Journalists and activists worry Twitter's new privacy policy will be weaponized and make their jobs harder, due to vague terms like “the public interest”
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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...
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill
but what was lost along the way? Micky : Facebook versus Australia: the government hands Facebook a free pass Max Willens / Digiday : Cheat sheet: Facebook brings news back to platform in Australia - ...
A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the endeavor
one that's also an obvious part of @Facebook's PR strategy. https://www.newyorker.com/... Alex Kozak / @alexkozak : Such amazing reporting here from @Klonick. She manages to capture a lot about tech c...
Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week
from apps down to infrastructure — the higher the bar for banning content/users. Amazon booting Parler off AWS > Apple/Google banning Parler from app stores > Twitter banning Trump Would be more worri...
The time has come for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to deplatform Trump, whose continued presence is accelerating the erosion of US democracy
In December 2016, when then-President-elect Donald Trump summoned tech leaders … Wall Street Journal : ‘Trump or War’: How the Capitol Mob Mobilized on Social Media Gilad Edelman / Wired : Even Mark Z...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
- CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China Tweets: @sarahfrier , @moonalice , @frankpasquale , @mathewi , @benthomps...
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
media company execs, 6 months from now. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Facebook News, not so m...