MIT Technology Review
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
3 min · · The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. · Shared by 852, including Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Andrew Hutchinson, Mark Kaigwa, Harry Briggs, Mark Little, Karen K. Ho, @emilymbender@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Nicolas Babin, Gerd Leonhard, Tactical Tech, Deborah Blum, Abeba Birhane, Gabriele, Mathew Ingram, Jeff Atwood, Bill Johnston
The Verge
Three Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose a company in crisis
20+ min · · Shared by 640, including Thomas Power, Marsha Collier, massimo mantellini, zeynep tufekci, Casey Newton, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Korben, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Jane, Chris Messina, CORRECTIV, anildash.com, DHH, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Liliane Ferrari ™, Antonio Vieira Santos, Mark Kaigwa, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Matt Navarra, Mathew Ingram
WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
20+ min · · Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight. · Shared by 597, including Danny Goodwin, Nancy, Chris Messina, Florian Hanke 🍎, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, Esther Schindler, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Steven Sinofsky, Elena Neira, Thomas Power, OM, Audrey Watters, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marsha Collier, Jeff Atwood, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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
The Guardian
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
5 min · · Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’ · Shared by 478, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dr. Alec Couros, The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Carl Robinson 🎙️, Prof Michael E. Mann, Steve Faktor, Bill McKibben, Andres Oppenheimer, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Deborah Blum, marco iacoboni, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Ray Monk, Claudia Sommer, Bethany Brookshire, W. David Stephenson, Tristan Harris, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
4 min · · In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived. · Shared by 423, including John Battelle, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marsha Collier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, elpocas, Katja Evertz, Josh Elman, Martin Varsavsky, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Mark Kaigwa, Backchannel, John Koetsier, Mathew Ingram, Matthias Lampe, Bill Johnston, Johannes Lenz, Esther Schindler, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Vikram Dutt, Claudia Sommer
WIRED
Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All of Them
7 min · · Shared by 414, including Raphael Raue, Tillmann Allmer, Gerd Leonhard, Lorenz König, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Tris Hussey, Christian P. Stobbe, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Turner Burns, Jean-Patrick, Harald Ille, Thomas Pleil, Nir Eyal, Klaus Eck, Herbert Bay, Greg Meyer, Liliane Ferrari ™, Mark Kaigwa, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Washington Post
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
10 min · · Facebook engineers gave extra value to emoji reactions, including "angry," pushing more emotional and provocative content into users’ news feeds. · Shared by 372, including Rich Miner, @augieray@mastodon.social, Michael (मुकेश), Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Carl T. Bergstrom, Andy Budd, Mathew Ingram, Cristina Tardáguila, Cat Zakrzewski, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., David Meerman Scott, Steve Silberman, Jon Loomer, Barry Ritholtz, Jessica Valenti, Bethany Brookshire, Christopher Mims 🤌, Liz Plank (SUBSCRIBE TO MY SUBSTACK), Brian Roemmele, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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
The Guardian
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
4 min · · Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents · Shared by 340, including Carl Zimmer, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Scott Galloway, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Joy Harjo, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Shoshana Zuboff, Guy Kawasaki, Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Pippa Malmgren, Gregg Caruso, Chris Isak, Carla Gentry 🎶, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, John Battelle, Steve Silberman, Chris Messina, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei
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
SparkToro
Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
2 min · · We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based · Shared by 334, including Arnie Kuenn, Mic King, Lee Odden - B2B Marketing, Cem Sertoglu 🤖, Britney Muller 🇺🇦, Elizabeth Marsten, Michelle Garrett, Cyrus, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Andy Crestodina, Chris Messina, Wil Reynolds, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Kelsey Jones, Rand Fishkin, Purna Virji, Melonie Dodaro, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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 Cut
My Mind Is a Palace Stuffed With Exquisite Garbage
3 min · · And yours can be, too. · Shared by 280, including Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell
WIRED UK
I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's why you should too
5 min · · When you realise that most things you search for online are really boring and obvious, you soon realise you don't really need Google in your life · Shared by 255, including Faik Ersoy, Tauno, Fred Wilson, Backchannel, Marcos, Enrique Dans, Xose Alberte Cea, Rick Powell, Nils Hitze, erik spiekermann, Valiskster, sascha aßbach, Ines Bieler, Kaspar Manz, Andreas Spiegler, DHH, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Chris Isak, John Koetsier
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