Meta forced to apologise for Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about Modi election ‘loss’ Indian lawmakers had warned of legal action if American tech giant did not apologise The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025
Meta To Cut 5% Of Workforce Amid Policy Changes Meta, formerly Facebook, plans to cut 5% of its workforce, focusing on low performers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to raise performance standards and swiftly ... Top News · Jan 15, 2025
Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’ Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2025
Zuckerberg Targets Underperformers: Inside Meta's Latest 5% Workforce Cut Facebook's parent business, Meta Platforms, intends to rehire the affected roles later this year but will lay off about 5% of its employees owing to poor performance. International Business Times · Jan 15, 2025
Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg To Attend Trump Inauguration: Report Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend Donald Trump's inauguration next week, NBC news reported Tuesday, further highlighting the tech moguls' efforts to develop closer ties with the incoming president. International Business Times · Jan 15, 2025
Tech Leaders Expected To Attend Trump Inauguration Tech leaders Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration. They have been engaging with the president-elect and his team. Top News · Jan 14, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg will cohost reception with Republican billionaires for Trump inauguration Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cohosting a reception with billionaire Republican donors next week for Donald Trump’s inauguration The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025
Three of the country’s most notorious billionaire rivals will sit together at Trump’s inauguration ANALYSIS: For years, the biggest tech giants have battled amongst themselves (remember when Zuckberg and Musk were going to have a cage match?). Now they are coming together in support of the president — and their own interests, writes Io Dodds The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025
Meta to trim 5% of its workforce, focusing on underperformers — Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management Meta will make performance-based cuts, slated to impact approximately 5% of its workforce based on performance. The company CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management. Windows Central · Jan 14, 2025
Tech billionaires get inauguration seats With a combined net worth just shy of $1 trillion, the titans of Big Tech will all attend Trump's inauguration Salon · Jan 14, 2025
Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to attend Trump’s inauguration together All three have been trying to get into Trump’s good books within the past year, with Musk donating hundreds of millions of dollars to help Trump win the 2024 election The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025
Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women Across the 2000s, a series of child sex exploitation cases affected British towns, including Telford, Rochdale, Oxford and Rotherham, scarring the lives of hundreds of children. In 2011, Times journalist Andrew Norfolk reported that networks – so-called “grooming gangs” – of largely British Asian men of Pakistani heritage had trafficked… The Conversation · Jan 14, 2025
Voices: Mark Zuckerberg is right – what the world needs is more ‘masculine energy’ COMMENT: In a world where violence against women and girls is rife and the gender pay gap is still very much a thing, writes Emma Clarke – why not add more toxic masculinity to the mix? The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025
Zuckerberg tells thousands of Meta staff he will cut them for being ‘low performers’ Meta boss reportedly told staff that the company was looking to ‘move out low-performers faster’. The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2025
Evening Standard · Jan 14, 2025 Meta ‘plans to cut 5% of lowest performing staff’ as Zuckerberg ‘raises the bar’ The Meta boss is reported to have told staff that the company was looking to ‘move out low-performers faster’.
Reason · Jan 14, 2025 Yes, Mark Zuckerberg, You Can Shout 'Fire' in a Crowded Theater Anyone discussing free speech should at least try to get this right.
Fortune · Jan 14, 2025 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle call for Meta to reverse its decision on fact-checking, which they say was fueled by ‘ego or profit’ The royal couple has a history of being mistreated by misinformation in the media.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2025 Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos are falling over themselves to suck up to the incoming president. And he’s just as keen to let them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
Newslaundry · Jan 14, 2025 Parliamentary panel to summon Meta over Zuckerberg’s remarks on 2024 Indian elections Demanding an apology from Meta, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology, said on Tuesday that the panel will summon the tech giant for spreading “wrong information”. This is after its CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly remarked that the incumbent government in India…
The Guardian - US · Jan 14, 2025 How to politicize the truth on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia Control the arbiters of facts and you wield truth itself as a cudgel
Fortune · Jan 14, 2025 Mark Zuckerberg remakes a 'masculine' Meta Zuckerberg told podcaster Joe Rogan that corporate America has rejected masculinity.
Salon · Jan 14, 2025 Zuckerberg’s gaslighting isn't working Mark Zuckerberg’s gaslighting about Meta’s shameful decision to end fact-checking is still very dangerous
Evening Standard · Jan 14, 2025 Tech leaders want us to ditch Meta and X, but what are they offering instead? Entrepreneurs and celebrities want to reclaim social media from billionaires. They hope to raise $30m to grow Bluesky, a social media app, into an ecosystem to rival Meta and X
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2025 Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties
The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2025 Why I have finally quit Facebook (it’s not just about fact-checking) For years I’ve overlooked the many good reasons for leaving the social media platform. But now there is no other choice, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams