Being Mark Zuckerberg isn’t easy
Is the Facebook founder willing to act boldly to fix a company in crisis?
Indian PM ‘spied on voters’
It has been claimed Narendra Modi’s smartphone app sends users’ personal data to a third party website without consent.
Facebook losing more friends
How many conversations have you had this past week about Facebook? In particular, about people shutting it down?
A sucker born every minute
Most people have been so pampered by our safety-conscious society that they don’t think twice about the dangers online
Facebook’s ‘creepy’ call log
Facebook has collected detailed phone records of millions of users including who they spoke with or sent messages to and when.
You quit Facebook. What now?
There are options out there for those fed up with Facebook, but they are not everyone’s cup of tea.
Advertisers take on web giants
In the past year and a half, Facebook and Google have had one run-in after another with advertisers.
Legacy news finds its teeth
The tardiness in responding to the Cambridge Analytica scandal speaks volumes about how serious this is for Facebook.
Keep focus on data vultures
The principal question of online privacy is being lost in debates about partisan politics.
Advertisers won’t trust Facebook
The events of the past week concerning Facebook are more than a fundamental breach of trust; they mark a watershed moment.
Losing friends, infuriating people
Facebook’s disregard for the privacy of its users is costing it dearly.
Big Tech needs to get it together
Facebook faces a reputational meltdown. This is how it, and the wider industry, should respond.
Facebook boycott begins
Leading brands pull their advertising from Facebook as a UK minister warned the company could face fines of more $1.8bn.
Apologies are in a sorry state
A guide to the non-apology apology and other crisis management techniques.
Uni alarm over data harvesting
Cambridge University was warned in 2015 that Aleksandr Kogan was harvesting data from millions of Facebook users.
Facebook faces ad revolt
Advertisers threatened to abandon Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had bungled the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Unlikely to kill golden goose
Doubts have been raised over Mark Zuckerberg’s promised clampdown on the commercial use of people’s data.
Can we still be friends?
Mark Zuckerberg has finally apologised over Facebook’s role in the misuse of data on 50 million social-media users.
‘Bosses failed to act on risks’
The Facebook leak to Cambridge Analytica was “worse than a data breach”, a whistleblower said yesterday.
Zuckerberg’s empty promises
And Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg has White House-sized ambitions. Are they now dead?
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