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Facebook has lost people’s trust “for good reasons” and isn’t responding well to whistle-blower claims that the social-media giant prioritizes profit over user safety, according to one of its earliest investors, Reid Hoffman. Bloomberg:“I’m disappointed,” Hoffman said Wednesday in an interview. Facebook should have been more proactive in response to troubling signs revealed in its own research,
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A coalition of nonprofits on Wednesday debuted HowToStopFacebook.org, a fresh push to encourage greater government regulation of the social networking giant aimed at forcing the company to change its business model. From a report:The campaign hopes to take the outrage expressed by legislators over the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen and translate it into action. The campaign
American lawn
Green lawns are terrible for the environment. They are also embarrasingly old fashionand and out of style. Decades of television and popular culturehave cemwntedin our brains a certain image of the American dream: house in the suburbs, white picket fence, two-car garage, glossy green lawn. Our conceptions of gardening and lawn careareoutdated and are effectively