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Why ‘Mark Zuckerberg is the most dangerous person in the world,’ according to this NYU business professor
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  • Source: CNBC
  • 12/31/2020

As the CEO of Facebook, a business that has the attention of billions of people, Mark Zuckerberg has incredible power. And that’s what makes the Facebook chief executive “the most dangerous person in the world,” New York University Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway said on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close” on Wednesday.

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Facebook gets dumped from an S&P index that tracks socially responsible companies
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  • Source: CNBC
  • 12/31/2020

Facebook will no longer be included in the S&P ESG Index that tracks companies that practice good environmental, social and governance policies.

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Are Facebook, Twitter, Google evil or just everywhere? What we have to do about big tech.
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  • Source: USA Today
  • 10/05/2020

Facebook, Twitter and Google were seen as white knights of progress, but now there is a lot more skepticism about their effects and their intentions.

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One of Facebook’s Founders Warns of Zuckerberg's ‘Near-Unilateral Power'
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  • Source: Bloomberg
  • 12/31/2020

Days after calling on the U.S. government to break up Facebook Inc., one of the company’s co-founders amplified his concerns over the level of Mark Zuckerberg’s sway across the social media empire and its billions of users.

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Former Facebook insiders have turned into some of its harshest critics — here’s a rundown
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  • Source: CNBC
  • 12/31/2020

Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes on Thursday called on regulators to break up the company.

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If you’re still considering whether or not to get off of Facebook, here’s one good reason you should
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  • Source: Medium
  • 12/31/2020

Hint: it’s not because of fake news or Zuckerberg‘s inhuman tendencies

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Twitter Is a Hateful Place by Design
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  • Source: GQ
  • 10/05/2020

Why won't Jack Dorsey ban Alex Jones? Because places like InfoWars have always been instrumental to Twitter's success.

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The Big, Bad List Lawsuits Against Facebook

This year hasn’t done any good to Facebook. After dealing with sustained backlash from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Zuckerberg and Co. have doubled efforts to reassure the masses that change is on the way. But if public opinion was any indication then according to a poll by Survey Monkey and Recode Facebook is the least-trusted major tech company.

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Former Facebook exec won't let own kids use social media, says it's 'destroying how society works'
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  • Source: Fox News
  • 12/31/2020

Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and the CEO of venture capital firm Social Capital, said in a November interview that social media is damaging society and voiced concerns about its impact on his own children.

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