Technology
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Urges CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Step Down
In her first public speech after she leaked a large number of destructive documents about the internal workings of Facebook, the whistleblower Francis Haogen urged her former boss Mark Zuckerberg to step down and allow change instead of investing resources in rebranding. Plastic in. “I think if [Mark Zuckerberg] continues to serve as CEO, the company is unlikely to change,” Hogan told a crowded stage on the opening night of the Web Summit on Monday, which is an attraction for dozens of people.
Ten thousand people went to the science and technology event in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The former Facebook product manager gave a positive answer to the question of whether Zuckerberg should resign, adding: “Maybe this is an opportunity for others to succeed… If someone is willing to pay attention to safety, Facebook will be stronger.” This social network with nearly 3 billion users was renamed Meta last week to focus on building a “meta universe” brand rebrand, and it bet it will become a shared virtual environment for the successor of the mobile Internet.
But early adopters of the virtual world called Metaverse criticized Facebook’s rebranding because it tried to use the growing buzz of a concept to divert recent negative attention. Commenting on the rebranding, Hoogen stated that it is meaningless given the unresolved safety issues. “Facebook chooses to expand and new areas over and over again, instead of sticking to what they have already done,” Haugen told a group of active people, she often burst into applause when she spoke.
When Facebook’s announcement was released, legislators and regulators strongly criticized the company’s business practices, especially its huge market power, algorithmic decision-making, and supervision of its service abuse. The social media network operates a dual-shareholding structure through which Zuckerberg and a small group of investors control the company. It countered that Haugen’s leaked documents were used to portray “false pictures.” Haugen told lawmakers in the United Kingdom and the United States last month that Facebook will cause more violent riots around the world unless it curbs its algorithms, which push extreme, divisive content and plunder vulnerable groups to keep scrolling.
Haugen pointed out: “A key issue is that the foundation of platform security is based on monitoring content language on a per-language basis, which cannot be extended to all countries/regions in which Facebook operates.”
News Source : Gadgets 360
Hollywood
Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025
Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)
Tom signs Nolan’s next
This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.
Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).
Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.
Tom’s busy schedule
Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.
As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.
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