{"id":289639,"date":"2017-01-11T21:47:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mark-zuckerberg-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-people\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:47:02","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mark-zuckerberg-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Is Pissing Off a Lot of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg will be grappling with a growing problem in 2017: Facebook hate.<\/p>\n<p>The social-networking giant has landed on a list of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Hated Companies,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/08\/board-member-trampled-shareholders-rights-by-helping-zuckerberg-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\">with users hacked off<\/a> over its handling of everything from fake news to privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook has been a boon for shareholders, <a href=\"http:\/\/247wallst.com\/special-report\/2017\/01\/10\/americas-most-hated-companies-4\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\">financial news blog 24\/7 Wall St. noted as it published its ignominious list. <\/a>\u201cHowever, not everyone is pleased with the social media platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s name ended up in sixth place behind Comcast, Bank of America, Mylan, McDonald\u2019s and Wells Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Facebook on the miserable list of 12 were the slightly less-hated Spirit Airlines, Dish Network, Sears, Sprint, Walmart and Charter Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, [Facebook] has drawn significant criticism over its privacy policies and the mass data collection of its users,\u201d 24\/7 Wall St. said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording the company\u2019s statements, Facebook collects data on nearly anything it can, including who its users communicate with, users\u2019 financial transactions, and the types of devices users are connecting with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Facebook has faced \u201csharp criticism for not doing enough to curb the spread of fake news leading up to the US presidential election,\u201d the blog said.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg \u2014 who, according to recent disclosures has harbored aspirations for public service \u2014 was forced to react to complaints over fake news after initially dismissing them as \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/12\/16\/facebook-under-fire-for-picking-liberal-outlets-to-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\">His decision to hire&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/mark-zuckerberg-is-pissing-off-a-lot-of-people\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg will be grappling with a growing problem in 2017: Facebook hate. The social-networking giant has landed on a list of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Most Hated Companies,\u201d with users hacked off over its handling of everything from fake news to privacy concerns. \u201cFacebook has been a boon for shareholders, financial news blog 24\/7 Wall St. noted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}