Stephen Maher: Millions of voters were led believe things that weren’t true, aided by Trump, Russia and social media. The West is finally waking up to the threat.
Ron Tite rants about why you shouldn’t blame Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and why targeted advertising backed by real data on platforms like Facebook is actually amazing.
At the House of Commons ethics committee and in an interview with Maclean’s, Charlie Angus questioned Facebook’s political ties in Ottawa and lack of lobbying registration
In light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, users talk about how their feelings towards sharing their data online have shifted, or not.
Congress hit Mark Zuckerberg with some searing questions on day two of his Facebook hearing.
Stephen Maher: A 2009 Canadian investigation warned about Facebook’s data collecting. It was right all along. And Zuckerberg’s apologies won’t fix this crisis.
Canadians take a dim view of the platform, a new poll by Angus Reid Institute suggests, but only one in 10 users is ready to suspend or delete it
We’ve created a monster, writes Tabatha Southey—and the way Facebook is embedded into our lives means it will be a problem to fix, rather than quit
The debate around personal data has largely focused on privacy as an individual choice. The Cambridge Analytica scandal shows how little choice we actually have
Opinion: Welcome to the age of ‘surveillance capitalism’ where highly personalized information and psychological models are leveraged to change consumers’ behaviour and sway their opinions