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Jeremy B. Merrill

@jeremybmerrill
18 posts
2022-08-25
Crypto's massive marketing efforts (Super Bowl, anyone?) have drawn basically no *new* investors, Pew research suggests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-08-25 View on X
Washington Post

Despite huge ad campaigns by crypto companies, a Pew survey of US adults shows those trading crypto has stayed flat at 16% from September 2021 to July 2022

The majority of Americans remain immune to the industry's sales pitches, Pew survey finds  —  Over the past year, crypto companies like FTX …

2021-04-10
If you advertise a job opening on Facebook, Facebook will *automatically* deliver it disproportionately to people of the gender who already have that job. Is that just how advertising works in 2021? Nope! The researchers found that LinkedIn's job ads were delivered in a fair way https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Researchers say Facebook's algorithms disproportionately show certain types of job ads to men and women; no evidence of gender skewing was found on LinkedIn

Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal :

2021-02-15
an oopsies meant Facebook kept algorithmically recommending misinfo-filled political groups for MONTHS after FB promised to stop contrast that with @krishnagade 's thread about on-call engineers paging ML experts to retrain models if Likes declined https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
OneZero

What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage

Social networks would love to show users less political content.  Here's why that's a problem.

2021-01-27
What's so fascinating about is that it's only indirectly a content moderation battle, since the platform is built to make content moderation impossible. It's about design. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-27 View on X
Al Jazeera

Iran blocks Signal after Iranians flocked to the messaging service due to privacy concerns about WhatsApp

With Signal shut down, WhatsApp and Instagram remain the only two unblocked major social media platforms.  —  Tehran, Iran - Iran's government has moved to block Signal …

What's so fascinating about is that it's only indirectly a content moderation battle, since the platform is built to make content moderation impossible. It's about design. https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-27 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Signal's rapid growth following WhatsApp privacy changes has raised concerns from Signal staff who worry the service's new features will be misused

2020-12-17
Let's just count our blessings, at least Facebook didn't accuse Apple of doing a Cambridge Analytica by disclosing the workings of Facebook's iOS app. 🙄
2020-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Facebook hits back at Apple with a second full-page newspaper ad today, says upcoming iOS changes will “change the internet as we know it - for the worse”

Facebook isn't done criticizing Apple just yet  —  Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple's privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today.

Let's just count our blessings, at least Facebook didn't accuse Apple of doing a Cambridge Analytica by disclosing the workings of Facebook's iOS app. 🙄
2020-12-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses

and they should have the choice to allow that or not.” https://twitter.com/... @fbnewsroom : We're standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere. #SpeakUpForSmall https://ab...

translation: Facebook ads will be less effective—and thus businesses large and small will pay Facebook less for them—if Apple stops Facebook from surveilling what you do on your iPhone. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Facebook hits back at Apple with a second full-page newspaper ad today, says upcoming iOS changes will “change the internet as we know it - for the worse”

Facebook isn't done criticizing Apple just yet  —  Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple's privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today.

translation: Facebook ads will be less effective—and thus businesses large and small will pay Facebook less for them—if Apple stops Facebook from surveilling what you do on your iPhone. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses

and they should have the choice to allow that or not.” https://twitter.com/... @fbnewsroom : We're standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere. #SpeakUpForSmall https://ab...

2020-10-25
Facebook promised to stop selling discriminatory job ads. I showed in August that they're still doing it anyways. Now Facebook is making legal threats to shut down #AdObservatory —the only project that lets us keep them honest. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-25 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Facebook asks NYU Ad Observatory, which analyzes political ad targeting using data collected from a browser extension, to cease the practice for violating TOS

In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection

2020-10-24
Facebook promised to stop selling discriminatory job ads. I showed in August that they're still doing it anyways. Now Facebook is making legal threats to shut down #AdObservatory —the only project that lets us keep them honest. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Facebook asks NYU Ad Observatory, which analyzes political ad targeting using data collected from a browser extension, to cease the practice for violating TOS

In letter this month, Facebook says the project violates provisions in its terms of service that prohibit bulk data collection

2020-07-24
I feel like there's a through line between this and the mixup over CrowdTangle data about inflammatory political news being popular: Facebook resists imperfect research, but doesn't enable better research (or if it's happening internally, doesn't publish the results). https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-24 View on X
NBC News

Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed

In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses …

2019-08-29
Fifteen months ago, Facebook began requiring political ads to say who paid for them. *Now* it's going to start trying to make sure that the organization that paid for the ad actually exists by checking FEC IDs and EINs. Why'd it take so long? 🤷 https://newsroom.fb.com/...
2019-08-29 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook tightens rules for political advertisers in the US, requiring further identity proof such as tax-id number or Federal Election Commission registration

for free, to anyone — that blows publicly-available information about TV advertising out of the water https://twitter.com/... Lachlan Markay / @lachlan : This is potentially fantas...

2019-08-28
Fifteen months ago, Facebook began requiring political ads to say who paid for them. *Now* it's going to start trying to make sure that the organization that paid for the ad actually exists by checking FEC IDs and EINs. Why'd it take so long? 🤷 https://newsroom.fb.com/...
2019-08-28 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook tightens rules on political advertisers, requiring further identity proof such as tax-identification number or Federal Election Commission registration

Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election …

2019-08-24
A man bought a defective helmet on Amazon that was sold as compliant with DOT rules — but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2019-08-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators

but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Thing...

Amazon sells stuff. Uber is a taxi company. we've let companies basically gaslight us into saying, “well, technically” they're not doing what they're obviously doing... by pretending that the details of their contracts with their affiliates matter. https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators

but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : Thing...

2019-08-23
A man bought a defective helmet on Amazon that was sold as compliant with DOT rules — but which really wasn't. “Amazon in court argued it didn't sell the helmet but merely listed it on the seller's behalf.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2019-08-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators

Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its sit...

Amazon sells stuff. Uber is a taxi company. we've let companies basically gaslight us into saying, “well, technically” they're not doing what they're obviously doing... by pretending that the details of their contracts with their affiliates matter. https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Investigation finds 4,152 items on Amazon that were declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled, or are banned by regulators

Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its sit...