Anti-Social Media

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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Brandolini’s law, which says “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than is needed to produce it.”
The Intercept
How CNN, the New York Times, and Other Major Media Outlets Monetize Your Data and Lobby Against Regulation9 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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On December 2, a month after Baumann first appealed to Instagram to restore her account, The New York Times contacted Meta to ask why it had been shut down
The New York Times
Opinion | We’re Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can’t Give Us4 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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Meta signals Mr. Zuckerberg’s investment in the “embodied internet,” but it is ultimately a technology that keeps us apart, making us ever more alienated from our bodies and one another.
Gizmodo
We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How4 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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Beyond privacy reasons, the documents require additional review to ensure that we aren’t just handing criminals and spies a roadmap for undermining what controls Facebook does have in place to defend against propaganda that spreads lies, hate, and fear. That would undermine any benefit the world stands to reap from this act of whistleblower justice.
The Atlantic
Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole9 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 misinformation3 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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Scammers used to make their $$ from naive people. Now they get their payments straight from some of the world's biggest tech companies.
TechCrunch
Facebook continuing to surveil teens for ads, says report7 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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How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet5 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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It’s not that it doesn’t have its purpose; it’s just that it intrudes on the search experience of pretty much everyone who doesn’t want to use it.
The Washington Post
Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed8 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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But critics say this view misses something important: the value of giving users more agency over their information diet.
The Washington Post
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation10 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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That means Facebook for three years systematically amped up some of the worst of its platform, making it more prominent in users’ feeds and spreading it to a much wider audience. The power of the algorithmic promotion undermined the efforts of Facebook’s content moderators and integrity teams, who were fighting an uphill battle against toxic and harmful content
The New York Times
Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking9 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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Facebook cannot simply tweak itself so that it becomes a healthier social network when so many problems trace back to core features
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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What the world is seeing now, through the window provided by reams of internal documents, is that Facebook catalogs and studies the harm it inflicts on people. And then it keeps harming people anyway.
The Washington Post
Facebook whistleblower sheds light on social media’s harmful effects2021-10-06 · 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 messages2 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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