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Twitter has faced a big blow as Federal Trade Commission levied a USD 150 million fine on the microblogging site, alleging that the company illegally used peoples' personal data over six years to help sell targeted advertisements.
Charged with misrepresenting the security and privacy of user data for several years. Twitter avoided further legal trouble by paying $150 million. Who got the money?
As per Facebook's privacy engineers they do not have enough control to maintain standards regarding what data are gathered and how they are used.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to human rights and personal safety when any single person has complete control over policies affecting almost 400 million users. And in this case, that person has repeatedly demonstrated that they do not understand the realities of platform policy at scale.
With that, let's bring in our esteemed panel. zerlina maxwell, host of "zerlina" on peacock, ayman mohyeldin, host of msnbc's "ayman," and elise jordan, republican strategist. let's go right to the first revvie award, the ridicu-list. these are the events that i still can't believe happened in a year as bizarre as 2021. here are few of my picks to get us started. facebook goes meta. stuck in the suez. and trump: the blog. facebook's name change. the social network found itself under fire from the right and the left over user privacy and rampant misinformation, and mark zuckerberg decides the s...