June 17, 2020 How to turn off political ads in your Facebook News Feed Facebook employees working in Facebook’s elections “War Room” to combat political misinformation on social media. | Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Tired of political…
June 17, 2020 More than 70 employees at Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy say it needs to change how it deals with race Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to do something about education in America since 2010, when he dedicated $100 million to “fixing” Newark’s schools. |…
June 17, 2020 Civil rights organizations want advertisers to dump Facebook Nearly 99 percent of Facebook’s revenue came from advertising in 2019. | Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images The NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and others…
June 17, 2020 Black authors are on all the bestseller lists right now. But publishing doesn’t pay them enough. The Best Books promotional table at Books-a-Million. | Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A social media campaign shows whose stories publishers value…
June 17, 2020 The billionaire founder of Netflix is giving $120 million to black colleges Reed Hastings, the founder of Netflix. | Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix It’s the biggest gift so far by any individual or couple for racial…
June 17, 2020 Facebook still won’t take down politicians’ misleading posts, but it’s trying to register 4 million new voters In a new op-ed, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is going to expand its efforts to register new voters on Instagram…
June 16, 2020 Facebook still won’t take down politicians’ misleading posts, but it’s trying to register 4 million new voters In a new op-ed, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is going to expand its efforts to register new voters on Instagram…
June 16, 2020 All eyes turn to Apple as antitrust investigations heat up Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Debating Ethics event at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, in 2018. | Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images As…
June 16, 2020 Netflix’s billionaire founder is secretly building a luxury retreat for teachers in rural Colorado His Colorado retreat is the latest in Reed Hastings’s decades-long attempt to figure out how exactly he wants to spend his now-$5 billion of…
June 15, 2020 Former eBay employees allegedly used spiders and swingers to cyberstalk newsletter authors The pig mask (left) and book about spousal death (right) that were allegedly sent to the producers of a newsletter. | FBI Feds charged…