President-elect Donald Trump and Silicon Valley executives met at his Manhattan tower on Wednesday to smooth over frictions after both sides made no secret of their disdain for each other during the presidential campaign. The meeting may skirt the numerous disagreements the tech industry has with Trump — including on immigration, the trade relationship with…
In the New Yorker, Amy Davidson offers a list of thirteen women who might make strong presidential candidates the next time around. Davidson notes that qualifications in politics are no longer required for the job, thus opening the field to successful people from all professions. Number six on the list is Sheryl Sandberg, who would…
Top executives from Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc are among a small group of tech leaders invited to a summit to be held on Wednesday by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Recode reported, citing sources. Executives from Microsoft Corp, Intel Corp and Oracle Corp will also be among “a very heady group of less…
We have, on the one hand, an Ohio legislator, active in getting an anti-abortion “heartbeat” bill approved, offering the following response, in 2012, to a reporter who’d asked him why he imagines women opt to get abortions: “It’s a question I’ve never even thought about.” (More context tells you that he gestured first at “economics,”…
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…
German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to react to the onslaught of hate speech on their platform as well as for not deleting posts denying the Holocaust. European countries like Germany have much stricter laws against hate speech than the United States. German law requires Facebook Germany to delete…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have built Facebook into the world’s largest social media site. Some think the two have also created the world’s largest news media site – and not everyone is happy about that. The average Facebook user has too many friends and follows too many pages for the site to display all…
Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook chief operating officer and women’s empowerment advocate, could be leaning in too far for some in the Democratic Party’s liberal base, according to a report in Politico. Rumored to be a top pick for Treasury Secretary in a potential Clinton administration, she is turning heads among many lefties who see her…
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