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Facebook Knows It Encourages Division. Top Executives Nixed Solutions.
Expect paywall · 188 saves · May 26 · The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved…
Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War
5 min read · Paywall possible · 141 saves · May 13 · Kevin Roose · Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
How to Set Your Social Media to Control Who Sees What
1 min read · Paywall possible · 109 saves · May 10 · Pick who sees your tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagram stories—and choose what you want to see, too.
Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation
2 min read · Paywall possible · 86 saves · May 09 · Siva Vaidhyanathan · The company's new review board is designed to move slowly and keep things intact.
How the falsehood-filled ‘Plandemic’ movie spread widely online on YouTube, Facebook
9 min read · Paywall possible · 72 saves · May 20 · Just over a week after “Plandemic” was released, it had been viewed more than 8 million times on YouTube, Facebook,…
The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Motherhood on Instagram
~12 min read · 59 saves · May 09 · Molly Langmuir · Parents want to share their lives on social media but at what cost? Molly Langmuir goes down the rabbit hole.
Buying Giphy Gives Facebook a New Window Into Its Rivals
2 min read · Paywall possible · 56 saves · May 15 · Louise Matsakis · The social media giant acquires another rich source of data, this time in the form of the internet’s favorite GIF…
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
2 min read · 48 saves · May 26 · James Vincent · The two anti-communist phrases you can’t say on YouTube.
Facebook releases Avatars -- here's how to get yours just right
3 min read · 44 saves · May 15 · Facebook just rolled out Avatars, little doppelgangers you can use as stickers. Here's how you can find and customize yours.
'Plandemic' Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense
40 saves · May 08 · A pseudo-documentary full of outrageous, verifiably false claims is still going viral, despite being repeatedly removed from YouTube and Facebook.