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Thursday, January 26, 2017

In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line


Google and Facebook emphasized their efforts to combat the spread of false articles, but industry watchers say their measures have had little impact.
The New York Times
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and MIKE ISAAC from NYT Technology http://nyti.ms/2k2fx3V

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg met with China's propaganda chief





Mark Zuckerberg met with China's propaganda chief on Saturday, but his latest Facebook post on China skipped right over that.


 The Facebook (FB, Tech247) CEO shared photos of himself walking on the Great Wall, but made no mention of his meeting with Liu Yunshan, director of the Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department.

"I'm in Beijing for the China Development Forum, where I'm meeting Chinese leaders from the public and private sectors," he wrote on Monday.

Zuckerberg met with Liu the day after people called him out for "pandering" to the government for jogging through Beijing without a face mask.

According to a Chinese state media report, Zuckerberg is said to have praised China's accomplishments in the development of its Internet. He also reportedly said he wanted to better understand the country and work with China's tech leaders.

A Facebook spokeswoman told on Saturday that the two men discussed "the future of Internet development."

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Facebook is still banned in China, and it's unclear whether or not Zuckerberg talked about plans to change that status. The Facebook spokeswoman said she didn't have any further details to share.

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It's no secret that Zuckerberg has been trying to build relationships with China's leaders for years. It's a tricky tactic draws much-warranted scrutiny.

When Internet regulator Lu Wei visited the company's headquarters in December of 2014, Zuckerberg had a book by President Xi Jinping on his desk.

He visited Beijing earlier that same year -- and gave one of his first public talks entirely in Mandarin, then met with Wang Qishan, one of the seven Politburo Standing Committee members.

In the fall of 2015, he and other tech executives hosted Xi at a meeting in Seattle.

On the same day that he met with Liu, Zuckerberg also hosted a "fireside chat" with Alibaba (BABA, Tech247) founder Jack Ma at the China Development Forum. The conference is put on by the government's research arm.

The two tech leaders talked about virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship using Mandarin and Chinese.

Zuckerberg's public appearances in China indicate how proficient his Mandarin skills have become since he first started learning the language six years ago. 

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Facebook

Facebook activates Safety Check after Brussels attacks



Facebook


Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature, so people in Brussels can let loved ones know they're okay.


 A suicide bombing at the Brussels airport and an attack on the Brussels Metro on Tuesday left dozens dead and many more injured.

As in similar attacks and natural disasters, Facebook's Safety Check prompts people in the region to mark themselves as "safe."

In addition to themselves, people can declare other friends "Safe," "Unsafe," or "Not in the area." Safety statuses appear as a notification on their friends' Facebook accounts and News Feeds. Friends will then get an alert in their news feeds. That information could be listed on someone's profile or disclosed when using the "Nearby Friends" feature.

Facebook (FB, Tech247) unveiled Safety Check in 2014. The attacks on Paris four months ago were the first time that Facebook used Safety Check for a terror attack, previously only using the tool for natural disasters.

The Dutch Red Cross has also set up a safety check-in website, called "I am safe."

Google has not activated its Person Finder tool for Brussels, though it typically limits that to large-scale natural disasters. 

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