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Highlights from CNN's interview of Mark Zuckerberg: “I'm really sorry that this has happened” and that he is “happy to” testify before Congress — Mark Zuckerberg is responding to the fallout following the revelation that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of 50 million Facebook users.
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars” — In a wide-ranging interview, the Facebook CEO admitted that the social networking giant may have made mistakes in opening up its network so much a decade ago.
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Mark Zuckerberg:
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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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown says it was “not probably our wisest move” to threaten to sue The Guardian over Cambridge Analytica stories — Facebook was blindsided by the user-data scandal that has grabbed the headlines in the past week …
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Facebook:
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
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
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
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Facebook will roll out a tool next month atop News Feed that shows users which apps they've used and how to revoke permissions
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Bloomberg:
Starting in April, YouTube will ban videos that promote or link to sites selling guns and videos showing how to assemble guns; some accounts already affected — Google's new policy prohibits promotion of guns, bump stocks — At least one video gun blogger ditched YouTube for PornHub
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Jordan Cohen / The New York Times Company:
Caity Weaver is leaving GQ to join New York Times' Styles desk and be a writer-at-large for the magazine — Caity Weaver, a stylish and frequently hilarious writer at GQ, will join the Styles desk. She will also be a writer-at-large for the magazine. Read more in this note from Choire Sicha, Jake Silverstein and Carolyn Ryan:
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Hewlett Foundation report on social media, political polarization, and disinformation finds that while research into fake news is growing, much remains unknown — A big new report from the Hewlett Foundation pulls together existing research on social media, political polarization …
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@shansquared, @joseph_santoro and @niemanlab
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube rolls out a new feature that lets users “go live” directly from the desktop site without encoding software, currently only supported in Chrome — YouTube today is rolling out a new feature that will allow video creators to start a live stream from their web cam without …
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Android Community, SlashGear and BGR
Firat Kozok / Bloomberg:
Turkey passes a law requiring video streaming companies and pay-TV services to apply for a license from radio and TV watchdog RTUK; stance on YouTube unclear — Bill will allow government to censor programs on Netflix — Implications for YouTube, other video services remain unclear
Eli Sanders / The Stranger:
Facebook's disclosures on Seattle's 2017 municipal elections show how former city attorney candidate used misleading ads to target certain neighborhoods — Could micro-targeting of politically inflammatory Facebook ads happen in Seattle, too? It already has.
Jack Crosbie / Columbia Journalism Review:
As America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, veterans have launched sites like The War Horse and Task and Purpose to cover military affairs — America's wars in the Middle East, Thomas Brennan likes to joke, are now officially old enough to drive. Afghanistan, the eldest child …
Dan Primack / Axios:
Source: Meredith CEO met with Time, Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated about effort to sell magazines; more layoffs to come later but some jobs may move to Iowa — Meredith Corp. CEO Tom Harty today held meetings with the staffs of several magazines recently acquired in the Time Inc. merger …
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