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Facebook Is Ubiquitous. But Will It Be Trusted?

by Conor Sen | Oct 17, 2017 | Opinion

This has been the year of Facebook. Its stock price has increased by around 50 percent as it continues to assert its dominance in user activity and digital ad revenue. It undercut one of the companies trying to catch up with it, Snap, by adding a similar feature,...

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Facebook Joins Food Delivery World

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 17, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London – Facebook launched a service through which its users can order food they want from the restaurants or websites like DoorDash, Chew Now and EatStreet without the need to leave the social media website. The Facebook Company, which runs the website,...

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Jonathan Labin, managing director of Facebook Middle East, North Africa & Pakistan. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Facebook Looking forward to Working with Saudi Arabia

by Musaid Al-Zayani | Oct 16, 2017 | Interviews

Dubai – Jonathan Labin, Managing Director of Facebook Middle East, North Africa & Pakistan, said that the social media platform is looking forward to collaborating with the government in Saudi Arabia. Labin told Asharq Al-Awsat that Facebook will be...

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Mark Zuckerberg, shown in Spain last year, defended his company this week from President Trump’s assertion that “Facebook was always anti-Trump.” Credit Pau Barrena/Bloomberg

Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

by Zeynep Tufekci | Oct 2, 2017 | Opinion

Responding to President Trump’s tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, defended the company by noting that Mr. Trump’s opponents also criticize it — as having aided Mr. Trump. If everyone is upset with...

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Facebook Marks the End of Social Media’s Wild West

by Conor Sen | Sep 27, 2017 | Opinion

The news that Facebook will turn over details of Russian ad buys to Congress recalls a column written by my colleague Eli Lake early year. He wrote that in forcing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to resign, President Donald Trump “caved in to his...