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Mark Zuckerberg's promise to develop new AI tools to proactively address Facebook’s content problem allows the social network to abdicate responsibility for problems on its platform, and at scale.
For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.
An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.
Developers and designers need to initiate a conversation about the ethics of web design, i.e. how do we define and measure goodness and rightness in the digital realm? It's important to discuss responsibilities, decisions, and consequences.
Facebook suffers a privacy violation and questions moral compasses.
Facebook's failure to moderate enables genocide.
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies.
A lot of good stuff in here on how theories of change faaaaaaaaaail.
"You should make it so people can search for and jump into hundreds of conversations at once if they want." "Ooh, good idea! I imagine only the most well-informed people with the most critical information to share will use that feature."
Virtue ethics v. consequentialism.
Facebook has been updating its privacy settings for more than a decade. Will this time be different?
On March 17, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that software company Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from 50 million Facebook users to serve advertisements for the Trump campaign. Facebook said that the social media site was not hacked.…
Step 1: Sign up for Facebook.
You give Facebook all of your data in exchange for using their service—an exchange that seems increasingly out of whack.
It was no secret that Cambridge Analytica was manipulating people with big data. But it took a former employee’s reckoning to provoke outrage.
“To fall prey to another person you have to fall prey to your belief that you’re a good judge of character."
Our revelations about the harvesting of users’ data show that Mark Zuckerberg’s all-powerful company has little sense of responsibility
Privacy issues and ultra-concentrated markets could stem from companies collecting our data, according to this computer scientist.
Our tech columnist tried to skip digital news for a while. His old-school experiment led to three main conclusions.