WIRED
This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
3 min · · Law enforcement officials say the tool can help them combat misinformation. Civil liberties advocates say it can be used for mass surveillance. · Shared by 99, including Matt Navarra, Tactical Tech, Faik Ersoy, Nicolas Babin, Katja Evertz, Mathew Ingram, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #MWC23, Backchannel, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marsha Collier
Gizmodo
TikTok's Algorithm and AI Tech Are Now Up for Sale
2 min · · The app's parent company, ByteDance, launched a new BytePlus division to sell its features to other companies. · Shared by 77, including Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #MWC23, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Harold Sinnott #MWC23, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chris Isak 👩💻 #HM23, ipfconline, Katja Evertz
WIRED
What If Regulating Facebook Fails?
3 min · · It seems increasingly likely that antitrust and content moderation tools aren’t up to the task. Here’s what we do next. · Shared by 83, including Nicolas Babin, Andrew Hutchinson, Katja Evertz, Dr. Anna Jobin (also on Mastodon), Brian Ahier, Tactical Tech, Backchannel
BuzzFeed News
Facebook Workers Accuse Company Of Bias Against Arabs And Muslims
11+ min · · 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 · Shared by 52, including Katja Evertz, Mathew Ingram
The Verge
A very brief history of every Google messaging app
8 min · · A look back at Google’s messaging mess. · Shared by 108, including Dave Kellogg, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Katja Evertz, Graphic Mac, Xavier Bertschy, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nils Hitze, zeldman, Charles Arthur, Salman 🦊, Michael (मुकेश)
Vox
How Twitter can ruin a life
20+ min · · 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. · Shared by 234, including Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Alex B., Liam Bright, Adam Tinworth ☕️, Mathew Ingram, Kestrel Nicole VANDERWITCH!!!, Jennifer Ouellette, everest, Thomas Power, Katja Evertz, Taylor Lorenz
Inc.
Facebook Still Doesn't Get It--People Actually Care About Their Privacy
3 min · · The company funded a research paper that says Apple's iOS 14.5 update is anticompetitive. · Shared by 89, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Real Marsha Wright®, Andreas Staub, R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AXS2023, Katja Evertz
Judd Legum
How Facebook's algorithm devalues local reporting
5 min · · 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… · Shared by 80, including Tactical Tech, Nieman Reports, Katja Evertz, Deborah Blum, Matt Navarra, Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah@mastodon.art
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
20+ min · · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all. · Shared by 1090, including Jane, Helmut Adam, Zain Fathoni, Chris Messina, Azeem Azhar, OM, Adrienne Fichter, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Rodrigo Prior, Gerd Leonhard, Frederic Filloux, Mathew Ingram, Rico Grimm, Mark Kaigwa, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 @wfryer@mastodon.cloud, Joan Lockwood, Armindo Ferreira, Howard Getson, Thomas Power, Auf der Isar gibt es keine Matrosen, nur Flößer.
Nieman Lab
YouTube’s algorithm is pushing climate misinformation videos, and their creators are profiting from it » Nieman Journalism Lab
3 min · · One-fifth of the ads on climate misinformation videos were from Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, or other green/environmental groups. · 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 · · Or, an alternate history of the internet. · Shared by 115, including Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Bas Grasmayer, Christian Müller, Jonathan Kogan, Rifki Caesar Novaldin
The Verge
The Verge tech survey 2020
3 min · · 72 percent said that Facebook has too much power · Shared by 98, including Azeem Azhar, Matt Navarra, Builtvisible, Bjorn Larsen, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Stephanie A Kowalski, fantastic ms., Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Lara Burriesci, Katja Evertz, luis antónio santos
The Verge
YouTube reportedly working on TikTok competitor called Shorts
1 min · · Shorts will exist in the mobile YouTube app · Shared by 58, including Eric Seufert, Brooke B. Sellas, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Katja Evertz
The Verge
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
2 min · · The two anti-communist phrases you can’t say on YouTube. · Shared by 156, including zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Thomas Wong, Katja Evertz, KevinStrasser.com, Jean-Patrick, John Koetsier, Casey Newton, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Ajit Pai, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, DHH
googlewatchblog.de
YouTube: Niemand sieht deine Videos – 97 Prozent aller Videos erhalten kaum Aufrufe & viele weitere Statistiken
3 min · · 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… · Shared by 16, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Michael Gisiger, Klaus Eck, Katja Evertz
Insider Business
'We had no idea how to do it': YouTube's founders, investors, and first employees tell the chaotic inside story of…
12+ min · · YouTube's earliest employees and investors tell the story of the site's climb to the top, full of all-nighters, lawsuit threats, and food poisoning. · Shared by 89, including Katja Evertz, Neal Schaffer | ニール・シェーファー
