Vox
“People do not trust that Facebook is a healthy ecosystem”
9 min read · 2021-08-06 · Leading social media researcher Laura Edelson explains her misinformation fight with Facebook.
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TechCrunch
Oh, Facebook changed its privacy settings again
2 min read · 2021-08-04 · Ever considerate of its users, Facebook has determined that its privacy settings needed a bit of a shuffle to keep things clear and easy to find. To that end they’ve taken the “privacy settings”…
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MIT Technology Review
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
~12 min read · 2021-07-29 · Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
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MIT Technology Review
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
20+ min read · 2021-03-11 · Three years ago, the company began building "responsible AI." This is the story of how it failed.
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The New York Times
Inside Facebook’s Data Wars
~11 min read · 2021-07-14 · Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources.
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The Telegraph
Facebook gives hundreds of staff high-tech glasses that capture what they see and hear
1 min read · 2020-09-18 · Company vows to protect bystanders' privacy by blurring faces and licence plates as it researches augmented reality technology
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Bloomberg
Facebook Needs Trump Even More Than Trump Needs Facebook
~11 min read · 2020-09-17 · Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.
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The New York Times
No, Facebook Does Not Reflect Reality
5 min read · 2020-09-09 · Despite what Mark Zuckerberg says, Facebook shapes our world.
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The Verge
Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students
2 min read · 2020-09-10 · College students only.
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BuzzFeed News
Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
~14 min read · 2020-09-14 · A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.
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Guardian Tech
Why Google and Facebook are being asked to pay for the news they use
6 min read · 2020-09-04 · The digital platforms aren’t happy and have warned of dire consequences if the draft legislation is passed into law
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BuzzFeed News
Facebook Didn't Remove Kenosha Militia Event Page
~11 min read · 2020-09-03 · Facebook said it removed a militia event associated with the shooting of three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It didn't. Here's what really happened, and why it could happen again.
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The Verge
Facebook wants its AR glasses to give wearers superhearing
4 min read · 2020-09-03 · But we still don’t know much about the glasses.
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Vox
Facebook is finally cracking down on QAnon
3 min read · 2020-08-19 · For years, the conspiracy theory has spread unchecked on the social media network, amassing millions of followers.
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Fast Company
Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings
~13 min read · 2020-08-20 · As Facebook struggles with waves of misinformation, the company’s political and business concerns are influencing its fact-checking policies.
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Digiday
Life after Facebook: How Brit + Co became profitable after seeing Facebook traffic plummet
3 min read · From 2020 · After taking a hit with the rest of the digital media industry during the Facebook and Google advertising duopoly, founder Brit Morin is taking a more hands-on and themed approach to creating the…
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