Facebook's email-harvesting practice is under investigation in NY ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 7 votes
"It's not play if you're making money": How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws ~tech social media Article 2683 words 9 votes
How Twitter users compare to the general American public ~tech social media Article 1973 words 9 votes
It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report ~tech internet privacy social media Article 1415 words 8 votes
The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities, from DeviantArt to Tumblr ~tech social media Article 2925 words, published Apr 19 2019 25 votes
When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible? ~tech social media internet Article 529 words 5 votes
The Black feminists who saw the alt-right threat coming ~tech social media Article 3550 words 10 votes
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier ~books fiction.young adult Article 1140 words, published Mar 4 2019 12 votes
Human contact is now a luxury good | Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. ~tech social media Article 2050 words, published Mar 23 2019 13 votes
WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany ~tech social media Article 1087 words 16 votes
Labor demands Facebook remove 'fake news' posts about false Australian death tax plans ~tech social media facebook Article 441 words 9 votes
Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy ~tech facebook social media Article 10 votes
Through births, illnesses, and holidays, Ben “CohhCarnage” Cassell streamed on Twitch for 2,000 days in a row ~games Article 2518 words 6 votes
Facebook says it 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 588 words 22 votes
Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust ~tech internet social media Article 5 votes
Why the tech industry is wrong about Australia's video streaming legislation ~tech social media facebook Article 1385 words, published Apr 5 2019 6 votes
End the tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again. ~design typography Article 1304 words 15 votes
Facebook investors launch desperate bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg ~tech social media facebook Article 377 words 14 votes
Blind people can struggle to understand memes, so they made their own ~life Article 1663 words 11 votes
Reddit’s /r/Piracy is deleting almost ten years of history to avoid ban ~tech social media Article 1150 words 33 votes
Near, far, wherever you are - How “people you may know” has made the stranger much stranger ~life relationships Article 2763 words 4 votes
The vigilante shaming influencers for bad behavior in national parks ~enviro Article 1009 words 15 votes
/r/ChangeMyView moderators announce that they are launching their own site at ChangeAView.com ~tech social media Link 41 votes
The golden age of YouTube is over - The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content ~tech google social media Article 4243 words 37 votes
With Facebook ban on white extremism, international norms apply to US ~tech social media facebook Article 680 words 10 votes
Tech Execs Face Jail In Australia If They Don’t Remove “Abhorrent” Content Quickly Enough ~tech social media Article 1038 words 11 votes
Millions of Facebook records were exposed on public Amazon server ~tech amazon privacy facebook social media Article 128 words 14 votes
‘It’s genuine, you know?’: Why the online influencer industry is going ‘authentic’ ~tech social media Article 5749 words 8 votes
Welcome to the prude internet: No more sex talk allowed ~tech nsfw internet social media Article 530 words 32 votes
How I eat for free in NYC using Python, automation, artificial intelligence, and Instagram ~tech social media Article 5295 words, published Feb 24 2019 34 votes
‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords ~tech social media privacy facebook Article 466 words 14 votes
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don't take him seriously. ~tech social media facebook privacy internet Article 786 words 7 votes
Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas ~tech social media facebook internet Article 1068 words 13 votes
Long interview on the influence of Reddit, its culture and history, its place among other social media giants, and other topics such as hate speech and Russian manipulation. ~tech social media Article 3113 words, published Feb 7 2019 7 votes
Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them. ~tech social media facebook Article 1195 words 12 votes
A YouTuber finds wholesome, heartbreaking stories behind silly VRChat avatars ~games Article 1542 words 7 votes
Facebook announces a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram ~tech facebook social media Article 427 words, published Mar 20 2019 29 votes
Reddit testing a new "tip" feature. Giving real money to other users. ~tech social media Link 35 votes
The internet's hidden rules: An empirical study of Reddit norm violations at micro, meso, and macro scales ~science sociology PDF 19 votes