POLITICO
Why the right-wing has a massive advantage on Facebook
6 min · · A company executive responds to claims of bias. · Shared by 201, including Beate Jordaan, Phillip Murphy, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, luis antónio santos, Kevin Roose, Matteo Furia, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Nate Silver, Judd Legum, Mark Kaigwa, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Rick Powell, rogerverhoeven, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Julia Ioffe, Brad Brooks, Mike Troiano
The New York Times
Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America
5 min · · Facebook is too big for democracy. · Shared by 100, including Rick Powell, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Howard Getson, Tiffany Shlain, Katja Evertz, Faik Ersoy
Fast Company
Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings
13+ min · · As Facebook struggles with waves of misinformation, the company’s political and business concerns are influencing its fact-checking policies. · Shared by 77, including Jimmy Wales, Katja Evertz, Benji Hyam, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mathew Ingram, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe
Slate
Illiberalism Isn’t to Blame for the Death of Good-Faith Debate
8 min · · Bad faith is the condition of the modern internet. · Shared by 144, including Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, BenYT, Rick Powell, Mathew Ingram, Caroline Criado Perez, Scott F. Kiesling
The Atlantic
Even Facebook Is Pining for the Internet It Destroyed
4 min · · The tech giant’s new oddball social-media app is a testament to its power. · Shared by 11, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Rick Powell
Fast Company
‘Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest oligarch in the history of mankind’
6 min · · The outspoken NYU professor Scott Galloway doesn’t mince words about our favorite social network and the government’s failure to regulate it. · Shared by 179, including Rick Powell, Chad S. White, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Thomas Power, Scott Galloway, Brian Clark 🤙
WIRED
Facebook Groups Are Destroying America
3 min · · They're built for privacy and community—and that's just what makes them dangerous. · Shared by 339, including Thomas Pleil, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Claudia Sommer, Michelle Garrett, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Klaus Eck, Neil Hart 💙, Liliane Ferrari ™, Matt Navarra, Neeraj K Agrawal, Laura E. Davis, Josep M. Ganyet, Mathew Ingram, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Chris Isak, Antonio Vieira Santos, Backchannel, Michael Seemann, Rick Powell
NBC News
'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Zuckerberg's free-speech stance
6 min · · “Facebook doesn’t care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said. · Shared by 40, including Mathew Ingram, Rick Powell, Richard Gutjahr, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️
jonathanturley.org
Trump Threatens To “Shut Down” Social Media Companies
2 min · · I have a column criticizing Twitterfor its labelling of tweets from President Donald Trump as presumptively false. Twitter has yielded to demands in Congress to censor and regulate political speech… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Current Affairs
Facebook Has The Power To Repeal The First Amendment ❧ Current Affairs
6 min · · It’s simple: when private companies are the gatekeepers to the public square, guaranteed civil liberties essentially cease to exist. · Shared by 6, including Rick Powell
Deadspin
Why That Dumb AIDS Tweet Was So Captivating
14+ min · · Will Leitch, senior writer at Sports On Earth and founder of Deadspin, is doing his yearly fill-in for Drew Magary on today's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. (Here is 2011's version, and… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell, Will Leitch
firstdraftnews.org
Fake news. It's complicated.
· To understand the misinformation ecosystem, here's a break down of the types of fake content, content creators motivations and how it's being disseminated · Shared by 13, including Elizabeth (not Liz) Dubois, Rick Powell
Bloomberg
Twitter Asks Users to Reconsider Before Sending Vulgar Tweets
· Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg. · Shared by 15, including Gary Thomas 🌐, Rick Powell
adbusters.org
Digital Bill of Rights
1 min · · A spectre is haunting you from behind your screen — the spectre of surveillance capitalism. It is high time that digital citizens, in the face of rampant techno-tyranny, openly mount a resistance to… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
VICE
Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims
2 min · · In a court-filed declaration, NSO Group’s CEO says Facebook tried to buy an Apple spying tool in 2017. · Shared by 74, including Oliver Raduner, Ethan Zeigler, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, DHH, Rick Powell, Richard Gutjahr, Katja Evertz
Stratechery
Unmasking Twitter
10 min · · Twitter has a new policy to listen to experts about what content to limit; what happens, though, when experts are wrong? · Shared by 194, including Matthias Lampe, tylercowen, Michael Carroll, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz, Scott Monty, Taylor Pearson, Thomas Power, Scott Sage, Nir Eyal, Eric Kasyoka, Balaji, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell