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4 votes
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Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
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Inside the pro-Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
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I wonder what the social media meta data is like right now
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what...
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what kind of research they are doing? I know it's all usually a tight secret.
One idea that came to mind is that this would be excellent data to weaponize. Now we (as in social media corps.) can generate a pretty good model of what a global conflict looks like on the level of individual behavior and how that can be used for an advantage. The other edge of the sword would be this will help future public health initiatives but somehow I don't see this info being made publically available...
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Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
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Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available to everyone
15 votes -
Facebook to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Competition between video game streaming platforms is heating up as Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook Gaming lure away high-profile Twitch streamers with multi-million-dollar offers
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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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
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Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries
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Part 1 of an investigation into a network of fake Facebook accounts with AI-generated profile photos, being used to promote TheBL.com
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Facebook is working on its own OS that could reduce its reliance on Android
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FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
12 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
12 votes -
Beat Saber developer Beat Games has been acquired by Facebook
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Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
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Thousands flock to Wikipedia founder's 'Facebook rival'
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Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network named WT:Social
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John Carmack announces that he is mostly stepping away from Oculus, and intends to work on artificial general intelligence (AGI)
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Social networking and dog food
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Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy
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Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
15 votes -
Designing Facebook's new company branding
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The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users
12 votes -
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
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Facebook and Instagram ban usage of "commonly sexual emojis" along with solicitations for nude images or sex
10 votes -
"Facebook is wrong and I have receipts"—Jedd Legum provides proof Daily Wire is gaming Facebook's algorithm
@juddlegum: 1. UPDATE: So in response to my report that The Daily Wire is gaming Facebook with a network of 14 large pages Facebook released a new statement. Facebook says these are "real pages run by real people" Facebook is wrong and I have receipts https://t.co/z5s3LsOMm3
11 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News
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Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city
8 votes -
Congressional hearing - An examination of Facebook and its impact on the financial services and housing sectors
7 votes -
The Internet and the Third Estate
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Sweden central bank governor Stefan Ingves calls Facebook's Libra a 'catalytic event'
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Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
10 votes -
Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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Facebook’s Libra association crumbling as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others exit
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How the women-only Facebook group Minbar-Shat helped overthrow the Sudanese government
7 votes -
Facebook's Dating Service is Full of Red Flags
19 votes -
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest
27 votes -
PayPal drops out of Facebook’s Libra payments network, as other financial partners reconsider their involvement
13 votes -
Facebook launches "Threads from Instagram", a new camera-first messaging app
5 votes -
US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps
10 votes -
Social Networks or Social Nightmares? with Roger McNamee, Max Schrems and Evgeny Morozov
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
11 votes -
Facebook has taken down the popular 'World USA' page with almost 1 million followers after being exposed as a Ukrainian-based operation targeting older Americans with pro-Trump content
9 votes