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‘The New Facebook Review Board Will Have No Influence Over Anything That Really Matters In The World’: Siva Vaidhyanathan

“It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service — and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can’t say anything about the toxic content that Facebook allows and promotes on the site. It will have no authority over advertising or the massive surveillance that makes … Continue reading “‘The New Facebook Review Board Will Have No Influence Over Anything That Really Matters In The World’: Siva Vaidhyanathan”

Facebook’s New Independent Oversight Board ‘Has All The Hallmarks Of The UN, Except Potentially Much Less Effective’

Kara Swisher: “I am not trying to be glib here, because solving the problem of how to deal with speech across the largest and most unwieldy communications platform in human history … may be beyond the capabilities of anyone .. given that Facebook and [Mark] Zuckerberg have purposefully created a system that is ungovernable.” – … Continue reading “Facebook’s New Independent Oversight Board ‘Has All The Hallmarks Of The UN, Except Potentially Much Less Effective’”

Zoom Isn’t Sending As Much Of Your Personal Data To Facebook Anymore

Since many of us are having to use Zoom for work and choosing to use it for seeing family and friends, that’s a good change. And we’ll take good news right now, honestly. – Vice

Thousands Sign Petition To Cancel South By Southwest; Facebook And Twitter Pull Out

Fears over the spread of the COVID-19 virus have led more than 20,000 people (so far) to join in the request that organizers call off this year’s festival, which is still scheduled to run March 13-22. And even as the two tech giants withdraw from SXSW, a number of high-profile individuals say they’re still in, … Continue reading “Thousands Sign Petition To Cancel South By Southwest; Facebook And Twitter Pull Out”

How Google, Facebook, Microsoft, And Amazon Became The Most Manipulative Advertisers On TV

“For most of their history, these companies scoffed at traditional media. Can’t measure it, can’t convert viewers into customers, not enough real-time data. Yet here are the 21st century’s most dominant brands behaving like their counterparts of the late 20th, using TV as a key tool to build image and consumer loyalty. Taking a half-step … Continue reading “How Google, Facebook, Microsoft, And Amazon Became The Most Manipulative Advertisers On TV”

Facebook And Misconceptions About Free Speech

“The problem is that Facebook doesn’t offer free speech; it offers free amplification. No one would much care about anything you posted to Facebook, no matter how false or hateful, if people had to navigate to your particular page to read your rantings, as in the very early days of the site.” – TechCrunch

Facebook Would Pay $40 Million For Falsely Inflating Video Metrics

The suit accused Facebook of acknowledging miscalculations in metrics upon press reports, but still not taking responsibility for the breadth of the problem. “The average viewership metrics were not inflated by only 60%-80%; they were inflated by some 150 to 900%,” stated an amended complaint. – The Hollywood Reporter

Facebook Finally Settles With Teacher It Banned For Posting Courbet’s ‘Origin Of The World’

“A French street art association is the unexpected beneficiary in the years-long legal battle brought by the French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas against Facebook over censorship claims. The Paris-based group Le MUR (The WALL), which works with artists including A1One and BK Foxx, is due to receive an undisclosed amount from the social media giant.” – … Continue reading “Facebook Finally Settles With Teacher It Banned For Posting Courbet’s ‘Origin Of The World’”

Facebook, Google, And Twitter Need Constant Moderation, But There’s A Human Cost

The thing is, all of our social media are really “a remarkable dragnet for capturing nearly half of the $600 billion or so of the annual global advertising budget.” Sometimes that doesn’t lead to great conditions for the moderation, or for the moderators. – Los Angeles Review of Books

For Those Who Listened, The Fall Of The Facebook-Dependent News Site Mic Sounded An Alarm

As founders bragged about round after round of funding, those doing the actual work of providing content were getting fed up – and exploited. Millennials who were watching took nervous note. “Like its cousins BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Vice, Mic at times relied on its young and diverse staff to churn out content, respond nimbly to … Continue reading “For Those Who Listened, The Fall Of The Facebook-Dependent News Site Mic Sounded An Alarm”