He’s young, charismatic, liberal — and loaded. Despite checking off some key boxes, Mark Zuckerberg insists he’s not plotting a run for the White House in 2020 — or the foreseeable future. “I’m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,” Zuckerberg, 32, told Buzzfeed. The Facebook CEO has…
Some Israeli soldiers now know better than they might like that you can be anyone on the Internet, following the country’s Military Intelligence Unit foiling a Hamas plot in which the militant group stole information from troops by posing as attractive women on social media. “Anyone who was infected, is not infected anymore. If it…
(JTA) — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his social media network that while he once questioned his Jewish upbringing, he now believes that “religion is very important.” The post came after he wished his followers a “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah” on Dec. 25, according to reports over the…
Lodewijk Asscher isn’t one to mince words when it comes to hatred on social media. The descendant of Holocaust survivors who is running for prime minister sent a shot across the bow of far right leader Geert Wilders with a 735-word Facebook post titled “Disrespectful Dog.” “Many of you possess a keen historical insight,” Asscher…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is pushing back against claims that fake news disseminated on the company’s pages helped Donald Trump win the election. “We don’t think it swayed the election,” Sandberg told NBC’s Today Show, “but we take that responsibility really seriously.” Fake news, or made-up stories, conspiracies and accusations, came to attention following the…
An Israeli civil rights organization just launched an online campaign attacking Facebook for inciting terrorism around the world. Facebook has faced a lot of criticism lately, especially for their handling of fake news stories. Last month, German prosecutors started investigating Mark Zuckerberg personally for Facebook’s slow removal of hate speech. Following the rampage by an…
While news media and social networks puzzle over how to combat fake news, internet activist Daniel Sieradski has developed his own scheme to fight the harmful phenomenon — a plug-in that alerts users of untrustworthy sites. Sieradski’s add-on to internet browsers, called “BS Detector,” flags content from websites that are recognized for propagating conspiracy theories,…
The Forward is getting slammed on social media for posting a story about Ivanka Trump’s kugel. On the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation NYC, a poster referred to the article as a “steaming pile of you know what.” “Honestly, shame on the Forward,” one commenter wrote. “It’s offensive in principle,” another wrote. Readers argued that the…
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