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The company has survived previous seemingly existential crises with little damage to its monarchical structure
Two-year audit praises some decisions but was criticises lack of action over Trump posts
Civil rights groups say company did not commit to concrete plan to address hate speech and misinformation
<p>One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg described the promising initial test flight of Aquila, a drone with a wingspan larger than […]</p>
How a series of algorithms whiffed and ended up warning Oregonians of an antifa invasion
Misinformatie: Massaal delen bezorgde burgers ongefundeerde artikelen en video’s over het coronavirus. Die komen in veel gevallen van commerciële producenten. „Facebook zorgt voor het bereik, Google voor het geld.”
Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end 'soon enough' | Technology | The Guardian
We will not change our policies or approach, says Zuckerberg as more than 500 companies protest against hate speech
The social network’s crisis has been a long time in the making and shows no sign of going away
Apple and Facebook seem like they are in conflict, but have often been each other’s best partners.
Adverteerders: Na Unilever boycotten grote merken als Levi’s en Coca-Cola ook Facebook, omdat het oogluikend racisme zou toestaan.
Their CEOs have pledged support for reform amid the George Floyd protests—while their lawyers are fighting to preserve law enforcement’s advantage in court.
Contractor Accenture has added 48 minutes to the shifts of many moderators in North America.
Automated moderation can be a blunt instrument – as users trying to post an image of Aboriginal men in chains discovered
Firm aims to double number of registered voters of previous drives and prevent ‘malicious’ interference
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad.
Facebook Workplace is used by employers as large as Walmart. The new tool would allow “content control” to prevent certain topics from trending internally.
Mark Zuckerberg has too much to lose by censoring Donald Trump
Facebook needs better moral leadership.
Activists say Facebook boss’s decision to leave ‘shooting threat’ up sets dangerous precedent
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
We’ve been skeptical of Facebook’s Oversight Board from day one. We’ll follow closely and keep open minds, because we appreciate it is a first attempt at some semblance of much-needed governance and external review. But no amount of “oversight” can fix the underlying problem: Content moderation is...
Messenger Rooms won’t “watch or listen” to your calls. But Facebook won’t say how it will handle metadata like who you chat with and when.
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
Sociale media: Voor het eerst schikt een socialemediabedrijf met de moderatoren die kwalijke berichten weren van het platform. Facebook betaalt in de VS 52 miljoen dollar.
Murder, torture, child abuse: each day we see things that keep us awake at night. Yet Mark Zuckerberg calls us ‘overdramatic’, says former Facebook moderator Chris Gray
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment”?
Former moderator suing social network in Ireland over health impact of scouring website
The “Liam Bot” teaches employees what to say if friends or family ask difficult questions about the company over the holidays.
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
to learn something new. I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin. Last year, I focused almost all my time on addressing important issues around elections, speech, privacy, and well-being. Facebook is a different company now than it was a couple of years ago because of a much greater focus on these questions. These issues are complex and we will continue focusing on them for years to come. There are so many big questions about the world we want to live in and technology's place in it. Do we want technology to keep giving more people a voice, or will traditional gatekeepers control what ideas can be expressed? Should we decentralize authority through encryption or other means to put more power in people's hands? In a world where many physical communities are weakening, what role can the internet play in strengthening our social fabric? How do we build an internet that helps people come together to address the world's biggest problems that require global-scale collaboration? How do we build technology that creates more jobs rather than just building AI to automate things people do? What form will this all take now that the smartphone is mature? And how do we keep up the pace of scientific and technological progress across fields? My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society -- the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties. Every few weeks I'll talk with leaders, experts, and people in our community from different fields and I'll try different formats to keep it interesting. These will all be public, either on my Facebook or Instagram pages or on other media. This will be intellectually interesting, but there's a personal challenge for me here too. I'm an engineer, and I used to just build out my ideas and hope they'd mostly speak for themselves. But given the importance of what we do, that doesn't cut it anymore. So I'm going to put myself out there more than I've been comfortable with and engage more in some of these debates about the future, the tradeoffs we face, and where we want to go. I'm looking forward to another year of learning and personal improvement, and to discussing a lot of important questions with all of you!
Facebook once built an internal app that let employees identify people using facial recognition and their phone cameras, Business Insider reported Friday. From the report: The app, which was developed between 2015 and 2016, utilised Facebook's vast collection of user identities to automatically reco...
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Survival — the pursuit of more time — is the most basic instinct. Procreation is a distan...
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Facebook still has a black people problem. And a problem with individual contributors who are not white.
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
In mijn nieuwsbrief: kwalijke technologiejournalistiek, Kamervragen over mijn onthulling, een nieuw boek over Uber en narcisten in de politiek.
If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name.
Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions:What exactly has Facebook changed?How many Facebook...
Our face recognition setting provides an easy on or off switch.
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
Facebook’s independent oversight board will have a final charter by August. It’s messy, but so is every constitutional convention
Tim Wu rebuts Zuck's reasons for exempting Facebook from antitrust enforcement
Topadviseur Nick Clegg reageert op schandalen en zorgen rondom het techbedrijf. "We kunnen ons boos maken over technologie of we kunnen een oplossing vinden."
Last month Facebook declined to remove a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi even after it was viewed millions of times
John de Mol eist dat Facebook reclame met zijn portret voorgoed blokkeert. Over een gelijksoortige eis kwam een belangrijke uitspraak uit Straatsburg.
Demonstrators cover bodies with stickers to ensure nipples on display are ‘male’, in line with Facebook policy
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
The social media giant is planning to set up a crypto-currency in around 12 countries by early 2020.
Facebook’s former chief security officer said Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg should be replaced as the company’s CEO, arguing that he has too much control over the social media giant.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition. According to Consumer Reports, despite Facebook rolling out a new privacy setting last year allowing use...
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
Experts worry that dark money groups and foreign actors could use the loophole to mislead users.
Former British MEP is sent stern letter accusing Facebook of ignoring how EU law works
Pulling apart the social network could keep the EU busy in court for a decade, says Margrethe Vestager.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No.
Overal ter wereld maken overheden ad hoc regels om de verspreiding van haat en desinformatie tegen te gaan. Die wetgeving zal niet slagen zolang bedrijven als Facebook en YouTube hun luiken gesloten houden en hun verantwoordelijkheid kunnen blijven afschuiven.
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
Wie Facebook zegt, zegt: schandalen. Je zou verwachten dat de aandeelhouders van Facebook het bedrijf afstraffen voor alle misleiding, privacyschending en ander wangedrag. Maar doen ze dat ook? Om daar achter te komen, onderzochten we de invloed van de schandalen op de aandelenkoers van Facebook.