Is Facebook to start charging YOU? Firm considered making you pay for access
Facebook has looked into the possibility of charging users a subscription fee to access the social network, it has revealed. The California-based company currently uses advertising to monetise the social network, which has 2.2 billion monthly active users around the world.
However, the amount of data Facebook gathers on its users to target its on-screen adverts has been subject to a huge amount of scrutiny in recent months. The company has found itself at the centre of a scandal after it was discovered that data from some 87 million users' personal data was scraped and used by UK-based political data firm Cambridge Analytica.
Of those, Facebook has admitted that up to 2.7 million people in the European Union may have been victims. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised for his companys role in the data scandal.
The 33-year-old multi-billionaire testified in-front of a United States Senate commission earlier this month over the scandal, where he hinted at the company exploring paid subscriptions down the line.
This would reduce the US company's reliance on users' personal information to monetise the social network. However, Zuckerberg specifically said there would always offer a free version of Facebook, whilst not closing the door on the possibility of paid versions as well.
In the latest Facebook earnings call, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg got more concrete on the issue. Sandberg told investors the company has certainly thought about lots of other forms of monetisation including subscriptions, and well always continue to consider everything..
It's interesting the Chief Operating Officer for Facebook would bring-up subscriptions so soon after co-founder Mark Zuckerberg hinted at the possibility of a paid version of the social network.
While Zuckerberg has made it clear this would not replace the ad-supported, free version of Facebook, it is nonetheless an interesting proposition. If the social network sees users leave the platform over concerns about how much of their data is tracked, a paid Facebook experience with more privacy protections could be a good play.
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Tyga's Son King Cairo Is Reportedly Acting Out Because He Misses Kylie Jenner - Duration: 2:51.
Tyga's Son King Cairo Is Reportedly Acting Out Because He Misses Kylie Jenner
Breakups are complicated especially when children are involved.
It's been a year since Kylie Jenner and Tyga called it quits for good but King Cairo is reportedly not over it.
Tyga and Kylie dated for the better part of three years before she moved on and had a baby girl with Travis Scott.
Since then Tyga has been playing the field by dating multiple models and most recently, Iggy Azalea.
The "Rack City" rapper may or may not have gotten over his ex, but his son is allegedly still asking when he'll be able to see her.
While the makeup mogul was involved with her ex-boyfriend she took it upon herself to make sure she had a great relationship with King, regardless of Blac Chyna's distaste of her.
Between bringing him along on vacations with them and throwing him a lavish Ferrari themed birthday party — Kylie was on the track of being the best future stepmom ever.
Although Tyga probably explained that he will no longer be seeing Kylie around, it's hard for a toddler to process.
A source tells Life and Style: "King's always asking Tyga, 'Where's Kylie?' He misses her.
He misses her house, the toys, the fun excursions, and he really misses that pony Kylie gave him a few years ago for Christmas.
She spoiled him rotten and like any kid, he misses that.".
The insider added: "Tyga often tells him he can't go to Kylie's because she's busy or working and King throws the biggest tantrums ever.
Now that Kylie as a baby of her own and is in a serious relationship with Travis, it's unlikely that the two will reconcile anytime soon.
In fact, the running rumor that Tyga is the real father of Stormi Webster is pushing Kylie and Tyga further apart and causing tension with her 25-year-old beau.
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TWICE "What is Love? - OTAMATONE COVER - Duration: 2:11.
TWICE!
WHAT IS LOVE?
everyday, through movies, books
or dramas i feel what live is um-i learn what live is
my heart keeps jumping and beating
the flutters are making my heart swell um-i'm curious i might go crazy
ooh will this sort of thing happen to me someday too?
when will this be? what kind of person will it be?
I WANNA KNOW the seetness that's like candy
I WANNA KNOW what it feels like when i'm up in the skies
I WANNA KNOW KNOW KNOW KNOW
WHAT IS LOVE? what does love feel like?
I WANNA KNOW what it feels like to be smilling all day long
K WANNA KNOW what it feels like when everything in the world is beautiful to u
I WANNA KNOW KNOW KNOW
WHAT IS LOVE? will it happen to me someday too?
(where coud it be?) i'll find you (where could it be?) i wanna see it so badly
it's like i can't bear it anymore
the sweetness that's like candy, what it feels like when i'm up in the skies
I WANNA KNOW KNOW KNOW KNOW
WHAT IS LOVE? what does live feel like?
what it feels like to be smilling all day long
what it feels like when everyting in the world is beautiful to you
I WANNA KNOW KNOW KNOW KNOW
WHAT IS LOVE? will it happen to me someday too?
I WANNA KNOW X2
i wanna know know know know WHAT IS LOVE?
I WANNA KNOW X2
i wanna know know know know WHAT IS LOVE?
i wanna know
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This 🍏 Is An Ambush!👠Tom Brokaw Blasts Sexual Misconduct Accuser - Duration: 6:16.
Former NBC staffers have accused Tom Brokaw of sexual misconduct , and he has admitted
that he acted inappropriately, but says that it did not rise to the level described.
Now, he sent out a mass email to a number of colleagues, in which he takes a much harsher
tone towards the accusations and one of the women who made them.
That email has been obtained and published for all to see.
In a lengthy email to his colleagues that has been obtained by The Hollywood Reporter
, Tom Brokaw denounces the allegations against him.
"It is 4:00 am on the first day of my new life as an accused predator in the universe
of American journalism."
It's off to a very melodramatic start.
"I was ambushed and then perp walked across the pages of The Washington Post and Variety
as an avatar of male misogyny."
