The Atlantic
My Twitter Rehab
8 min read · 2021-07-05 · I’d rather have gone out on a champagne bender or bet the house on a poker game than let myself be undone by an addiction to social media.
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WIRED
This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
3 min read · 2021-07-06 · Law enforcement officials say the tool can help them combat misinformation. Civil liberties advocates say it can be used for mass surveillance.
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Gizmodo
TikTok's Algorithm and AI Tech Are Now Up for Sale
2 min read · 2021-07-04 · The app's parent company, ByteDance, launched a new BytePlus division to sell its features to other companies.
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WIRED
What If Regulating Facebook Fails?
3 min read · 2021-07-02 · It seems increasingly likely that antitrust and content moderation tools aren’t up to the task. Here’s what we do next.
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BuzzFeed News
Facebook Workers Accuse Company Of Bias Against Arabs And Muslims
~11 min read · 2021-05-27 · As Facebook contends with internal allegations of censorship, unequal enforcement, and pro-Israel bias, employees are worried it is once again bungling a politically charged issue with potential for v
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The Verge
A very brief history of every Google messaging app
8 min read · 2021-06-21 · A look back at Google’s messaging mess.
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Vox
How Twitter can ruin a life
20+ min read · 2021-06-30 · Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.
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Inc.
Facebook Still Doesn't Get It--People Actually Care About Their Privacy
3 min read · 2021-05-29 · The company funded a research paper that says Apple's iOS 14.5 update is anticompetitive.
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Judd Legum
How Facebook's algorithm devalues local reporting
5 min read · 2021-06-22 · Facebook, whether you like it or not, is one of the most important sources for news. Thirty-six percent of adults in the United States "say they regularly get news from Facebook," according to a…
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WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
20+ min read · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Nieman Lab
YouTube’s algorithm is pushing climate misinformation videos, and their creators are profiting from it » Nieman Journalism Lab
3 min read · From 2020 · One-fifth of the ads on climate misinformation videos were from Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, or other green/environmental groups.
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mathew Ingram, Jochen Burkhard, Nieman Reports
The Verge
What the world would look like without YouTube
9 min read · From 2020 · Or, an alternate history of the internet.
Reader View · Shared by 115, including Christian Müller, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Bas Grasmayer, Rifki Caesar Novaldin
The Verge
The Verge tech survey 2020
3 min read · From 2020 · 72 percent said that Facebook has too much power
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The Verge
YouTube reportedly working on TikTok competitor called Shorts
1 min read · From 2020 · Shorts will exist in the mobile YouTube app
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The Verge
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
2 min read · From 2020 · The two anti-communist phrases you can’t say on YouTube.
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googlewatchblog.de
YouTube: Niemand sieht deine Videos – 97 Prozent aller Videos erhalten kaum Aufrufe & viele weitere Statistiken
3 min read · From 2020 · YouTube ist die größte Videoplattform der Welt, und hält praktisch zu jedem Thema gefühlt unendlich viele Videos bereit. Laut einer Statistik führt das aber auch dazu, dass weit über 95 Prozent aller…
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