Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic
See Cambridge Analytica and Meta Facebook. @daaitoulaam : Who cares? Threads is dead fish. [embedded post] @humoristguy : Meta can kiss at least 65% of their users good-bye. Zuck will never change ...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more
they are using so much of it no single creator or publisher matters, and they're striking deals to keep the loudest happy. Sort of good that @zuck just came right out and said it on Decoder so everyo...
Ahead of the midterms, US political campaigns are using voter-profiling companies and vast amounts of data to target campaign ads on guns, vaccines, and QAnon
even a “Trump resistance” score. Yes, you too may have a “QAnon Believer” score. https://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Rosen / @juliarosen : The one when the NYT discovers models and scores. Decade late t...
Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue”
where they run circles around legislators. How different could it be if community leaders who understand technology and civil rights served in Congress? https://twitter.com/... @gregbensinger : Facebo...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture”
none — ever gives you a generous, long runway to respond in the future https://twitter.com/... Eli Dourado / @elidourado : Fools! Didn't you know that when an elite reporter comes after your livelihoo...
A look at Parler, backed by Rebekah Mercer, which has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter leaves moderation to users
primarily the removal of spam, threats of violence, or illegal activity—is handled by ‘community jurors’, all currently volunteers.” https://www.wsj.com/... Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown : So.........not ...
Overview of major efforts by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Dustin Moskovitz, and Laurene Powell Jobs to boost Joe Biden's chances in the upcoming election
Eric Schmidt's data play, STAC Labs, is run by Martha Laning, the former head of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. #wipolitics https://twitter.com/... Cate Long / @cate_long : “Republicans have invested...
Sources: Banjo, an AI-powered surveillance insights firm, used a shadow company to push benign-looking Android and iOS apps that secretly scraped social media
follow music news—but designed to harvest innocent users' data. Source said did same as Cambridge Analytica but “more nefariously” https://www.vice.com/...
Social Science One and Facebook say they are now making a dataset with ~38M URLs available to academic researchers, two years after announcing the initiative
and acted with such hesitation — before releasing a massive batch of data. Beats the alternative. https://twitter.com/... Gary King / @kinggary : Today, we released a privacy-protective Facebook datas...