An internal September 2018 Facebook memo found ~40% of traffic to Pages went to those with plagiarized or recycled content
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @learmonth , @danieldrepper , @ericgarland , @epro , @arpcomics , @mattrosoff , @jeffhorwitz , @jason_kint , @jason_kint , and @jason_kint Tweets: Michael Learmonth / @l...
Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities”
In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India. Tweets: @jason_kint , @damomusings , @verambergen , @skjain_05 , @k...
Facebook says it accidentally removed thousands of posts around the Jan. 6 riots from CrowdTangle, blaming a now-fixed error that has existed since at least May
The social media company said it was a technical error, and has been fixed, but tens of thousands of posts are still missing. Tweets: @markscott82 , @natematias , @markscott82 , @jason_kint , @profcar...
Many internet privacy proposals circulating today are in direct conflict with those to increase market competition, as they would further entrench big platforms
The consumer internet industry spent two decades building a huge, complex, chaotic pile of tools and systems to track and analyse … Tweets: @matthew_d_green , @cnbctechcheck , @sgtholly , @privacymatt...
[Thread] Facebook's future prospects remain strong as the secular rise of digital advertising blunts any headwinds from regulators, Apple, critics, and others
Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert : Tweets: @mchowla , @barryschwartzbw , @chronotope , @johnhuber72 , @jongold , @pbannist , @johnkoetsier , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert ...
Profile of Paul Romer, once tech's favorite economist and now a critic, who has championed state taxes on the digital ads sold by Facebook and Google
Paul Romer's call for government activism, particularly toward the big tech companies, reflects “a profound change in my thinking.” Tweets: @ramaswmysridhar , @1br0wn , @staceynycdc , @hoofnagle , @an...
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @taraemcg , @marietjeschaake , @jason_kint , @craigsilverman , and @rmac18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : ""They are the arbiters of the consequences f...
Sources: Facebook didn't apply hate speech rules to at least four flagged individuals and groups in India, showing a pattern of favoritism to Modi's party
Company executive in vital market opposed move to ban controversial politician; some employees allege favoritism to ruling party Tweets: @jeffhorwitz , @seemay , @rmac18 , @tmclaughlin3 , @jeffhorwitz...
Forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news could lead to uncritical reporting on tech; better approaches would tackle roots of media woes, including ad markets
Exponent — as promised! — will be back tomorrow, talking about podcasting, Spotify, and working from home. — On to the update: Tweets: @raju , @jason_kint , @jarroddicker , @dkiesow , @mattyglesias ...
Many schools in the US, including Syracuse U., track students' phones to monitor class attendance, as some worry it desensitizes students to 24/7 surveillance
When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin's Introduction to Information Technologies class … Tweets: @drewharwell , @adamd_hill , @privacyattorney , @g_solaria , @jreidenberg , ...