Mark Zuckerberg Live Before US Senate: Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Elections in America, Brexit campaign and “Hate Speech”. We’ve already reported on Facebook’s data scandal this week. Now Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is speaking live to the US Senate on the ‘Cambridge Analytica’ case. Watch the questioning live on Bloomberg here.

Hearing Day 1: Throwback

Why is the data scandal so big?

Until now, it was always possible to retrieve information from friends of friends. So if resourceful developers create a tool that is used by people, they sign up for it and thus also give authorization for their personal data to be forwarded, you get large data packets (of many people) – from just one person. If a Facebook user has 500 friends on average, you can already cover 50,000 people (50,000 data packets) with just 100 people participating. We’ve all seen posts on our timelines titled “This is what you’d look like if you were an actor” or “What’s your zodiac sign?” These applications are … read more: Facebook data scandal.

Facebook goes “meta” – News

Facebook becomes “Meta” – Facebook announced today that the new name of the company, from now on will be “Meta”. This is not only about Facebook, but especially about the “Metaverse”, more about that in a moment.

Path to the Metaverse, Oculus Rift, and “Horizion”

Digital world – The branding should no longer be “only” focused on Facebook. After all, so much more belongs to the group, for example Oculus Rift, Whatsapp Messenger, but also Instagram. We also report on Horizon: The Digital World 1.0 and the first competition from Unity and Nvidia.

• Facebook goes “meta”