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Like Uber, Facebook is having trouble attracting talent because it's a shitpit.
Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users. At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic […]
Just six percent of bots on Twitter accounted for 31 percent of bad information.
Instagram's promise to root out "inauthentic activity" sends some social media marketers into crisis.
The platform has been used to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and promote hate. Regular users should ask if they are implicated in these failings.
From Facebook’s earliest days, Zuckerberg has followed the same pattern: take two steps forward, only to be pushed one step backward and land exactly where he wanted to be.
The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity
Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he would combat the spread of conspiracy theories—while his company was doing the opposite.
The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
Black Twitter has grown into a vibrant digital community shaping political and cultural discourse. Does that place exist for Latinxs?
Could be interesting to ask students what they think about this.
(2020). Don’t read the comments: the effects of abusive comments on perceptions of women authors’ credibility. Information, Communication & Society: Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 947-962.
Employees at Google and elsewhere are protesting their bosses’ business decisions. Will that evolve into a more sustained labor movement?
Despite efforts against hateful and false content, those posts and videos are thriving. One Instagram search produced nearly 12,000 posts with the hashtag “#jewsdid911.”
About 60 percent of Twitter activity related to the caravan late last week was driven by bots, according to a new tool aimed at news organizations.