9 Best Articles in 2020
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 1042 saves · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it…
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
1036 saves · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
978 saves · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon…
Facebook Newsroom
It’s Facebook Official, Dating Is Here
Facebook Newsroom
824 saves · 2019-09-05 · Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
Buffer
The 20 Best New Social Media Tools to Try in 2017 (And How to Use Them)
Buffer
~20 min read · 672 saves · From 2016 · The social media world is a fascinating one. Every so often, a new social media platform emerges to capture our attention (Peach) or become part…
The Economist Data Team
How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness
The Economist Data Team
5 min read · 611 saves · From 2018 · Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”
The New York Times
The Follower Factory
The New York Times
554 saves · From 2018 · Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
The Guardian
‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
The Guardian
20+ min read · 521 saves · From 2018 · Christopher Wylie attracted worldwide media attention when he outed himself as the brainchild behind “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool” that helped Donald Trump win…
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The New Yorker
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
The New Yorker
~11 min read · 282 saves · Oct 19th · Andrew Marantz · The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
WIRED
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
WIRED
2 min read · 203 saves · Oct 13th · Eli Pariser · We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.
The New York Times
How The Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine
The New York Times
~13 min read · 147 saves · Oct 24th · Kevin Roose · Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire.
The Wall Street Journal
How Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics
The Wall Street Journal
10 min read · 95 saves · Oct 16th · Facebook’s CEO long left politics and policy to deputies. No more. As the company’s influence has grown, and with it controversies, political acumen has…
Scientific American
Trolling for Truth on Social Media
Scientific American
~11 min read · 85 saves · Oct 14th · What 1990s Internet protest movements share with today’s disinformation campaigns
The Wall Street Journal
Why Social Media Is So Good at Polarizing Us
The Wall Street Journal
5 min read · 69 saves · Oct 19th · Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and the results suggest at least one popular…
The New York Times
Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media
The New York Times
6 min read · 69 saves · Oct 12th · Casey Schwartz · Researchers are looking at online behavior to gauge public mental health. The results aren’t pretty.
TechCrunch
Hands on with Telepath, the social network taking aim at abuse, fake news and, to some extent,…
TechCrunch
10 min read · 68 saves · Oct 11th · There’s no doubt that modern social networks have let us down. Filled with hate speech and abuse, moderation and anti-abuse tools were an afterthought…
The Verge
Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites including Mother Jones
The Verge
2 min read · 64 saves · Oct 17th · Kim Lyons · Mother Jones editors said their traffic from Facebook had plummeted
The New York Times
YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon Conspiracy Theory, Citing Offline Violence
The New York Times
3 min read · 51 saves · Oct 15th · Kevin Roose · YouTube has played a bigger role in moving QAnon from the fringes to the mainstream than most platforms.
