blog called the Everlasting GOP …
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Samantha Bee finds Facebook‘s privacy policies disgusting. On Thursday’s Full Frontal, the host compared Mark Zuckerberg’s company to a flesh-eating monster. While it’s capable of “amazing things,” she said, “you can’t be surprised when a human skin-eating robot starts skinning people. That’s what you built it to do!” Bee summarized …
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