By Sam Gerrans | RT | January 5, 2016 Public opinion is increasingly influenced by mixing politics, business and entertainment with good causes. When Mark Zuckerberg announced he was giving away most of his money, people got excited. But charity and good causes are rarely what they seem. Politics – as the adage goes – […]
By Alfredo Lopez | This Can’t Be Happening! | December 17, 2015 When I was very young, my parents used to tell me why having “lots of toys” wasn’t a good idea. “The more you have, the more you want,” they would say. I didn’t have many toys — we were poor — so the […]
If Zuck wants a ‘gives 99% to of his stock to charity’ headline, he ought to earn it – by giving 99% of his stock to actual charities. Charities that aren’t named after him. Charities he doesn’t control.
— Ted Rall, CounterPunch, December 3, 2015
By Sadho Ram | SAYS | December 2, 2015 By now you must have heard that Mark Zuckerberg along with his wife Priscilla Chan has pledged to give away 99% of his estimated USD45 billion in Facebook stock to charity. Basically, Mark is giving away enough money to fund one of the world’s biggest charities […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was caught on a hot mic pressing Mark Zuckerberg to censor controversial speech yesterday.The post German Government Wants Facebook to Censor Controversial Speech appeared first on The Anti-Media.
The media was so quick to jump on the "dislike button" bandwagon that they didn't bother listening the actual announcement from Facebook.
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RINF — Terrifying new research shows Facebook’s ambitions to track users has gone far beyond the company’s ‘old’ technology that recognises users faces, which in itself poses a dizzying array of privacy concerns.
The new development, dubbed Pose Invariant PErson Recognition (PIPER), gathers information about your clothing, hairstyles and body shapes and currently holds a 83% accuracy rate, already incredibly high and is expected to increase even further.
Thomas Sheridan joins us to talk about the 2010 film The Social Network, which tells the story of the origins of facebook. We discuss the class struggle portrayed in the story, the mechanism by which the film could have been influenced by the CIA, the archetypes in the finely-produced melodrama that plays out, the CIA’s silicon valley network which is conspicuous by its absence from the narrative, and the meaning of the movie’s dark and brooding tone. We also get into some unusual areas, including the mystery of the sub sandwic
By Steve Straehley | AllGov | April 26, 2015 The idea sounds great—provide Internet access for the millions of people in developing areas that don’t have it. But in the process of putting that knowledge at the fingertips of that under-served community, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org has drawn a bright line between the haves […]
By Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report | October 15, 2014 Sierra Leone has waved the white flag in the face of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Its meager infrastructure has buckled under the onslaught of a disease which could have been curtailed. The announcement that infected patients will be treated at home because there is […]
