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Zuckerberg says Cambridge Analytica breached Facebook's trust, which caused Facebook to break users' trust, and vows to prevent it from happening again — I want to share an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation — including the steps we've already taken and our next steps to address this important issue.
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Zuckerberg and other execs are in denial about Facebook: it's not a force for good, having helped destroy industries and break societies and should be shuttered — It's not just about privacy; its core function makes people lonely and sad. — Facebook is enmeshed in another controversy …
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Facebook will roll out a tool next month atop News Feed that shows users which apps they've used and how to revoke permissions — - The founder and CEO had reportedly planned to wait until after the company's audit of the alleged mishandling of data before making any sort of comment.


Q&A with David Carroll, a New York professor who sued Cambridge Analytica in the UK under the Data Protection Act, hours before news of the scandal broke — iday, David Carroll filed a legal challenge in Britain asking the court to force Cambridge Analytica to disclose how it came …
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Facebook to audit apps with extended data access in 2014 and earlier, ban developers refusing audit, inform users of misuse, revoke permissions for unused apps — Protecting people's information is the most important thing we do at Facebook. What happened with Cambridge Analytica was a breach of Facebook's trust.


Chris Wylie says Breitbart's Steve Bannon approved Cambridge Analytica's 2014 work to collect Facebook data; firm used focus groups to test views on Putin, more — LONDON — Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's early efforts to collect troves of Facebook data …
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Facebook confirms Zuckerberg will speak publicly in the next 24 hours on Cambridge Analytica scandal, as stock market plunges wipe nearly $50B of its value
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Source: Mark Zuckerberg expected to address Facebook employees about Cambridge Analytica scandal at 1pm ET on Friday during the company's regular Q&A session
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comScore data shows Breitbart's readership has fallen by nearly 50%, a drop from 15M unique visitors in October to 7.8M in February — The onetime voice of the pro-Trump alt right struggles to find a niche without its driving force, Steve Bannon. — Breitbart, the alt-right news site …
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Les Payne, a former Newsday editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, and founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, has died aged 76 — Distinguished journalist was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and a chronicler of memorable events in a Newsday career of nearly four decades.
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Google's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, says YouTube will start putting more ads in between music videos to encourage subscriptions to upcoming music service — It's a cultural change for a company that was built on free — YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users …
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Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a Fox News contributor for 10 years, quits and denounces the network as a “propaganda machine” in email to colleagues — “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues. “Now I am ashamed.”
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Sources: Jimmy Iovine will transition into a consulting role in August and step back from daily involvement with Apple Music — The music executive and Beats co-founder will step back from daily involvement with Apple's streaming-music business — Apple Inc. AAPL -.03% is losing …
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A look at the potential impact of EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which grants standardized data protection rights to users across 28 countries — CONSUMERS HAVE LONG wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data.
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In a shock move, FremantleMedia CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz is leaving to join YouTube where she will head up its EMEA operations — The French exec was responsible for rebooting ‘American Idol’ and for shifting the global production giant towards high-end drama such as ‘American Gods’ and ‘The Young Pope’.