The advisory group reviewing Facebook and Instagram’s content moderation decisions issued its first annual report Wednesday, capping off its first year in operation. The Oversight Board apparently received over one million appeals from Facebook and Instagram users in 2021. Most of those reque…
Castor, a data catalog startup, nabs $23.5M to expand its platform
Castor, a startup developing a data catalog solution for organizations, has raised $23.5 million in venture funding, bringing its total raised to $25 million.
With steady growth, Egnyte reaches $150M ARR and looks to future IPO
After 14 years, it’s hard to keep calling Egnyte a startup. It’s more a wily veteran private company with steady growth, one that might have taken 12 years to reach $100 million in ARR, but took just two more to reach $150 million. It could surpass $200 million this year, and Egnyte CEO…
Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower
Facebook’s external policy review board will meet with Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee who went public with her concerns about the company last week. Facebook’s Oversight Board announced Monday that it would meet with Haugen “in the coming weeks” after the whistle…
Facebook gets a C; startup rates the ‘ethics’ of social media platforms, targets asset managers
By now you’ve probably heard of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) ratings for companies, or ratings for their carbon footprint. Well, now a U.K. company has come up with a way of rating the “ethics” of social media companies. EthicsGrade is an ESG ratings agency, focusing on AI go…
Blendoor data lets you know if companies are living up to diversity pledges
Many companies talk the talk when it comes to diversity, but it’s harder to know if a firm is actually going the extra mile to hire more qualified people from underrepresented groups, or if they just make noise about it. Blendoor, a six-year-old startup, wants to put data to work on the probl…
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