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Billionaire financier George Soros has written to the Financial Times, calling for Facebook bosses Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to leave Facebook. He argued the social media platform's refusal to remove political ads was "helping to get Donald Trump re-elected".
It is the ultimate "gentleman's agreement". Rather than compete for females, male long-tailed manakins co-operate with their friends. The tropical birds pair up to perform a courtship song and dance, but the alpha male gets the girl every time. Meanwhile his "wingman" spends five years playing second fiddle. But he eventually inherits the mating site.
2009-02-15
dance bird cooperation competition social Facebook evolutionThe founder of Facebook has tried to dampen a growing row over the ownership of user data on the social network.
2009-02-17
Facebook privacy data ownership social network file sharingIt's become a daily ritual for millions, but what happens when you deactivate your Facebook account and go cold turkey? Caroline Hocking - a self-confessed obsessive - finds out.
2009-10-12
Facebook social network addictionStaff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses £1.38bn every year.
2009-10-26
Twitter inefficiency Facebook time office work distractionFacebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site.
2009-11-20
friendship Facebook business toread SPAMGoogle has taken the wraps off its latest social network known as Buzz. The service - integrated directly with its e-mail service Gmail - allows users to post status updates, share content and read and comment on friends' posts.
2010-02-09
Google Buzz social network Gmail Facebook TwitterEnclosure is a process whereby a resource held in common is taken into private control. The acts of enclosure of the industrial age were about land, they were brutal and conspicuous, and they were implemented, to a large degree, by force. The acts of enclosure of the information age are about social assets, they are subtle and invisible, and they are being implemented, to a large degree, by peer pressure. Although the larger dynamic of...
2009-06-30
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