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SNL’s take on the Facebook whistleblower hearing reminds us of the good old MySpace days
Remember when Tom was your first friend on social media?
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Facebook is trying to stop the sale of Amazon rainforest land on its Marketplace
Yes, somehow that’s been happening
The world's largest social network has more than 2 billion daily users, and is expanding rapidly around the world. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook undergirds much of the world's communication online, both through its flagship app and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Despite huge financial success, Facebook is also confronted with questions about data privacy, hate speech on the platform, and concerns that frequent social media use can lead to unhappiness. The Verge publishes a nightly newsletter about Facebook and democracy, subscribe here.
Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers have known for years
Efforts to minimize the findings aren’t good for trust
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
In Arizona, Facebook’s content moderators get through the day with sex, drugs, and guns
Verge Tech Survey 2021
After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up
Facebook runs the coward’s playbook to smear the whistleblower
The Big Tobacco playbook is underway. Also: where’s Zuck?
What is BGP, and what role did it play in Facebook’s massive outage
Charting the digital seas
Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus
‘Networking issues’ took the sites down just before noon ET
Everything you need to know from the Facebook whistleblower hearing
Congress will hear new concerns about child safety on the world’s largest social network
