Category: Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg commits Facebook to $10 million donation to ‘groups working on racial justice’
Even as Facebook continues to take a hands-off approach to monitoring violent rhetoric and disinformation on its platform, the company will make a $10 million donation “to groups working on racial justice” in the U.S., according to a late Sunday night post from chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. The commitment from…
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Twitter said Trump broke its rules. Facebook allows the same posts.
If Twitter’s decision to hide Donald Trump’s tweet has amped up the pressure on Facebook to do the same, it hasn’t resulted in any noticeable action from the social network. Twitter said in a statement Trump’s words received the label “in the interes… Source
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Twitter screens Trump’s Minneapolis threat-tweet for glorifying violence
After applying a fact-checking label Tuesday to a misleading vote-by-mail tweet made by US president Donald Trump, Twitter is on a roll and has labeled another of the president’s tweets — this time screening his words from casual view with what it calls a “public interest notice” that states the tweet…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey disagree on fact checking the president
Mark Zuckerberg has waded into Twitter’s spat with Donald Trump over the decision to fact-check his tweets. In an interview with Fox News Thursday, Zuckerberg repeated that he doesn’t believe social media platforms should become the “arbiter of truth… Source
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Equity Morning: Remote work startup fundings galore, plus a major court decision
Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week. This is a messed-up edition, because we are both hosting Equity Monday on Tuesday (because that makes sense) and our normal host Alex Wilhelm is on vacation, leaving (editor’s note: poor and massively underpaid) managing…
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Daily Crunch: Facebook embraces remote work
Facebook takes more steps to support and expand a remote workforce, IBM announces layoffs and TechCrunch’s big annual conference is going virtual. (I know, I know — I have mixed feelings about it, too.) Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 22, 2020. 1. Facebook makes big remote work moves with…
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