It’s been over six weeks since I got good and fed up. Facebook has been a garbage company for most of its 15 years; while I’m prone to an “overboard gripe” (phrase provided by a former editor), this increasingly feels less a position than a statement of fact. Many more principled friends had left... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former New York Times editor skewers everyone in her new book, but ‘there isn’t one business model that’s going to save journalism’, she saysMerchants of Truth, the new book by the former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, is a deep dive into multiple crises that have bedeviled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
You say you care about privacy, but you don’t really, and neither do millions of other Americans. This collective indifference is what keeps Big Data in business and keeps consumers constantly scrambling to find out who has access to their personal information. Worse, privacy experts tell me that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifteen years ago, the social network site was set up to connect people. But now, with lives increasingly played out online, have we forgotten how to be alone?‘Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges. We have opened up Thefacebook for popular... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Program that enrolled users as young as 13 prompts Apple to ban Facebook from publishing some appsFacebook paid users as young as 13 to install an app that gave the company access to everything their phone sent or received over the internet. In response, Apple has revoked Facebook’s ability to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc. has faced congressional panels, government fines and mounting public pressure over its use and handling of private user data. On Wednesday, after a report said the company had been paying people — some as young as 13 — $20 a month to install a research app on their phones that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-01-30 23:35:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc. has faced congressional panels, government fines and mounting public pressure over its use and handling of private user data. On Wednesday, after a report said the company had been paying people — some as young as 13 — $20 a month to install a research app on their phones that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-01-30 23:35:00 UTC ]
For years, Facebook has been paying some users $20 per month to install a research app on their phones that can collect intimate information about their online behavior and communications, according to a report published Tuesday by TechCrunch. Since 2016, users ages 13 to 35 could exchange their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Zuckerberg talked about creating an independent body that would oversee Facebook's content decisions, and now that plan is taking shape. The social site has published a draft charter for an oversight board that would handle appeals for content... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Facebook CEO is trying to clear up some misperceptions about the social network’s business model as data regulation looms on the horizon. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal late Thursday to explain his company’s business model and address some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
A bit of futurism, some experimental sound and images that fuse art history and pop culture — here are six exhibitions and events in the coming week: Beatriz Cortez, “Trinidad / Joy Station,” at the Craft Contemporary. At a moment of political dystopia, the L.A. artist imagines a bit of utopia:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Political ads featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom are popping up on Facebook in Ohio, Florida and other swing states in the 2020 presidential election, stirring speculation about whether the Democrat is testing the waters for a potential White House run. Newsom, who was sworn into office less... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
"We generated revenue from brands. If content was so important, you’d think we would be trying harder to please publishers." The post ‘Publishers were always a second priority’: Confessions of a former Facebook exec on the platform’s struggles with video appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
This is just the last announcement in its crackdown on “inauthentic” behavior. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher published a blog post this morning saying the company has discovered and removed hundreds of pages and accounts it deemed to be “inauthentic.” The pages came... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook announced over $30 million in grants to organizations trying to help local news publishers. The post Facebook is funding more programs catering to local news publishers appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2019-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Once a ghost town, Facebook Stories has gotten increasingly more attractive to publishers. The post ‘Efficient’: Publishers are recycling their Instagram efforts for Facebook Stories appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2019-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social network brings in independent charity in attempt to tackle misinformationFacebook’s fact-checking operation is launching in the UK, with the independent charity Full Fact selected to be the first British publisher to review and rate the accuracy of content on the social network.Posts,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Researchers suggest over-65s may lack skills to determine veracity of online newsOlder people are almost four times more likely to have shared fake news on Facebook than the younger generation, according to research published in the journal Science.On average, American Facebook users over 65... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite employing a small army of contractors to monitor posts, it’s clear the company is no longer fit for purposeWay back in the 1950s, a pioneering British cybernetician, W Ross Ashby, proposed a fundamental law of dynamic systems. In his book An Introduction to Cybernetics, he formulated his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is the dawn of 2019, and the week’s exhibitions offer an opportunity to revel in the mythological or unload your sins. From painting to K-pop to the female body rendered as doll, here are nine exhibitions and events to check out in the coming week. Trenton Doyle Hancock, “An Ingenue’s Hues and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]