As Mark Zuckerberg continues to cement himself as CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s most amoral tech titans ” namely by profiting of the slow erosion of democracy ” his company has managed to sink to a new level of abhorrent by pitching a tool that could be used to…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that whatever you do on Facebook eventually comes back to you in the form of targeted ads. It turns out, however, that Facebook’s advertising tools have also marked hundreds of thousands of children as interested in gambling and alcohol, opening them up to some…
As Facebook works to undo the damage of years of user data scandals — ostensibly with an overhauled focus on “privacy,” or something — part of that effort has involved rolling out features geared at greater transparency that, quite frankly, should have been introduced years ago. But here we are.