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Facebook, Big Brother and China
The political and media furore over external use of Facebook data misses the point. Facebook, Google and other internet giants know far more about their users than any app developer ever will. Facebook offers its own political ad-targeting service based on its analysis of users' data, just part of its over US$40bn of annual monetisation of users through advertising. It's a price that users appear willing to pay for the services, but in authoritarian states like China, with it's pending "Social Credit System" that poses a far bigger threat to society. (23-Mar-2018)
The political and media furore over external use of Facebook data misses the point. Facebook, Google and other internet giants know far more about their users than any app developer ever will. Facebook offers its own political ad-targeting service based on its analysis of users' data, just part of its over US$40bn of annual monetisation of users through advertising. It's a price that users appear willing to pay for the services, but in authoritarian states like China, with it's pending "Social Credit System" that poses a far bigger threat to society. (23-Mar-2018)
Facebook's investors criticize Marc Andreessen for conflict of interest
Bloomberg, 8-Dec-2016
Awful corporate governance at Facebook. Zuckerberg pushed through a scheme to create and distribute non-voting Class-C shares so that he can further reduce his investment without losing voting control. A so-called "independent committee" of 3 directors was established, including Andreessen, who secretly coached Zuckerberg on how to deal with them. Then he gets to vote it through at the shareholder meeting anyway.
Bloomberg, 8-Dec-2016
Awful corporate governance at Facebook. Zuckerberg pushed through a scheme to create and distribute non-voting Class-C shares so that he can further reduce his investment without losing voting control. A so-called "independent committee" of 3 directors was established, including Andreessen, who secretly coached Zuckerberg on how to deal with them. Then he gets to vote it through at the shareholder meeting anyway.
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