Shares of Facebook and Twitter plunged on Friday after consumer goods giant Unilever said it would pull advertisements from the social media platforms in the U.S. for at least the rest of the year
The social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds after a series of advertisers threaten to boycott the site over 'hate speech'.
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. /Reuters A handful of U.S. companies have pulled advertising from Facebook Inc in support of
Wall Street stocks sank Friday as surging coronavirus cases prompted large U.S. states to impose new public health restrictions, threatening the economic recovery following widespread business shutdo
As advertisers pull away from Facebook to protest the social networking giant’s hands-off approach to misinformation and hate speech, the company is instituting a number of stronger policies to
Advertiser momentum against Facebook’s content and moentization policies continues to grow.Last night, Verizon (which owns TechCrunch) said it will be pausing advertis
Just two years after launch, Facebook announced today that it’s discontinuing the Oculus Go, the least powerful and least expensive virtual reality headset that the company sold.Facebook CEO Ma
Months after India’s richest man launched his telecom network, his chief rival, Sunil Mittal, was already struggling to contain his frustration in the public.That tycoon Mukesh Ambani would try to wi
Twitter added a "manipulated media" label on a video posted on U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on Thursday that showed a doctored news clip with a misspelled banner flashing "Terrified
Facebook on Thursday said it removed ads by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that contained a symbol used in Nazi Germany for political prisoners. "We don't allow symbols that represent
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully ended the federal policy providing temporary legal status for immigrants who came to the country as chi
Beginning today, Facebook users in the U.S. will have the option to “turn off” all political advertising on the platform. The company made the controversial decision not to fact-check or
Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service rolled out a system across Brazil on Monday that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payments as they w
“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York
Facebook Inc. fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump this month, citing his tweet
Mark Zuckberg and Priscilla Chan have penned a response to an open letter sent last week by a group of over 140 scientists who are working on projects funded by the Chan Zuckberberg Initiative. The l
Amid a heavier focus on race, diversity and inclusion in light of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, Facebook is making its chief diversity officer, Maxine Williams, report dire