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12 votes
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Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
15 votes -
Reddit introduces new "Start Chatting" feature across many subreddits, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest to broken promises
57 votes -
Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
8 votes -
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company
7 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet
9 votes -
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory fueled by coordinated effort
6 votes -
Twitter removes privacy option, and shows why we need strong privacy laws
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YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks
26 votes -
Operation red herring | YouTube geographic
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The difficulties of moderating COVID-19 misinformation when even statements from official sources are questionable
7 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
17 votes -
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
27 votes -
How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
12 votes -
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is
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Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
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Inside the pro-Donald Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
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Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
21 votes -
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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Sharing photos has the potential to reveal a lot of personal information, even if you're careful with removing metadata
9 votes -
The future will be technical: a modular essay about our optimistic future
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Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web
9 votes -
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
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Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called "Fleets," which disappear after twenty-four hours and can't receive likes, retweets, or replies
10 votes -
Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app, has been censoring keywords relating to the COVID-19 outbreak since at least Jan. 1, according to a new report
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Censored contagion - How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
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Hank Green - The "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer" reported by CNN is misleading
10 votes -
Arrest warrant issued in the Philippines for Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, under cyberlibel charges brought by the site's current owner
17 votes -
Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability
13 votes -
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
5 votes -
Reddit's 2019 Transparency Report
15 votes -
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
19 votes -
The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
10 votes -
How to make a Kurzgesagt vídeo in 1200 hours or more
15 votes -
The YouTube copyright metagame part 1: The history of Copyright on YouTube and How YouTubers deal with it
7 votes -
After a TikTok user in Brazil live-streamed his suicide, TikTok took over an hour to notice and then spent three more hours figuring out a PR strategy before informing police
16 votes -
How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts
10 votes -
The internet of beefs
11 votes -
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
9 votes -
YouTube: bad? - Shannon Strucci's musing on YouTube, fan toxicity, issues with takedowns, and the ups and downs of a YouTube career
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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
12 votes -
Product Hunt has launched YourStack, a social network for people to share products they use and love
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Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
13 votes -
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
26 votes -
Tildes users on the fediverse
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?...
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?
Connecting with some more people from here sounds nice :)
13 votes