Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims
things like videos of pandas and a CEO talking about how great it was to move his start-up to China. 3 former employees say these pieces of content were sometimes “pinned” to the top of the app feed. ...
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....
Survey of 1,000 tech industry workers: 51% believe “Trump has a point when it comes to the media producing fake news” and 59% favor working with the US military
A new study by BuzzFeed News and Lucid surveyed tech workers on their attitudes toward the media. Tweets: @anandwrites , @wesyang , @emilybell , @carnage4life , @cequirk , @bernstein , @went1955 , @ma...
Leaked Facebook employee thread about now-deleted Boz memo had ~3,000 comments, with dozens criticizing leakers, others empathizing with users
Yesterday afternoon, BuzzFeed published … Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed : Sen. Ed Markey Says “Congress Must Act” When Facebook Fails To Maintain Safety On Its Platform Sam Levin / The Guardian : Interna...
Facebook's focus on Groups, and the tools to build and promote them, can be easily exploited by bad actors like Russia, Mueller indictment shows
except Russia — in his weekend Twitter tirade Catherine Shu / TechCrunch : Facebook will verify the location of US election ad buyers by mailing them postcards Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook will u...
Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia, many of them popular from pro-Trump “news” during election; publishers assumed they were safe after buying ads
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @niemanlab , @buzzfeedben , @rkapkap , @davidmackau , @craigsilverman , @mattmittenthal , @miriamelder , and @jimwaterson Tweets: @niemanlab : The topics of kille...