By Sarah Frier
Published: March 28, 2018 – 4:08 PM PDT
Updated:   March 28, 2018 –  5:52 PM PDT

• Zuckerberg asking Facebook teams to review data practices
• Changes could make it harder for advertisers to pinpoint users

Facebook Inc. is conducting a broad review of all its data practices and taking a much more conservative stance on some policies, moves that could limit advertisers’ ability to target users on the social network, according to people familiar with the matter.

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They are not known as ‘weapons of mass distraction’ for nothing…

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By Tyler Durden
Oct 29, 2016 – 9:30 PM

In the 24 hours since FBI Director Comey dropped perhaps the biggest bombshell of the entire Presidential campaign, sending Democrats (and media) scrambling headless-chicken-like for answers (and blame-scaping), does anyone else find it odd that ‘FBI Emails’ does not appear to be a hot topic, trending, big deal on any social media?

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Michael Nunez
May 9, 2016 – 09:10am

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.

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The spy agency is not above infecting networks with malware by posing as the social-media site, according to newly released Snowden files.

By Dustin Volz
March 12, 2014

This just in from the Edward Snowden vault of government secrets: The National Security Agency is breaking into “potentially millions of computers worldwide” and infecting them with malware “implants” as part of an effort that is increasingly relying on automated systems and not human oversight, according to a by First Look Media report published Wednesday.

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According to one analyst estimate
By Christopher Matthews @crobmatthews
Jan. 15, 2014

Skeptics of Facebook’s business model have long pointed to anecdotal evidence that the social network is losing its luster with teens as evidence that the firm will ultimately be unable to justify its $140 billion valuation. Indeed, even Facebook itself admitted last fall that it had lost younger users. “We did see a decrease in [teenage] daily users [during the quarter], especially younger teens,” Facebook chief financial officer David Ebersman said during a call with analysts.

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Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:07pm GMT

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.4 million shares worth about $2.3 billion to pay a tax bill, as part of an offering by the social network of 70 million Class A common shares.

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By Jessica Guynn
June 14, 2013, 7:14 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO — Looking to shield itself from a growing public backlash over damaging revelations that it turned over user data to the National Security Agency’s clandestine Internet surveillance program Prism, Facebook said late Friday it had reached an agreement to divulge some details about the government requests it receives for information about its users.

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