The New York Times
Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
9 min · · Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects. · Shared by 95, including Bill McKibben, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Mike Rundle, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Matt Navarra, Katja Evertz, Mathew Ingram, felix salmon, Forbes India, Rick Powell, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸
New York Magazine
‘The Problem Is Him’
7 min · · Kara Swisher on Mark Zuckerberg’s crisis and ours. · Shared by 86, including Kara Swisher, Tactical Tech, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Matt Navarra, Scott Monty, Katja Evertz, Andrew Hutchinson, Antonio Vieira Santos, Scott Galloway, Rick Powell
The Atlantic
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
20+ min · · 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. · Shared by 288, including Juliette Kayyem, Mathew Ingram, Kevin M. Kruse, Azeem Azhar, Jonathan Eisen, Ben Jones, Clive Thompson, Tactical Tech, Dominik Grolimund, Rick Powell, Ibram X. Kendi, Kara Swisher, Cathy 🌻, Olga Khazan, Deborah Blum, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Felix M, Anne Applebaum, Mark Little, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.
The Washington Post
Facebook whistleblower sheds light on social media’s harmful effects
· 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. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
AppleInsider
Mark Zuckerberg may have lied to Congress about who can see WhatsApp messages
2 min · · 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… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
The New York Times
Text Memes Are Taking Over Instagram
6 min · · Fueled by Gen Z, text-heavy meme posts, often paired with nonsensically unrelated pictures, are turning the photo and video app into a destination for written expression. · Shared by 90, including TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Rick Powell, Kyle Chayka, Forbes India, Jan Firsching 🆒, Loughlin O'Nolan, Kent Bye (Voices of VR), Matt Navarra, Gabriele, Marsha Collier
MIT Technology Review
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
12+ min · · Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. · Shared by 363, including John Koetsier, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Mike Butcher, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Alex Barrera, Faik Ersoy, Marty Cagan, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jennifer Ouellette, Rick Powell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Arin Basu, Mathew Ingram, Gabriele, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon
Real Life
Why Can’t We Be Friends — Real Life
11+ min · · Podcasts and other forms of “parasocial” media reframe friendship as monetized self-care · Shared by 82, including Ole Reißmann, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Rick Powell, Neil Lee, Gabriele
The New York Times
The ‘Ugly Truth’ About Facebook
5 min · · A new, deeply reported book by the Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang recounts the full story of the social media company’s foibles. · Shared by 116, including hakan, Matt Navarra, Thomas Power, zeldman, Rick Powell, Jason Hirschhorn, Tactical Tech, Sarah Frier, Maria Bustillos, Stig Ørskov
TechCrunch
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’
5 min · · A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content.… · Shared by 245, including Brooke B. Sellas, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Real Marsha Wright®, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Antonio Vieira Santos, Sam Maule, Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦 Creative Entrepreneur, Katja Evertz, Rick Powell, Michelle Killebrew, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, John Koetsier, Stephanie A Kowalski, Akvile DeFazio, Aral Balkan, Matt Navarra, Faik Ersoy
The New York Times
We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol.
7 min · · At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media. A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill. · Shared by 231, including Virginia Hughes, Ashley C. Ford, felix salmon, Anne Applebaum, emily bell, Ben Casselman, Bethany Brookshire, Jeff Keni Pulver 🌻, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mathew Ingram, Helen Lewis, Ashoka Mukpo, David Weigel, Kyle Chayka, CyberCodeTwins, John Schwartz, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, caroline sinders, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, BenYT
The New Republic
Making Sense of the Facebook Menace
18+ min · · Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy? · Shared by 144, including John Schwartz, Jason Stanley, Katja Evertz, Eli Pariser | @elipariser@mastodon.social, Rick Powell, Jay Rosen, Hannes Grassegger, Justin Jackson, Mark Kaigwa, venkat - bala, Gay_Men_4_Life, Matt Navarra
The Atlantic
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
16+ min · · The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves. · Shared by 534, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Dr. Alec Couros, John Battelle, Gregg Gonsalves, Jeff Atwood, Gideonro, Megan Garber, Matt Navarra, Jennifer Ouellette, James Fallows, Psymposia, Tara Imani, AIA, Josh Bersin, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Susan Su, Charles Arthur, Mike Troiano, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Gerd Leonhard
Fast Company
The ‘Coded Bias’ documentary is ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for Big Tech algorithms
2 min · · Director Shalini Kantayya’s documentary ‘Coded Bias’ unravels how inherent gender and racial biases get embedded in the algorithms that run our lives. · Shared by 79, including Bill Johnston, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nige Roberts-Willson, Rick Powell, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer
Aeon+Psyche
How smartphones silence what the urban landscape tries to say
10 min · · When you stare at your phone or use Uber to navigate your neighbourhood, you flatten the rich texture of urban life · Shared by 39, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Give up Google, don't hit 'accept all': how to fight for your privacy
7 min · · In Privacy Is Power, professor Carissa Véliz has made a shocking survey of how much intimate data we are surrendering. But she has a plan to fight back · Shared by 216, including Brad Brooks, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Noely ⚡️🏐, Rick Powell, Bernhard Huessy, Aamir Raz, Neil Hart 💙, Mark Kaigwa, Carissa Véliz