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On Yom Kippur, the Jewish "Day of Atonement," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was ready to confess remorse. "For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness,'' he wrote on his personal page.
Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to a Russian ad agency. Company officials will meet with the House and Senate intelligence committees and the Senate Judiciary Committee to hand over the ads, a Facebook official said.
Facebook Inc said it plans on Monday to turn over to the U.S. Congress copies of some 3,000 ads that the social network says were bought on Facebook likely by people in Russia in the months before and after the 2016 U.S. election. Last month, in response to calls from U.S. lawmakers, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged to hand over the ads to congressional investigators who are looking into alleged Russian involvement in the U.S. presidential election, but he had left the timing unclear.
Facebook Inc founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people in a Facebook posting marking the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement on Saturday. "For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better," Zuckerberg said in the post.
Shortly after last year's presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Facebook, dismissed as "a pretty crazy idea" the notion that fake news might have decided the contest in Donald Trump's favor. Last week he had to admit that he regrets those words.
Facebook says it will give Congress copies of 3,000 Russian-bought political ads on Monday, giving lawmakers a clearer picture into how a pro-Kremlin troll farm used social media to meddle in American politics. Facebook is not planning to release the ads to the public, and will not commit to sharing publicly greater details about the content of the ads and who they reached.
Facebook Inc said it plans on Monday to turn over to the US Congress copies of some 3,000 ads that the social network says were bought on Facebook likely by people in Russia in the months before and after the 2016 US election. Last month, in response to calls from US lawmakers, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged to hand over the ads to congressional investigators who are looking into alleged Russian involvement in the US presidential election, but he had left the timing unclear.
Facebook says it will give Congress copies of 3,000 Russian-bought political ads on Monday, giving lawmakers a clearer picture into how a pro-Kremlin troll farm used social media to meddle in American politics. Facebook is not planning to release the ads to the public, and will not commit to sharing publicly greater details about the content of the ads and who they reached.
The extent to which hackers and other shadowy operatives from Russia meddled in the U.S. election last November seems to be expanding as additional evidence comes to light. Facebook has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that the social-media company sold and displayed over 3,000 political advertisements related to the U.S. election that were created in Russia.
But now it's really scary, given what we've discovered about the power of his little invention to warp democracy. All these years, the 33-year-old founder of Facebook has been dismissive of the idea that social media and A.I. could be used for global domination - or even that they should be regulated.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday Russia-linked ads on the huge social network aimed at inflaming tensions around last year's US presidential election will be given to Congress. News of the decision came with word that Facebook is cracking down on efforts to use the leading social network to meddle with elections in the US or elsewhere.
The social media giant is finally giving Congress information about Kremlin-backed election posts. Will our lawmakers make good on their pledges to share it with the public? It was just last week when congressional investigators said they favored more transparency to the general public about exactly which Facebook posts a Kremlin-backed troll farm used to target Americans with anti-immigrant rhetoric-and even rallies on U.S. soil .
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially said the company's social media platform was not a factor in the 2016 presidential election. Now his firm faces growing scrutiny after it revealed Russians bought $150,000 in electon-related Facebook ads in the two years beginning in June 2015.
TomA s Evangelista's status as undocumented immigrant thwarted his dream to join the military and made it hard for him to find a job. Now he's trying to help other Dreamers like him - immigrants without papers who arrived in this country as children - contend with similar and more pressing problems including homelessness.
Teenagers are going on Facebook less and less, so much so that an analysis group predicts a 3.4 percent drop in users ages 12 to 17 in comparison to 2016. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in June that it reached a new milestone of 2 billion active users per month, potentially showing that while users are up in general, the younger generation is not as keen to the tech company's services and capabilities.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, hired a Democratic pollster and former top advisor to President Barack Obama as a consultant, according to a report from Politico. The report, citing a person familiar with the matter, said Joel Benenson and his company, Benenson Strategy Group, will conduct research for the couple's philanthropy - the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have hired a Democratic pollster, increasing speculation that the Facebook CEO is considering entering the political arena, according to a Politico report published on Wednesday. The pollster, Joel Benenson, is a former top adviser for Barack Obama and was chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Many of the nation's top tech CEOs met with President Donald Trump again at the White House on Monday, but there were some notable exceptions: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX. Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott, himself a former businessman, said that created a "missed opportunity" for them.
China and Europe have pledged to unite to save "Mother Earth" in the face of US President Donald's Trump's decision to take the world's second largest carbon polluter out of the Paris climate change pact. "Only I can do that", he said , a reference to his role in the "Terminator" franchise.