Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Ben Werdmuller / @benwerd : For better or worse, these changes will be a major accelerant for decentralization. Protocols don't host. https://www.protocol.com/... Chris...
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Not Help — the Internet Tweets: Mark Warner / @markwarner : The SAFE TECH Act doesn't interfere with free speech - it's about allowing these platforms to finally be held accountable for harmful, often...
While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus
in 2020, GOOG will generate $54.3B operating income (43% margin) and FB will pull in $33.7B (49% margin), per revised forecast by Cowen & Co. https://variety.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Facebo...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...
By claiming that Facebook was not aware of a widespread misuse of user data by outside developers, Mark Zuckerberg sends a message that he thinks we are idiots
Facebook's troublesome and troubling ambition... Enrique Dans : Facebook: from naivety to stupidity Kinsey Grant / TheStreet : It's Dumb to Think Mark Zuckerberg Isn't Facebook's Biggest Risk Right No...
Sources: Facebook has been contacting ad agencies and trade bodies to reassure them that customer data is being protected in light of Cambridge Analytica news
Mozilla, Sonos, Commerzbank and Pep Boys—suspend ads http://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : The psychologist who shared Facebook user data with Cambridge Analytica wanted medica...
Sources on how Cambridge Analytica milked Mercer-backed GOP candidates, including Cruz campaign, which paid $5.8M and compared the firm to a Ponzi scheme
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones : Tweets: @keith_ng , @jayrosen_nyu , @andykroll , @annmarlowe , @jerry_jtaylor , @clarajeffery , @clarajeffery , @mattkmoore , @politicoryan , and @persuasivepr See also Me...
Amazon's warehouse expansion around San Bernardino, CA brought jobs but data shows Amazon's warehouse staff earn less than similar US workers employed elsewhere
Destroying good jobs and treating people like the machines it will eventually replace them with. Ben Tarnoff / @bentarnoff : Pair this with the recent @EconomicPolicy report showing that Amazon wareho...