The Facebook Controversy

Facebook is starting to “crack down” on fake news articles throughout the social media website. However, Katrina Trinko says, Facebook’s fact-checkers have a liberal bias. Trinko believes that many of the fake articles on Facebook are withholding information that is containing the whole truth. She believes that these “fact-checkers” are more likely to crack down on conservative views instead of the liberal views. (Katrina Trinko Facebook fact-checkers have a liberal bias) Facebook like other social media sites, have been accused of posting fake articles across their website. According to the PEW research center, sixty-seven percent of Americans rely on social media for their news coverage (News use across social media platforms 2016: Jeffrey Gottfried and Elisa Sherer). While social media has been known to show “fake news”, this has a huge impact on the influence of the viewers (mostly being American teenagers). Whenever there has been fake news across Facebook, there are circumstances where the fake news will be shared. Although the person who shares the fake news may not realize that it is fake, the news is being shared causing people to believe that it is true. Facebook is reaching out to the conservative political action conference who are questioning the potential for bias news articles. Facebook was censoring stories about conservative topics back in spring of 2016. Now, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is investigating and Facebook moved its automate to the trending news section. Facebook is working to ensure that the

Twitter has become a popular social networking site and an easy way to campaign with minimal costs. “There is increasing evidence that broader public is becoming a tad dismissive of what some in the media refer to as an “explosion in the Twitterverse” on any particular issue” (The Canadians Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)). Controversial issues are put out onto social media because most people will check these sites daily and voice their opinions on issues. If people see these political views spread out on Twitter or Facebook, it will make people start to wonder about a candidate’s true standpoints on controversial issues really are. Not only is social media being used to spread political viewpoints, it is negatively affecting candidates because if a scandal is revealed, then instead of covering it up the candidate has to confess to the incident since it will keep more voters on his side (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBO)).” Some people might see the revelation uncovered scandals as a good thing, however from the

Moreover, Facebook was quick to confirm it has deleted “tens of thousands” of fake Facebook accounts and stated it would appoint 3,000 employees to look into hateful and aggressive contents and

Just months ago a former employee exposed Facebook 's suppression of stories that had conservative tones, or placed Donald Trump in a positive light, from their trending topics. CEO Mark Zuckerberg quickly denied any wrong doing, telling the world that an internal review showed “no evidence that this report is true.”

In order to fully understand how the functionality of pop culture has affected the political climate you must consider why these platforms were created and how they are currently being used. Facebook is a platform meant to connect users to the people and the things they like, based on your activity. Its algorithm wasn’t necessarily created for the purpose of debates and discussions that challenge what you may like or how you feel. Twitter is a messaging system that allows users (who may remain anonymous) to tweet almost anything they choose. Although different, they can host the same types of issues throughout.

In July 2014, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg apologized after revelations were released that said that the site was experimenting, changing how many positive vs negative stories that were on the News Feeds of about 700,000 users to gauge whether it provoked positive or negative emotional responses. Facebook was accused in early 2016 of only supporting conservative news sites, according to The New York Times, and tampering with the algorithms to lead their users to more

Social media platforms are a great way to connect with the world no matter where you are. Websites, such as Facebook, create a way to follow other accounts, which means they can see their posts right along side the other accounts you follow . People follow their friends, celebrities, places like “The Town of Ridgeland” , and even accounts that post current events. These news accounts are a great way to keep up with current events. Information now is quickly spread and

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This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the current issue(s) confronting Facebook, Inc. The major area of weakness require further investigation and remedial action by management. The analysis conducted does have some limitations. Some of the limitations include: forecasting cost figures and absolute profit margin were not provided due data limitations as not enough information was not available. Facebook has a controlled framework in place to ensure that website access is effective, efficient, and provide value for its stakeholders. A significant deficiency in company’s business model, though still strong, is susceptible to its future probability: the single source revenue. This issue will pose a major problem for Facebook Inc. and needs to be addressed. The results are summarized below and detailed in the attached body of the report.

Facebook (FB) has been dominating the social network industry since its birth in 2004. It was one of the first social platforms that aimed to connect people all over the world together. FB has been successful in establishing its competitive advantage relying in its network effect and its ability to catch up with the competition.

Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg who was in college when he created this social media networking website. Zuckerberg’s intentions were much different than what we have expected and grown used to. Facebook has allowed different sites and partner websites in on the user’s private information such as, their interests, location, and age. It has also allowed for many users to cyber bully others and not deal with the consequences after. Many users on Facebook suffer from depression, sadness, anger, jealousy and many other negative feelings. Facebook has caused privacy interferences, behavioral issues, and an overall unsafe environment for its users.

Through its years of operation, Facebook has been able to evolve and remain as one of the most popular social networking sites ever created. Facebook’s purpose is for users to connect, share, and communicate with each other across the internet. The case explores the beginning of Facebook, in 2003, when Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg first created an on-campus website called Facemash. The site would allow other students to rank the attractiveness of fellow students and quickly became the topic of conversation at the university. Zuckerberg would soon be placed on academic probation for breach of security, after the university learned he had hacked into Harvard’s computer network in order to use pictures of students on the website. This, however, did not deter Zuckerberg as he then began to work on his next website: The Facebook. The Facebook was launched in 2004, soon dropping the “The” to become Facebook. Zuckerberg knew the sites potential and allowed other universities in the Boston area to use the site. Over the next years, Facebook grew more and more popular, being used in over 800 colleges, universities and high schools. By the end of 2005, Facebook had earned 9 million in revenue and millions of monthly active users (The Guardian 2007).

Company Overview: “Facebook 's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”

Facebook has faced numerous legal and ethical controversies, because of the platform that it provides to the people for candidly criticizing, denigrating and posting derogatory comments and posts for anyone. The specific case highlighted by Reynolds (2014) is about a student Denise E. Finkel of the University of Albany, who accused Facebook, and her four ex-classmates at Oceanside High School of posting obnoxious comments on a Facebook group, which affected Denise in the form of public antipathy, humiliation, and derision. The group posted that in high school Denise had AIDS, was a regular drug user, and her conduct was inappropriate for animals (Matyszczyk, 2009).

Facebook is an online social networking service company since 2004. It was started as the online platform to be connected for ivy-league university students and later extended to general public. It has a market worth of $ 148 billion in 2014 and has more than 1 billion subscribers online. The case illustrates about the exploitation of user data by Facebook to generate revenue. The user data is used to deliver to highest bidder and earn revenue.