The New York Times
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
4 min · · 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. · Shared by 232, including Mike Rundle, TonyParisi.eth, Craig Brown, PhD, Rick Powell, Richard Gutjahr, News18, Christopher Lauer™, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Matt Navarra, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Robert Rose, Ekaterina Walter
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 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
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min · · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too. · Shared by 211, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Casie Gillette, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mike Butcher, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Remo Uherek, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Neeraj K Agrawal, Anthony Hamelle, Brian Roemmele, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Hugo Amsellem, Chris Gledhill
POLITICO
Why the right-wing has a massive advantage on Facebook
6 min · · A company executive responds to claims of bias. · Shared by 200, 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
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
Vox
Instagram is broken. It also broke us.
10 min · · Shared by 192, including Marko Saric, Gui Schmitt, Gary Thomas 🌐, Thomas Power, Brittany Berger, Jochen Burkhard, Rick Powell, Katja Evertz, DHH, Gisele Navarro, Kaspar Manz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The Washington Post
Why Facebook won’t let you control your own news feed
8 min · · 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? · Shared by 183, including Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Mark Little, Mari Smith, Carolina A. Miranda, Michael (मुकेश), Andrzej Jóźwik, Matt Navarra, 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 🤙
The Intercept
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
20+ min · · Under the guise of counterterrorism, the government is accelerating pressure on social media companies to crack down on speech the feds deem disinformation. · Shared by 168, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matt Navarra, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Alex Tabarrok 🛡️, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Kai Biermann, Rick Powell, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Ridley, Benny Johnson, billy esquires, ACLU
ELLE Magazine (US)
Google Loved Me, Until I Pointed Out Everything That Sucked About It
13+ min · · Claire Stapleton didn't just buy into the lore of Google—she helped write it. What happened when the bard of Google became one of its most vocal critics? · Shared by 166, including Gianluca Diegoli, Claudia Sommer, Mark Kaigwa, Katja Evertz, Gisele Navarro, Florian Hanke 🍎, Nilofer Merchant, Rick Powell
The New York Times
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
7 min · · ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race. · Shared by 162, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Singer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Azeem Azhar, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Aral Balkan, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Keefe, Peter Steinberger, Michael (मुकेश), Bilal Zuberi, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Josh Wolfe, The Indian Express, Carla Gentry 🎶, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, SwiftOnSecurity
WIRED
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses
6 min · · The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream. · Shared by 158, including Matthias Lampe, Jennifer Ouellette, 瑞拿頭, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Backchannel, Matthew Green, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Philippe, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Lenz, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick Powell
The Guardian
A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
6 min · · Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged Facebook and Google and Amazon saw a rise in employee organizing · Shared by 152, including Dean Anthony Gratton, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, luis antónio santos, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Input
How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
5 min · · 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. · Shared by 147, including Ed Zitron, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Alexandra Lange, Rick Powell, Austin Kleon
The New York Times
Opinion | We’re Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can’t Give Us
4 min · · 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. · Shared by 144, including Claudia Sommer, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, Prof. Sally Eaves, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Rick Powell, Nicolas Babin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Scott Galloway, Dennis Schvejda