Facebook denied that internal research cited by a recent Wall Street Journal article demonstrated that Instagram was toxic for teenage girls, saying that the opposite was mostly true. In a lengthy rebuttal to the Journal’s damning report , Facebook said the article did not contain the necessary context about the internal research it relied upon. The internal research showed that...
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Pinterest’s Tardy CEO Shakeup

What timing! No one could say they were surprised that Ben Silbermann is stepping down as CEO of Pinterest—that’s something we’ve expected for a while. After all, while he and his co-founder, Evan Sharp, built the business into a public company worth $13 billion—even after the stock plunge of recent months—Silbermann lately has been grappling with falling user numbers in the U.S. No, what is...
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