Related sites & thought leaders
More in Social Media
The Guardian
‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower
The Guardian
20+ min read · 527 saves · From 2018 · Christopher Wylie attracted worldwide media attention when he outed himself as the brainchild behind “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool” that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election. Wylie is facing significant legal risks by going public – yet doing so has become a matter of conscience for?him. Carole Cadwalladr is a features writer for the British newspaper The Observer. Her article is an in-depth profile of the data scientist and his stint at Cambridge Analytica. getAbstract believes her piece is a must-read for Facebook users and everybody following the twists and turns of the post-2016 election fallout in the United States.
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.
medium.com
The New York Times
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
The New York Times
20+ min read · 483 saves · From 2018 · Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.
VICE
Facebook Threatens to Pull Out of Europe If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
VICE
2 min read · 468 saves · Sep 21st · European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Guardian Tech
Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots
Guardian Tech
4 min read · 461 saves · Feb 21st · Oliver Milman · Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’
The Guardian
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
The Guardian
5 min read · 457 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
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · 449 saves · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
WIRED
3 min read · 403 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.
Washington Monthly
How to fix Facebook—before it fixes us
Washington Monthly
20+ min read · 388 saves · From 2018 · Brexit and the 2016 surprise victory of US president Donald Trump alarmed Roger McNamee, a technology investor and early mentor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. McNamee noticed how organized political operatives were exploiting the Facebook platform to spread negative?attention grabbing content, influence voters?and affect?voting outcomes. For McNamee, the platform’s flawed business model, its monopolistic market position and the lack of government regulation?have?turned the formerly? innocent social networking site into a threat to democracy. He shares his concerns and suggests remedies in an in-depth piece in the Washington Monthly, which getAbstract recommends to policy makers and citizen activists.
Times Open
How to Dox Yourself on the Internet
Times Open
6 min read · 373 saves · Feb 27th · A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.
Eugene Wei
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Eugene Wei
372 saves · 2019-02-27 · Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break…
Related topics
