Turns Out ‘The Social Network’ Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg
The Facebook CEO was on display in Washington, and now the movie looks more predictive than ever.
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The Facebook CEO was on display in Washington, and now the movie looks more predictive than ever.
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Facebook Confirms It Scans Your Private Pictures and Messages
In an interview published earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that his company is scanning people’s Messenger accounts for content that doesn’t abide by their policy. The comment…
Elon Musk Joins #DeleteFacebook As Zuckerberg’s Company Fights Legal Trouble
Earlier this month, a whistleblower revealed that Facebook’s information center was compromised in a huge data breach that led to Cambridge Analytica harvesting the information of over 50 million users.…
Facebook Will Show You What Russian Propaganda You’ve Liked and Followed
At this point, it’s pretty much common knowledge that Russian operatives used Facebook to influence the 2016 presidential election by creating fake news accounts that sold divisive political ads and…
5 Questions to Ask Before Posting To Social Media
I was a freshman in college when Facebook came out and I distinctly remember thinking, “why would I need this? I have AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace!” Well, times have…
Former Facebook President Says Creators Intentionally “Exploited” Human Psychology
In a recent interview with Axios co-founder Mike Allen, former Facebook president Sean Parker alleges that the creators of the social media platform “knowingly exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.”…
Facebook Exec: ‘We Definitely Don’t Want to Be the Arbiter of the Truth’
We live in a weird time where people talk about lies as “fake news” or “alternative facts.” And whenever these terms are surfacing, you can be sure Facebook is pretty…
Facebook, Politics and Christianity
My cursor hovered on the “write a comment” section. I really hate Facebook debates. But the kind of speech I saw was, to me, intolerable. Inexcusable. Inconsistent with the values I…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Finally Getting a Degree
It looks like Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg will be getting a degree after all. The CEO of Facebook originally attended the university back in 2005, but left to grow his…
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Meeting With Pastors Is So Significant
The doors of Facebook literally sit a few exits away on the freeway from where I live in Silicon Valley and I can walk to Google just down my street. But…
Social Media Addiction Is Real. Here’s How You Can Break It
Have you ever noticed that your greatest need can produce your greatest vulnerability? It seems like a thin line exists between seeking the fulfillment of a genuine need and allowing…
How Social Media Made Me a Better Person
You often hear about the dangers of social media, including: narcissism, wasted time, envy of the lives of others, lack of integrity or the temptation to restart unhealthy relationships. Of…
Beyond Image Control
The people who have it all together are the very people we don’t relate to, envy or even resent. So why do we spend so much time editing photos, carefully constructing bios and perfecting our profile to be exactly what we want others to see? And what would happen if we didn’t?
Party Foul
My friend Drew said the only thing worse than watching the political debates is looking at Facebook after the debates. He’s right. Facebook is a bad habit most of the…
The Irony of Our “Accessibility”
Columnist Will Anderson writes about a conversation he had with two homeless men that caused him to consider true accessibility versus the “accessibility” of social networks like Twitter and Facebook.