Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
whose ads are already public and whose data Facebook stores in a public archive. https://www.protocol.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : NEW: Senate Intel Chair @MarkWarner condemns Facebook's decision...
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
to be clear, this graph shows the drop in traffic from Facebook to Australian news publishers. It's obvious, yes, but that makes it no less dramatic. The article goes on explain the situation in detai...
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speech and disinformation...
UK ICO publishes three-year investigation into Cambridge Analytica, finding no evidence that CA or associate company SCL misused data to influence Brexit vote
and even within the company, staff worried that Nix & Co. were exaggerating CA's “impact and influence.” This jibes with reporting by @nytimes, @BuzzFeed, and others in 2017. Benedict Evans / @benedic...
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China
Apple is committed to being transparent … Kim Lyons / The Verge : Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP : ...