“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without enormous compromises and realizing that content moderation is the product
Now It's Elon Musk's Turn Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account) Peter Kafka / Vox : The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street kn...
Facebook's research on teens and mental health is not as conclusive as it appears, relying on teens' self-reported views and a small sample size
With each Facebook crisis, we become savvier … Jean Twenge / The Conversation : Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens Maxwell Strachan / VICE : Fa...
Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other
Adventures in context collapse. — 1 hr ago … We Need To Get Rid Of Twitter Trending Topics Tweets: @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ambernoelle , @alexbrucesmith , @trevinwax , @ezraklein , @...
QAnon followers are hijacking #SaveTheChildren, an anti-human-trafficking movement, and joining parenting Facebook Groups in order to gain new followers
whether people realize it or not Daniel Funke / PolitiFact : QAnon, Pizzagate conspiracy theories co-opt #SaveTheChildren Erica Evans / Deseret News : How a recent surge in concern about child sex tra...
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are making the same mistakes big news outlets made decades ago, trying to placate hyperpartisan critics who are “working the refs”
The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn. Tweets: @rottenindenmark , @ryanlcooper , @mark...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, InfoWars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny the Holocaust
Kara Swisher got … Sarah Frier / Bloomberg : Zuckerberg Walks Back Defense of Holocaust Deniers on Facebook Rhett Jones / Gizmodo : Mark Zuckerberg Has a Great Idea for How to Fix Facebook Max Read / ...