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‘The Real Facebook Oversight Board’ launches to counter Facebook’s ‘Oversight Board’

Today a group of academics, researchers and civil rights leaders go live on with ‘The Real Facebook Oversight Board’ which is designed to criticize and discuss the role of the platform in the upco

Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, calls for Facebook to be broken up

The latest call to break up Facebook looks to be the most uncomfortably close to home yet for supreme leader, Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” writes Chr

Jim Steyer runs the powerful nonprofit Common Sense Media; now he’s using his influence to battle big tech

California Governor Gavin Newsom earlier today proposed a so-called digital dividend that would let consumers share in the profits generated by California-based tech companies that have been “co

Famed investor Roger McNamee once advised Facebook — now he’s certain it’s destroying our democracy

A year ago, renowned investor Roger McNamee had much of Silicon Valley baffled. McNamee had made his name as a tech investor in the ’80s and ’90s before co-founding the private equity firm

How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging

Andrew Keen Contributor Andrew Keen is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. He produces Futurecast, and is the host of Keen On. More post

Elevation's LPs Refuse Extension for New Deals, Fund Riding on Facebook and Yelp

<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-214857" title="roulette-wheel1" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/roulette-wheel1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="265" height="202" /></a>The hit

Palm Pre To Come With Twitter Search And iTunes Sync

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/palm-pre-webosjpg-155x199.jpg" width="155" height="199" /> The Palm Pre will be Twitter friendly. In a demo of the Palm Pre at the D7 confer

Roger McNamee's Band Moonalice Gets 3000 Downloads From Twitter Concerts

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/41052v1-max-250x250-215x142.jpg" width="215" height="142" /> It's no surprise that bands and musicians are trying to harness the viral power