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4 votes
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When we give in to manufactured internet wars
7 votes -
Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
17 votes -
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
7 votes -
A top YouTube makeup artist revealed she’s transgender. She said she was blackmailed into it.
19 votes -
The Fediverse in 2019
15 votes -
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
5 votes -
Australia's bushfire emergency is being exploited on social media, as misinformation is spread through cyberspace via hundreds of thousands of posts.
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's...
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media
This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's a multitude of reasons why the fire extent has bene so devastating. I think a warming planet would be part of that — [but] the biggest part of that is arsonists," he said.
13 votes -
The bot scare
5 votes -
Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries
14 votes -
Sweet Anita on Tourette's racial slur controversy
11 votes -
Alienated, alone and angry: What the digital revolution really did to us
15 votes -
JK Rowling's Maya Forstater tweets support hostile work environments, not free speech
27 votes -
"Link in bio": it seems like a harmless phrase, but it represents a strategy of controlling users and keeping them away from the open web
15 votes -
The terror queue - Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that's giving them PTSD
13 votes -
YouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is "feeling very tired"
24 votes -
Finland's finance minister deleted an Instagram post and issued an apology after criticism by a human rights group
4 votes -
“Join Reddit to keep reading” - an account is now required to read comment threads on the mobile website
54 votes -
Mastodon founder, Eugen, responding to Twitter's Bluesky announcement
21 votes -
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
3 votes -
The age of Instagram face - How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look
11 votes -
Twitter announces "bluesky", an investigation of decentralization standards for social media, with the goal of converting Twitter into a client
25 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
Some Reddit comments are being hidden by default as "potentially toxic content" (i.e. a swear filter)
38 votes -
Suspected campaign from Russia on Reddit
31 votes -
What do you think about YouTube rewind 2019?
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online...
What do you think about it? I personally think it's just another rewind showcasing how YouTube is prioritizing more generic audiences and content because YouTube has pratically turned into online video and is more focused on growing into audiences who use the Internet for entertainment and to pander to advertisers and since YouTube is more the, rather than a platform, pretending the entirety of YouTube is or at this point even could be a united community without massive, world-wide changes to society is just incorrect. The list format like watchmojo is probably to pretend they have backpedaled and that they're now unbiased. (Also they have done it in this format before.)
14 votes -
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
12 votes -
YouTube Rewind 2019
4 votes -
TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities
16 votes -
Tumblr’s first year without porn
18 votes -
We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo
8 votes -
Why TikTok is now the number one social media app
9 votes -
Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR
14 votes -
Why is Instagram deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars?
24 votes -
What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
10 votes -
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Cancel culture" has always existed - for the powerful, at least - now social media has democratized it
18 votes -
Twitter adds 'hide reply' function to try to improve online conversation
7 votes -
The online left goes to war: Stefan Bertram-Lee was an internet leftist. And then they went to Rojava [Northern Syria / Western Kurdistan] and got a gun
10 votes -
Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
31 votes -
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: content moderation at scale is impossible to do well
10 votes -
Kylie Jenner shows me what's wrong with Reddit
9 votes -
Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
30 votes -
Would you pay for social media platforms and search engines if it meant they would not have any advertising or data collection?
(Someone posted a thread like this but for triple-a videogames rather than software and people said no so I wonder if software is gonna be different.) If you would or not, why? If you would, how...
(Someone posted a thread like this but for triple-a videogames rather than software and people said no so I wonder if software is gonna be different.)
If you would or not, why? If you would, how much? What would be the side effects of this change if it was applied on a mass scale? What would be the potential drawbacks?
Edit: Can also apply to video-sharing platforms or forums or instant messengers any software as long as it serves a general purpose and complies with what's mentioned above.
26 votes -
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network named WT:Social
56 votes -
Moments Without Truth
5 votes -
YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more
16 votes -
Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on Reddit
14 votes -
New YouTube terms will allow Google to terminate accounts that it determines are not "commercially viable"
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10: YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its...
Relevant part of YouTube TOS that'll come into effect on 2019-12-10:
YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.
However, it's not clear whether "Service" is YouTube or whole Google account. As we've seen in Markiplier affair, violating YouTube TOS meant that people lost access to their whole Google account - including gmail and gdrive.
37 votes -
Social networking and dog food
9 votes -
Viacom sues YouTube for a billion dollars | YouTube Geographic
6 votes