Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
The social network is too big and broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more problems
By Matt Taibbi
August 2, 2018
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French protests spark media demands for Facebook censorship
By Andre Damon
5 December 2018
Over the past three weeks, hundreds of thousands of people have participated in “yellow vest” demonstrations in France against social...
Secretive crackdown on fake profiles shows Israel wide open to election...
On eve of local vote, national cyber unit, part of Netanyahu’s office, reveals it has asked Facebook to close thousands of accounts used to...
The joy and horror of targeted Facebook ads
Why targeted ads are the most brutal owns
Examining the highly 2010s phenomenon of getting owned by the algorithm.
By Rebecca Jennings
Sep. 25,...
Made and Distributed in the U.S.A.: Online Disinformation
By Sheera Frenkel
Oct. 11, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — When Christine Blasey Ford testified before Congress last month about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault,...
The Digital Dark Age is Here
By Nathan McDonald
August 9, 2018
For years I have warned about this, for years I have stated that these companies are not to be trusted,...
Facebook and Totalitarianism
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners
By Alan MacLeod
September 25, 2018
Media giant Facebook recently announced (Reuters, 9/19/18) it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda...
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users
By Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel
Sept. 28, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already facing scrutiny over how it handles the private information of its users,...
Generation being born now is the last to be free –...
20 Sep, 2018
Before his links to the world was cut by his Ecuadorian hosts, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on how technological...
A Four Person NATO-Funded Team Advises Facebook On Flagging “Propaganda”
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 08/07/2018
This is not at all comforting: during a week that's witnessed Alex Jones' social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple,...