Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection
I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stuart Andrew Thompson /...
Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban
“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/... Adrianne Jeff...
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert / VICE : Current Face...
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition
Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billion dollar buy labell...
YouTube shows how it's cracking down on election disinformation: removing doctored and misleading videos, as well as those questioning a candidate's eligibility
and they're already supporting Republicans like John Cornyn, Cory Gardner, David Perdue, and Thom Tillis. Help us fight back and #FlipTheSenate in November: http://www.flipthesenate.com/ https://twitt...
Grubhub admits to adding restaurants without their permission, after restaurateur found her Thai restaurant had a page on Grubhub and its subsidiary Seamless
Pim Techamuanvivit was managing her Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in San Francisco, Kin Khao, around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday when she got an unexpected call. Tweets: @hingeloss , @noyokono , @artguy1...
When DEA got a warrant for LogMeIn to divulge a user's passwords, LastPass' encryption scheme meant it couldn't produce them, but other customer info was given
the decryption key—is the user's master password” http://www.forbes.com/... @sashaperigo : How does this chalk up to other password manager's policies? This is pretty disturbing. http://twitter.com/.....
How Right Media, a New York-based adtech company, built the first internet ad exchange in 2005 and gave birth to programmatic advertising
In celebration of New York Magazine's 50th anniversary, this series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city's culture. Tweets: @jarroddicke...
Coinbase says it has re-enabled cryptocurrency trading after suspending it for several hours due to “high traffic”
Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Frank Chaparro / Business Insider : Trading halted on Coinbase — the largest US crypto exchange — as bitcoin tanks Tweets: @techcrunch : Update: Coinbase up...
W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects
Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline :