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Facebook hires first chief compliance officer amid regulatory scrutiny — The Hill

Henry Moniz will join Facebook on Feb. 8 to head the social media giant's compliance team, writes Cameron Jenkins. Here is the link: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/536606-facebook-hires-first-chief-compliance-officer-amid-regulatory-scrutiny

The questions the CEOs declined to answer — Protocol

Every congressional hearing with the tech CEOs has been rife with promises they will "get back" to lawmakers on questions they either can't or...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft ‘avoiding $3bn in tax in poorer nations’ — BBC

Google, Facebook and Microsoft should be paying more corporation tax in developing nations, says ActionAid; according to the BBC report. Here is the link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54691572

Facebook’s open source M2M-100 model can translate between 100 different languages — VP

Facebook today open-sourced M2M-100, an algorithm it claims is the first capable of translating between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English...

Senate committee issues official subpoenas to Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey — The Verge

Thursday morning, the Senate Commerce committee voted unanimously to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter, writes Russell Brandom. Here is the...