If you think that this hyperbole is a bit much, just wait for this next line.
"Taken to the guillotine and stripped of any honor and achievement I had earned in more
than a half century of journalism and citizenship."
After the hyperbole train comes to a near-stop, he suggests that he knows the motives of Linda
Vester, the woman identified by name in the article.
"I am facing a long list of grievances from a former colleague who left NBC News angry
that she had failed in her pursuit of stardom."
He then drops that he's responsible for her career.
"She has unleashed a torrent of unsubstantiated criticism and attacks on me more than twenty
years after I opened the door for her and a new job at Fox news."
Brokaw seems bewildered that these accusations against him were in print.
"Linda Vester was given the run of the Washington Post and Variety to vent her grievances."
He then characterizes the accusations against him:
"To complain that I tickled her without permission (you read that right), that I invaded her
hotel room, accepted an invitation to her apartment under false pretenses. ..."
He sees these accusations as a personal attack.
"And in general was given a free hand to try to destroy all that I have achieved with my
family, my NBC career, my writing and my citizenship."
He says that, essentially, everyone is on his side.
"My NBC colleagues are bewildered that Vester, who had limited success at NBC News, a modest
career at Fox and a reputation as a colleague who had trouble with the truth, was suddenly
the keeper of the flame of journalistic integrity."
It sounds like he's trying to say that she is not trustworthy or truthful. One wonders
if he will also say the same about his other accuser if she is named, and about any others
who might speak up.
"Her big charge: that on two occasions more than 20 years ago I made inappropriate and
uninvited appearances in her apartment and in a hotel room."
"As an eager beginner, Vester, like others in that category, was eager for advice and
camaraderie with senior colleagues. She often sought me out for informal meetings, including
the one she describes in her New York hotel room."
In her accusations, he called her and informed her that she was coming over -- after having
been turned down when he asked her out for a drink.
"I should not have gone but I emphatically did not verbally and physically attack her
and suggest an affair in language right out of pulp fiction."
She said that he tried to kiss her against her will, which is something that clearly
has stuck with her for a long time.
"She was coy, not frightened, filled with office gossip, including a recent rumor of
an affair."
So ... they were talking.
"As that discussion advanced she often reminded me she was a Catholic and that she was uncomfortable
with my presence. So I left,"
He says that he's now shocked that she was upset by the visit.
"23 years later, to be stunned by her melodramatic description of the meeting."
Interesting to hear the guy who just described being guillotined accuse someone else of being
melodramatic .
"As I got up to leave I may have leaned over for a perfunctory goodnight kiss, but my memory
is that it happened at the door – on the cheek."
Brokaw says that her description of that kiss was not as she described.
"No clenching her neck. That move she so vividly describes is NOT WHO I AM. Not in high school,
college or thereafter."
Brokaw also says that she left out some details.
"Here is a part of her story she somehow left out. I think I saw her in the hallways and
asked how it was going."
He says that he offered her career advice.
"She was interested in cable start up [sic] and I said I didn't think that was going
anywhere. What about Fox, which was just building up?"
He says that he then made that connection happen.
"She was interested and followed me to my office where, while she listened in, I called
Roger Ailes. He said, 'send her over.'"
He then accuses her of hypocrisy by having never said anything publicly about Ailes after
he was accused of sexual harassment and forced to resign .
Again, he reiterates that he does not like that the accusations against him were published,
as she believes that this woman is biased.
"I am stunned by the free ride given a woman with a grudge against NBC News, no distinctive
credentials or issue passions while at FOX."
He believes that she was accusing him out of a desire for attention, which is a fairly
common deflection from people accused of misdeeds.
"Strip away all of the hyperbole and what has she achieved? What was her goal? Hard
to believe it wasn't much more Look At Me than Me:Too."
Sometimes, it's difficult to know a person's true character until you see how they respond
to adversity.
And this scathing letter is how Brokaw has responded.
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The Asymmetrical DS X E-Tense Is an Optical Illusion in Concept-Car Form - Duration: 2:37.
At Citroën, the DS name has always been associated with wackiness,
or at least forward thinking.
So it's fitting that the DS brand's newest concept car, the DS X E-Tense, is an off-the-rails
design study envisioning what cars might look like in 2035.
With a bizarre asymmetrical layout and plenty of space-age visual cues, the X E-Tense is
a perplexing-looking thing that seems more like an optical illusion than an actual car,
but we're intrigued nonetheless.
The basics of the E-Tense are somewhat familiar: it's a sports car that rides on a carbon-fiber
monocoque and is powered by two electric motors mounted in the front wheels.
These motors are said to make 536 horsepower in standard roadgoing mode and an insane 1341
horsepower in track, or "circuit," mode.Then things start to get weird.
The driver, on the left side of the car, sits in a single open-air seat with a small windshield.
The passenger, on the right side of the car, sits farther back under a bubble-top roof,
and an additional seat can be added in front of that seat for three-passenger capability.
The glass floor is see-through, and the air inside the cabin is filtered and scented to
relax the passengers while they're driven either by the driver or by the car in fully
autonomous mode.
There are no touchscreens; instead, a personal-assistant hologram takes care of the car's functions
for you.
Oh, and it's also crashproof.
DS said the body is constructed in such a way that it can return to its original shape
after a collision, thanks to some unspecified "new technology" that we're suddenly
very curious to hear more about.
DS said the E-Tense will be making its movie premiere in the near future, so look for it
on the silver screen sometime soon—and on the showroom floor sometime not so soon.
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