Daily Digest 11/26/2018 (Welcome Back)
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Mon, 11/26/2018
Monday, November 26, 2018
A big auction is the latest in America’s race to 5G
A brief Q&A with Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel.
November 2018
Conservative pundit Jesse Kelly's Twitter ban sparks outrage: 'New low' (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/26/2018 - 09:59Digging Deep Into Local News, A Small Newspaper In Rural Oregon Is Thriving (National Public Radio)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/26/2018 - 09:58America's Concentration Crisis
Google (Alphabet) had a whopping 91% share of the $59.7 billion market (revenue) for search engines in 2017. In the social media category, Facebook had 72% of the $25.6 billion share of revenue from social networking sites. In e-commerce, Amazon had a 49% share of the $525.9 billion revenue pie, followed by eBay at 7%.
Facebook’s Sandberg now says the company’s work with the political consultancy Definers crossed her desk
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted that she had received information about the company’s work with Definers, the Republican-affiliated consultancy that conducted opposition research into Facebook’s critics. Her comments, written in a blog post the night before Thanksgiving, appeared to walk back her statements from the week of Nov 12 in which she said she did “not know” Facebook had hired Definers.
House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Comey, Lynch over handling of Clinton emails (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sun, 11/25/2018 - 22:14Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to testify in front of seven countries’ lawmakers — but a lower-level official will appear
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has declined to testify at a rare joint hearing with lawmakers from seven countries, representing more than 368 million people. Instead, Facebook will dispatch Richard Allan, the company’s vice president of policy solutions, to answer questions at a Nov 27 hearing featuring top policymakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
On Black Friday, Amazon employees across Europe protested ‘inhuman’ working conditions (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sun, 11/25/2018 - 22:09UK Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers
UK Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs’ questions. The cache of documents is alleged to contain significant revelations about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It is claimed they include confidential emails between senior executives, and correspondence with Zuckerberg.