Mark Zuckerberg’s pro-immigration lobby, FWD.us, is already losing big names. Among them is Tesla Motors founder and eco-friendly exec Elon Musk, who took issue with the group’s willingness to work with politicians on issues directly against his own—such as Keystone XL. “I agreed to support Fwd.us because there is a genuine need to reform immigration. However, this should not be done at the expense of other important causes,” he explained. Former Yammer exec David Sacks also jumped ship, but the group says they don’t plan to change tactics. (By the way, it’s worth noting that Tesla Motors had a really awesome quarter recently.)
Leaders in the technology community have every right to talk about how immigration reform will benefit their businesses. But instead, FWD.us has chosen a strategy that’s condescending to voters and counterproductive to the cause of reform.Former Sen. Russ Feingold • In a statement given to Politico, offering an explanation for why Progressives United, MoveOn.org, and other left-leaning organizations have decided to stop advertising on Facebook for at least two weeks. The advertising boycott is in response to several televised ads from FWD.us, the Mark Zuckerberg-founded advocacy organization which is supposedly focused on immigration reform, that support construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and attack “Obamacare.” source
A forward-thinking futurist Silicon Valley-type ought to be a progressive, right? Well, it’s not quite that simple.“Is Mark Zuckerberg a Liberal or a Conservative?,” Mashable. New analysis from me. (via alexjamesfitz)
Today we’re finally going to talk about that Facebook Phone.Mark Zuckerberg • Opening his live session on the oft-rumored, shouldn’t-actually-exist Facebook phone. Reuters has more.
Facebook Connect bug sends the internet to useless error page
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In which everyone on the internet felt like doing this to Mark Zuckerberg’s computer for 20 minutes:
isthisfacetiousenough asks: Regarding the Facebook thing... This seems wrong? I am not one of his followers, and after I saw that news article I had to see for myself. I composed a message, but I did not have a message screen that looked like that. I did not hit send, as I did not want to chance spamming Mark Zuckerberg with my test message. Also, I haven't been charged $1.00 to send messages to people I'm not friends with. Could this just be for certain types of accounts to stop businesses from spamming strangers?
» SFB says: This is a testing-phase thing that they’ve been rolling out for weeks. (Quote from FB’s staff: “We are testing some extreme price points to see what works to filter spam.”) The Mashable story just shows an example of the situation seen in the wild. With billions of people on Facebook, it’s likely that, if you’re not seeing it, it hasn’t rolled out to you yet. And regarding your last question: That’s exactly what it is. Basically, this allows strangers to contact people and not have the messages fall into the “other” inbox where spammy stuff goes. If they pay a dollar, it shows up next to messages from close friends. — Ernie @ SFB
Regarding the last post, we should crowdsource a ton of money together and send Zuckerberg a piece of “spam.” Just to see if he responds.
Want to send a message to Mark Zuckerberg? It’ll cost you. Usually, it’s $1 to send messages to random users. But the Facebook founder is different. That’ll be $100.
Ceglia’s alleged conduct not only constitutes a massive fraud attempt, but also an attempted corruption of our legal system through the manufacture of false evidence. That is always intolerable. Dressing up a fraud as a lawsuit does not immunize you from prosecution.U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara • Discussing the arrest of Paul Ceglia, the wood chip salesperson who found an attention-grabbing side gig as the bro who sued Facebook claiming Mark Zuckerberg gave him half of it. Ceglia is alleged to have forged the legal documents giving him part-ownership of the company, leading to his arrest.
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![Uh-oh: Facebook mobile apps modifying users’ address books
You might want to uninstall the Facebook app: There are reports that Facebook’s iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps are infiltrating the address book that comes preinstalled on these devices, erasing contacts’ email addresses, and replacing them with their Facebook address (you know, the [name]@facebook.com email address that everyone’s given and many don’t use). This is bad enough, but to make matters worse, the @facebook.com addresses —which are supposed to redirect to users’ Facebook inboxes — apparently aren’t working all that great. The end result is that emails sent by many well-intentioned mobile users are disappearing into the abyss, irretrievable by their intended recipients. Presumably, affected users are also losing the real email addresses of their friends. This is, to put it lightly, completely inexcusable, and it doesn’t take too much thinking to conjure up many, many disastrous scenarios that could result from a reckless policy like this. (Photo: AP; Clarification: the iOS danger is specifically related to version 6, which is in beta, though if you have an Android or Blackberry device, this is an issue now. Thanks to ligerxx for reaching out.) source
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You might want to uninstall the Facebook app: There are reports that Facebook’s iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps are infiltrating the address book that comes preinstalled on these devices, erasing contacts’ email addresses, and replacing them with their Facebook address (you know, the [name]@facebook.com email address that everyone’s given and many don’t use). This is bad enough, but to make matters worse, the @facebook.com addresses —which are supposed to redirect to users’ Facebook inboxes — apparently aren’t working all that great. The end result is that emails sent by many well-intentioned mobile users are disappearing into the abyss, irretrievable by their intended recipients. Presumably, affected users are also losing the real email addresses of their friends. This is, to put it lightly, completely inexcusable, and it doesn’t take too much thinking to conjure up many, many disastrous scenarios that could result from a reckless policy like this. (Photo: AP; Clarification: the iOS danger is specifically related to version 6, which is in beta, though if you have an Android or Blackberry device, this is an issue now. Thanks to ligerxx for reaching out.) source
No matter what happens, Mark Zuckerberg is still a billionaire. According to an SEC report, the Facebook co-founder sold 30 million shares yesterday, at a price of $37.58, but told investors of his plans before the stock went public. (Early Facebook investor Peter Thiel also sold roughly $633 million in stock himself.) According to our handy-dandy calculator, he cashed out $1.1 billion in the process. The stock is starting to stabilize at $31.89 — down significantly from its opening price but up from yesterday’s close. (via Hacker News)
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