![]() ![]() CEO Zuckerberg told analysts that Facebook has made progress dealing with the issues that have dogged it, including election interference, and privacy and security breakdowns. Just days before that came the unsealing of court documents that included internal memos showing Facebook knowingly let kid gamers rack up huge charges on their parents’ credit cards, calling it “friendly fraud.”īut Facebook’s fourth-quarter results last week handily beat analysts’ expectations, and the Menlo Park company reported growing user numbers worldwide despite all the company’s scandals and controversies. (Courtesy Penguin Press)įacebook’s latest PR headache came last week in reports the company was paying users as young as 13 up to $20 a month to install an app that allowed Facebook to track their phones’ activity - in the name of market research, and against Apple’s privacy policies. The cover of “Zucked,” Roger McNamee’s book about Facebook, which publishes Feb. ![]() That was McNamee’s assessment during an interview with this publication about his new book, which comes out Feb. SAN FRANCISCO - As if to underscore why Roger McNamee, an early adviser to Mark Zuckerberg, wrote a book called “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” Facebook had a “helluva week” before the book’s publication. ![]()
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