Facebook meets Apple in clash of the tech titans ‘we need to inflict pain’
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. Updated: 13 Feb 2021, 01:43 PM IST The Wall Street Journal
The animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet
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Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has groused for years that Apple Inc. and its leader, Tim Cook, have too much sway over the social-media giant’s business. In 2018, his anger boiled over.
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Facebook was embroiled in controversy over its data-collection practices. Mr. Cook piled on in a national television interview, saying his own company would never have found itself in such a jam. Mr. Zuckerberg shot back that Mr. Cook’s comments were “extremely glib and “not at all aligned with the truth.
After right-wing extremists attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, and Twitter banned then-President Donald Trump from further postings on its platform, some wondered why the social network waited so long
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls Facebook to pieces
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently launched an attack on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over data collection practices
Apple CEO Tim Cook. PHOTO: REUTERS
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently launched an attack on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over data privacy. Speaking at the Brussels International Data Privacy Day Cook said ‘If a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform.’
Cook’s speech comes right after Facebook took out full-page ads in various newspapers criticizing Apple’s new privacy changes.
Apple Inc said on Thursday that new privacy pop-up notifications will start appearing on most iPhones as soon as “early spring,” a requirement that major digital advertising firms such as F
NEW YORK - Apple Inc Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on Thursday (Jan 28) criticised polarisation and misinformation on social media, intensifying a conflict between the iPhone maker and Facebook Inc. In remarks delivered at the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference, Cook critiqued apps that he argued collect too much personal information and prioritise "conspiracy theories and violent incitement.