Erin Egan, Vice President of U.S. Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook, discusses ways users can protect their data on the social network.
We press Egan on whether Facebook urging users to "take control of the ads you see" stems from Russian ads featured on the platform during the 2016 election. Egan notes that Facebook wants people to be in control of their experience and for them to enjoy spending time on the platform. She tells us she has conversations with her kids about doing regular privacy check-ups and urges other parents to do the same.
Microsoft has announced that it's hired Sam Altman and another co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that shocked the artificial intelligence world.
Many factors lie behind the disconnect, but economists increasingly point to one in particular: The lingering financial and psychological effects of the worst bout of inflation in four decades.
Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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