

It is good to have a social media account in today’s world, especially a Facebook account, which helps us stay connected to our friends and be in touch with the happenings in our state.įacebook has always been around for people who want to connect and share memories and pictures of the things they do in real life.

It is good to see people using social media to ease their problems, but it comes with a fair chance of suffering consequences if misused. Nwangwu is the Publisher of the first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper on the internet, USAfricaonline.Who Owns Facebook – The world of social media is ever-evolving, and everything in it keeps changing due to the overwhelming effect on the modern world. The second face of Facebook is the one which relentlessly and without any meaningful and consistent restraints to its deviously calibrated addictive, digital packages to get more clicks, more hits and more users and exponential financial returns There is the face of Facebook which opens and connects people to Instant and live social interactivity across the world.

And, you never know, maybe tomorrow he may add a new feature to allow us to like and comment on which of the Taliban leaders has the longest and sexiest mustache? The second face of Facebook is the one which relentlessly and without any meaningful and consistent restraints to its deviously calibrated addictiveĭigital packages to get more clicks, more hits and more users and exponential financial returns!Īnyway, for now, it is Mark Zuckerberg’s world and we all live in it.Īt least, he’s running a “democracy” of sorts because the young man allows us to like and comment on cat videos, taco brands…. The bottom line is that Facebook has two faces. She called out what she categorized as Facebook’s reckless disregard for public safety, citing the point that only a few days before the January 6th Capitol Hill insurrection unleashed mainly by the supporters of ex President Donald Trump, Facebook turned off internal settings meant to fight election misinformation. Therefore, she called on the lawmakers to pass new, tough regulations for all of America’s social media corporations. Repeatedly, Haugen said Americans deserve transparency and respect for privacy from the tech powerhouse. She specifically made it clear that Facebook puts profits over safety and well-being of its users - including teenagers on Instagram. She argued that the acquisition and retention of millions of users are the foremost driving factors for the social media giant. That is, regardless of the global outage. She’s the evidently credible and persuasive whistleblower! She appeared before the U.S Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Monday. This was the day after the Sunday, October 3 explosive interview on the most-respected and highest-rated news show in America, ’60 Minutes.’įacebook critic at this time came in the person of Facebook’s former product manager Frances Haugen. The world was largely quiet on Monday October 4, 2021. Zuckerberg & Company classified the curious outages as an error from a “configuration change.“ The fact of the matter is that some people did not believe that Facebook would let three of its mega-sites to go down, at the same time - arising from some configuration updates! Anything is possible. Only four days ago, the influence, power and leverage of the Facebook corporation were manifested in the form of a worldwide outage. There are, at least, 30 other smaller companies with critical technology engagement functions working and ferreting information for the behemoth call Facebook. The three most visible and almost unavoidable platforms on the Internet are Instagram, WhatsApp, and the ubiquitous social app itself, Facebook! Chido Nwangwu inquires into the gripping world of Mark Zuckerbergįacebook is the most influential media company in the world, today! It’s market capitalization value is currently US$922 billion.įrom Belgrade to Baghdad, from Zamfara to Bangalore, from Jerusalem to Jakarta, from Zurich to Aba, the most visited social media sites are owned by Facebook led by Mark Zuckerberg.
