9 Best Articles in 2020
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
1043 saves · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
Gizmodo
9 min read · 701 saves · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
WIRED
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
WIRED
519 saves · 2019-04-16 · Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
The Guardian
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
The Guardian
5 min read · 455 saves · Jul 26th · Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer writer who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is the sicker for it
WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
WIRED
3 min read · 401 saves · Feb 12th · In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.
The Verge
Three Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose a company in crisis
The Verge
20+ min read · 372 saves · 2019-06-19 · Casey Newton
Visual Capitalist
Chart: Here's How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions
Visual Capitalist
5 min read · 358 saves · From 2017 · on May 12, 2017 at 1:03 pm The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Last year, we published a chart showing that tech companies have displaced traditional blue chip…
VICE
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
VICE
348 saves · Mar 26th · Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.
WIRED
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
WIRED
2 min read · 340 saves · Mar 22nd · Gilad Edelman · From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.
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The Atlantic
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The Atlantic
~15 min read · 315 saves · Dec 15th · The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
BuzzFeed News
Facebook Is Developing A Tool To Summarize News Articles
BuzzFeed News
3 min read · 144 saves · Dec 16th
The New York Times
U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
The New York Times
6 min read · 130 saves · Dec 9th · Regulators are accusing the company of buying up rising rivals to cement its dominance over social media.
WIRED
The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case
WIRED
2 min read · 80 saves · Dec 10th · Gilad Edelman · The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.
Daring Fireball
Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
Daring Fireball
2 min read · 70 saves · Dec 18th · This whole ad reads more like an ad *for* Apple’s privacy initiatives than against.
The Cut
The New York Times
Opinion | Facebook’s Tone-Deaf Attack on Apple
The New York Times
4 min read · 50 saves · Dec 18th · Kara Swisher · The company declared in newspaper ads that it was “standing up to Apple.” It’s a desperate ploy that’s unlikely to work.
The Verge
The FTC is suing Facebook to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp
The Verge
2 min read · 50 saves · Dec 9th · Nick Statt · New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the lawsuit on Wednesday
WIRED
Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy
WIRED
2 min read · 42 saves · Dec 17th · Gilad Edelman · A new antitrust case against Google alleges that the two companies made a deal to reduce competition in online advertising.
The Verge
Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads
The Verge
2 min read · 39 saves · Dec 16th · Tom Warren · Apple’s new iOS 14 privacy changes arrive soon
