Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more
Vittoria Elliott / Wired : X: @telliotter X: Tori Elliott / @telliotter : Meta's platforms are still critical for many people, and could likely have a major impact on global democracy. But the compan...
After Big Tech cut thousands of trust and safety staff, Sero AI and other outsourcing startups sell the services, which experts warn bring problems of their own
The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own. X: @daphnehk , @gabenicholas , @tnewmstweet ...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Sources: some former US Twitter employees finally received their severance agreements, offering only one month of base pay as severance and no prorated bonuses
and they fall short of expectations. https://fortune.com/... https://twitter.com/... Gergely Orosz / @gergelyorosz : This is mad. The 50% of staff who were laid off from Twitter on 4 November this yea...
Lenders in India are using coercive loan apps that block features and shut down smartphones of customers who fall behind on payments
Lenders are turning to coercive loan apps that shut down smartphones if customers fall behind on payments. — • BANGALORE, INDIA Tweets: @restofworld , @restofworld , @chrismessina , @diya_iamdb , @m...
How Line's Fact Checker program, which lets users voluntarily report suspicious messages, is tackling misinformation without sacrificing user privacy
The chat app's Fact Checker program is proving that private messaging platforms can do more to moderate harmful content. Tweets: @mantzarlis , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @restofworld , @telliotter ,...
Experts say lessons marketed by digital education platforms like Byju's and Yuanfudao are more an innovation in test-prep delivery than in learning outcomes
Investors have poured billions of dollars into digital education platforms like Byju's and Yuanfudao. But are students learning anything? Tweets: @cengizyar , @restofworld , @frankcatalano , @telliot...
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased
how they looked, what political views they held, who they were friends with, and who tagged them in posts https://restofworld.org/... Garry Tan / @garrytan : Reminder that most new culture in the worl...
Inside “PGM” Facebook groups, the largest of which has 160,000+ members, where Brazilians collect, share, and memorialize the accounts of the recently deceased
Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian Facebook users were gathering to memorialize total strangers. Tweets: @garrytan , @decka227 , @cengizyar , @renske_visser , @restofworld , @j_fuller , @res...
How a Pakistan-born developer's open letter to Tim Cook helped bring the Urdu language typeface to Apple devices
a script like “the wings of flying geese”—users resort to transliteration with Latin fonts. @AlizehKohari investigates. https://restofworld.org/... Tori Elliott / @telliotter : If you need something h...