Nancy Scola / Politico: Profile of Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs and Comms, who led the creation of its Oversight Board and is now shaping the company’s COVID-19 response — The company hired…
Wired: Facebook’s reluctance to fact-check conspiracy theories is based on an outdated “backfire” theory; experiments show fact-checks and debunkings are effective — The biggest social network in the world has the wrong idea for how…
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Facebook’s Oculus division is developing a smaller, lighter Quest VR headset, but the device is facing potential delays due to COVID-19 — – Timing of new mid-range device is being…
Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: Facebook’s deal with Jio is unlikely to make a dent in India’s mobile payments market, where Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm have emerged as the big players — So it’s confirmed:…