Science Magazine
Studying—and fighting—misinformation should be a top scientific priority, biologist argues
~13 min read · Mar 23rd · Carl Bergstom looks at “bullshit” on social media through an evolutionary lens
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The Intercept
How CNN, the New York Times, and Other Major Media Outlets Monetize Your Data and Lobby Against Regulation
9 min read · Feb 1st · The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible.
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The New York Times
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
4 min read · 2021-12-13 · Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work.
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The New York Times
Opinion | We’re Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can’t Give Us
4 min read · 2021-11-26 · After struggling with anorexia and bulimia for more than 20 years, the last thing I want is technology that further estranges me from my body.
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Gizmodo
We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
4 min read · 2021-11-22 · Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
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The Atlantic
Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole
9 min read · 2021-11-19 · I set up a new Facebook account with the most generic interests possible, and wound up in a place no one should ever have to go.
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MIT Technology Review
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
3 min read · 2021-11-20 · The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
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TechCrunch
Facebook continuing to surveil teens for ads, says report
7 min read · 2021-11-16 · The adtech giant formerly known as Facebook is still tracking teens for ad targeting on its social media platforms, according to new research by Fairplay, Global Action Plan and Reset Australia —…
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Input
How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
5 min read · 2021-11-05 · The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop.
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The Washington Post
Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed
8 min read · 2021-11-13 · A new legislative push to regulate social media algorithms — the sophisticated, personalized software that decides which posts you see each time you log in — raises an old question: Why don’t social networks such as Facebook simply let you turn them off?
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The Washington Post
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
10 min read · 2021-10-26 · Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including "angry," pushing more emotional and provocative content into users’ news feeds.
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The New York Times
Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
9 min read · 2021-10-25 · Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.
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New York Magazine
‘The Problem Is Him’
7 min read · 2021-10-27 · Kara Swisher on Mark Zuckerberg’s crisis and ours.
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The Atlantic
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
20+ min read · 2021-10-25 · Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
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The Washington Post
Facebook whistleblower sheds light on social media’s harmful effects
2021-10-06 · Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen warned lawmakers of the challenges with Facebook are unique because policymakers don’t have visibility into how the company works.
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AppleInsider
Mark Zuckerberg may have lied to Congress about who can see WhatsApp messages
2 min read · 2021-09-07 · The Facebook-owned WhatsApp regularly boasts of using end-to-end encryption and keeping communications between users private, but a report alleges that some monitoring of messages does take place, and…
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