YouTube’s algorithm is under fire for boosting a sexist conspiracy theory about black-hole researcher Katie Bouman
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-criticized-for-conspiracy-video-black-hole-katie-bouman-2019-4
Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
Through a new feature, Twitter may at times end up amplifying inflammatory political rhetoric, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and flat out lies to its users.
If Facebook?s endless privacy scandals have shown one thing, it?s that the company has far too much data on its users, and that they can?t be trusted not to sell, barter, or abuse that data whether?
A new report from Edison Research finds Facebook?s American user-base contracted for the second consecutive year in 2018, shrinking by 15,000,000, and that the biggest declines have come from?
Mark Zuckerberg’s 3,000 word blog post about his plan to create a parallel set of Facebook services that contain long-overdue privacy protections has plenty to please both the regulators who are increasingly ready to fine the company billions and possibly even break it up, but also privacy advocates who will rightly cheer the announcement that the service will be increasing its end-to-end encryption offerings, only storing data in countries with good track records on human rights and the rule of law, and allowing users to mark some of their conversations as ephemeral, designed to be permanently deleted after a short while
Zuckerberg’s promises contain one important omission, as Wired’s Issie Lapowsky and Nicholas Thompson point out: Zuck does not mention his company’s future plans for data sharing and ad-targeting, two of the company’s most controversial and potentially compromising activities.
An 18-year-old from Ohio who famously inoculated himself, against his mother’s wishes, in December says he attributes his mother’s anti-vaccine ideology to a single source: Facebook.
Last September, Facebook drew fire for abusing the phone numbers users provided for two-factor authentication messages, sending spam advertising messages over the same channel — now, rather than reforming its ways, Facebook has doubled down on poisoning the security well, by adding a no-opt-out policy of allowing anyone in the world to search for you by phone number
The Antisocial NetworkFacebook claims to bring people closer together. In fact, it’s helping derail and destroy some of the few remaining places that actually do. https://logicmag.io/06-the-antisocial-network/………………………….
A reflection on my month without Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, plus a how-to guide if you want to quit the biggest companies in tech.
If it were a country, MySpace would be the seventh biggest, ahead of Russia and Bangladesh, though not all users are active. It had 153,339,321 users when I started writing this article and 153,523,640 when I had finished. What does this growth bode for the future? For the first time a like-minded media generation will grow up interacting instantaneously: globalisation personified.
A year of staggering revelations is a reminder of how much Facebook has corrupted life online, with the effect of making the internet seem a little less bearable and a little less human
For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there’s no way to disable that. pic.twitter.com/zpYhuwADMS
Last December, human rights advocates and Google employees cheered when they learned that internal dissent at Google had killed the company?s secret plan to launch a search tool in China that?
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