Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Daniel Cochrane: Mark Zuckerberg’s politics change like the wind

Daniel Cochrane, Senior Research Associate at The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, says Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s politics change based on who's in office. “We know how Facebook worked with the Biden administration to censor speech around COVID and all their other nefarious practices,” he points out.

Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, prompt a public apology tour from Mark Zuckerberg. Now we’ve learned from a slide presented toda…

Meta’s Recent Change in Approach to Political Content Sees 74% Rise in Referral Traffic

Meta’s recent altered approach to political content is doing the platform justice, as new stats showed a 74% YoY rise in referral traffic. And these are coming from some of the largest publisher platforms.As per the latest analysis on this front that was produced by Similarweb, the new approach to political and news domains opened up another key area to be explored regarding referral traffic. This might do great for those wanting to make use of …

Meta nearly launched ad-free Facebook in 2018

Meta’s board of directors considered introducing ad-free Facebook subscriptions in response to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in 2018, according to a slide obtained by The Verge presented during the FTC v. Meta trial. The proposal was part of the company’s efforts to address the backlash over its data handling practices. The suggested “Paid monthly subscription offering” aimed to allow users to access Facebook without ads, directly tacklin…

Facebook considered ad-free subscriptions after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, prompt a public apology tour from Mark Zuckerberg. Now we’ve learned from a slide presented today at FTC…