Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives
360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://www.wsj.com/... Jesse ...
WSJ's Facebook Files don't show that Facebook's execs are evil or incompetent, but highlight their hubris in believing they can get things back under control
Read in app Shannon Bond / NPR : Senators Blast Facebook For Concealing Instagram's Risks To Kids Tweets: Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2 : So now it is abundantly clear. @JeffHorwitz and the @WSJ were...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and dependency. Social media is...
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
exactly what Apple is attacking FB over.) Depesh Mandalia / @depeshm : Who's signing up for Apple ads?! I love the paradoxical wording: a) the Apple ad platform does not track you b) but don't turn of...
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...
Investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety, based on data from 150 warehouses between 2016-2019, finds rising injury rates, which Amazon has attempted to hide
what they're really doing is speeding up distribution, at greater risk to workers, who are suffering *more* injuries as a result https://revealnews.org/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : This is just ...
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...
Over fifteen journalists describe covering Facebook, which they say lies on the record, has ghost-written op-eds, and received quote approval for interviews
One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Tweets: @mattrosoff , @silvermanjacob , @dse...
As Twitter adds a warning to Trump's tweet advocating violence against Minneapolis protesters, so far Facebook and Instagram have left similar posts unchanged
and survival T.C. Sottek / The Verge : Twitter isn't a government, but it's the best one we've got Tweets: Daniel Kreiss / @kreissdaniel : Don't let Zuckerberg peddle a ‘free speech’ line unchallenged...
Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products
and refuses to stop Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump's Twitter?, how Bill Gates became … Anmol Mehrotra / Neowin : Facebook reportedly knew ...