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8 votes
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Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab (owner of Whisper, Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino, Genius, etc.)
26 votes -
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
9 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
Twitter rolls out tipping with bitcoin, explores verifying NFT profile pics
7 votes -
Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord
46 votes -
A deeper look into how YouTube’s recommendation system works
14 votes -
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
16 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth (presentation by Tom Scott)
7 votes -
TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
18 votes -
Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime
14 votes -
High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
12 votes -
Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook
5 votes -
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
50 votes -
Youtube screws me over for three years and counting
2 votes -
Can we mock and/or threaten people into changing their beliefs? (And more importantly, should we?)
9 votes -
How the modern world makes us mentally ill – Dr. Jonathan Haidt
6 votes -
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban, will continue to allow sexually explicit content
35 votes -
Some background regarding the recent OnlyFans changes
@Post-Culture Review: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong, and the reality of it is a lot more damaging and concerning to both the livelihood of sex workers and online freedom in general.
26 votes -
OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Facebook's new "Widely Viewed Content" report doesn't provide meaningful transparency, and seems to be full of errors and spam
5 votes -
Yik Yak, the anonymous app that tested free speech, is back
10 votes -
Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS
14 votes -
Through the looking GLASS - Om Malik interview with the developers of GLASS, a subscription photo sharing app
3 votes -
Reddit is raising up to $700M in Series F funding, at a valuation of over $10 billion
23 votes -
Mastodon is now a non-profit organization
15 votes -
Why AI struggles to recognize toxic speech on social media
8 votes -
Envy
15 votes -
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
14 votes -
Twitter and anti-intellectualism
9 votes -
Reddit has banned the misogynistic "Men Going Their Own Way" subreddits r/MGTOW and r/MGTOW2
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. SRD: r/MGTOW has been banned r/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of...
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀.
SRD: r/MGTOW has been bannedr/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of a U.S. Coast Guard officer planning a domestic terrorist attack.
37 votes -
Never Gonna Give You Up has passed one billion views on YouTube
@Rick Astley: 1 BILLION views for Never Gonna Give You Up on @YouTube ! Amazing, crazy, wonderful!Rick ♥️https://t.co/mzyLznTr4R #NGGYU #NGGYU1Billion pic.twitter.com/p5xnn0OZcZ
12 votes -
The 13-year-old skater who just won silver in Tokyo first found fame when Tony Hawk spotted her on Instagram
14 votes -
Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
12 votes -
18-year-old member of online harassment group sentenced to five years in prison after "swatting" the owner of a desirable Twitter handle, resulting in a fatal heart attack
31 votes -
How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
19 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
9 votes -
If you had to teach a class about information literacy, what would your key points be?
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and...
I'm in an online course right now that touches upon information literacy: the ability to access, sort through, and analyze information (particularly online). It is not a very in-depth course, and a lot of the recommendations it gives feel a little limited/dated, or just out of touch with current internet practices (e.g. trust .edu and .gov sites -- don't trust .com sites; use Britannica Online instead of Wikipedia). It also doesn't really account for things like memes, social media, or really much of the modern internet landscape.
I know we have a lot of very technically literate as well as informationally literate people here, and I'm curious: if you were tasked with creating a class to help people learn information literacy, including how to identify misinformation online, what would some of your key points or focuses be? How would you convey those to your students (whether those students are kids, adults, or both)?
17 votes -
The blurred lines of parasocial relationships
5 votes -
The last time I got into an internet argument
16 votes -
Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature. In its place at the top of the timeline will be Spaces, Twitter's live audio chat rooms.
9 votes -
Black players on England football team bombarded with racist abuse on social media
19 votes -
How to download photos from Facebook?
So my spouse is getting fed up with Facebook and would like to download all of her photos and ideally any photos others have taken that she’s tagged in. She’d like to do a single bulk download,...
So my spouse is getting fed up with Facebook and would like to download all of her photos and ideally any photos others have taken that she’s tagged in. She’d like to do a single bulk download, but is having trouble navigating Facebook’s intentionally confusing settings to do this. I don’t have an account and have never used Facebook beyond reading the occasional post a friend has sent me, so I don’t really know how to help in this case.
This guide claims to be from 2021. Following the steps in section 3 we see something that looks very similar but not exactly the same under her settings. Where they have a list containing items like “Posts”, “Photos and videos”, “Comments”, etc. We see a different list and it doesn’t have any option for “Photos and Videos.” There is one section titled, “Short videos”, but nothing about photos at all. Has Facebook changed this recently, or does she have some weird setting that’s causing it not to show up? Or is the guide just wrong? (Or maybe they’re A/B testing something and that’s why she isn’t seeing it?)
Any help appreciated. Thanks!
EDIT: I think we figured it out. It looks like Posts and Photos have been combined into just "Posts" with no mention of photos whatsoever. When you get the resulting .zip file, it contains the photos, though. It's typically shitty of Facebook.
12 votes -
Interview with Jonathan Rauch on epistemic disruption
4 votes -
You really need to quit Twitter
21 votes -
WeChat deletes Chinese university LGBT accounts in fresh crackdown
16 votes -
Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
13 votes -
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
14 votes -
YouTube regrets - A crowdsourced investigation into YouTube's recommendation algorithm, using data volunteered by 37,000 users via a browser extension
20 votes