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Facebook parent Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are under siege

Facebook parent Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are under siege

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Everyone’s coming for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta On Monday, Washington D.C.’s attorney general cited Cambridge Analytica in a new lawsuit seeking to hold Meta (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible for the social media giant’s privacy lapses. For those unaware, the consulting firm is… Source link

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Capitol Hill siege 'may be the beginning of the end of Big Tech': Scott Galloway – Yahoo Tech

Capitol Hill siege 'may be the beginning of the end of Big Tech': Scott Galloway – Yahoo Tech

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link

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Airbnb, Facebook, Google press pause on political donations after Capitol siege

Airbnb, Facebook, Google press pause on political donations after Capitol siege

Facebook, Google, Airbnb and Lyft are among Bay Area companies freezing some political donations in the wake of last week’s U.S. Capitol rampage by a mob incited by President Trump. The moves, along with similar ones from other major corporations nationwide, could prove significant, since business-backed political action committees provide considerable funding for the campaigns of incumbent members of… Source link

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Google pauses federal campaign contributions after U.S. Capitol siege

Google pauses federal campaign contributions after U.S. Capitol siege

FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will pause all campaign donations from its political action committee, a spokesman said, in the wake of the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol and efforts to block the certification of election results “We have frozen all NetPAC political contributions while we review and reassess its policies… Source link

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