Below are posts associated with the “Facebook” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Is So Sure Its Erroneous Blocking Of Music Is Right, There’s No Option To Say It’s Wrong | Techdirt'
Intellectual property is important, but copyright filters are an absolute mess.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Bans People For Simply Saying Abortion Pills Exist | Techdirt'
A terrifying teminder that content moderation can easily overreach.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right. | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Doctorow is spot on here. Apple may be the most benevolent of the big tech companies, but it still has far too much power over its users.
🔗 linkblog: Facebook-Hired PR Firm Coordinated Anti-TikTok Campaign To Spread Bogus Moral Panics | Techdirt'
TikTok should not be protected from criticism, but it should not be subjected to this garbage either.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Researchers explain why they believe Facebook mishandles political ads : NPR'
Size and scale remain problems for Facebook and other social media platforms.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK regulator - The Verge'
I had completely forgotten that Meta owned Giphy.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Security Researcher Finds Facebook App Tracking iPhone Movements'
Accelerometer data can be used for invasive tracking, and Facebook seems to be doing so. This is truly scary stuff.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'After Facebook Leaks, Here Is What Should Come Next | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
Always appreciate the EFF’s perspective.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook Changes Corporate Name to Meta - The New York Times'
The weirdest part of this article to me is how you have Frances Haugen talking to the UK Parliament in one paragraph and then Nick Clegg—former deputy PM—defending “Meta” as their employee not long after.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Google and Facebook’s Ad Empires - The New York Times'
Tech companies are often ad companies, and it behooves us to remember that.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules | Ars Technica'
Facebook might need more moderators, but they shouldn’t be company executives…
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook whistleblower hearing: France Haugen finally got Republicans to stop yapping about anti-conservative bias.'
Interesting article. I’m particularly interested in the idea of focusing on algorithms rather than content.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million | Ars Technica'
A compelling reminder that social media companies make money from eyeballs pointed at screens.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Political parties complained Facebook’s algorithm promoted polarization - The Verge'
What a read. Platforms don’t just host content, they manipulate that content.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Secret Facebook program reportedly let celebrities avoid moderation - The Verge'
Bookmarking this for my content management class.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized - The Verge'
Interesting take on inauthentic content on Facebook.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook's Most Viewed Article In Early 2021 Raised Doubt About COVID Vaccine : NPR'
I agree that it’s difficult to define misinformation in cases like this, but “cleaning house before inviting company” is absolutely a problem if the mess is what we’re coming to evaluate. Even a fact-based article can be used to misinformative ends, and it’s important that we know things like that are happening.