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When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people's lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all?
The company plans to tighten its grip on our everyday activities. We don’t have to just submit, says emerging technologies research fellow Jathan Sadowski
"Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests."
Facebook tried to clean up its latest scandal by releasing internal documents. Then reporters released more of them.
The company has to compete with Snapchat and TikTok.
One revenue chart explains the problem, and how to fix it.
"Hard to say" who is responsible for platform-wide safety and security.
Report blames Facebook’s prioritization of engagement over all else.
FFS FACEBOOK
Its most-viewed link in Q1 cast doubt about the COVID-19 vaccine
The company doesn’t want anyone looking under the hood
American democracy is in trouble. According to Freedom House, “the United States’ aggregate Freedom in the World score has declined by 11 points,” from 94 to 83
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – diml...
Clegg says it takes two to tango, but in reality Facebook would prefer you to follow its lead.
An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against the Stop the Steal movement ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and hoped the company could “do better next time.”
A similar audit of LinkedIn found ads were shown to women equally as often
A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform
Another day, another massive privacy scandal nobody will do much about.