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05 May 19
Javier PastorEl reportaje es de febrero y es brutal pero largo de narices. Para leer apaciblemente, que tiene mucho menene.https://t.co/Ju8oIPZKzz
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10 Dec 18
Nils MüllerLesen! Vielleicht der beste #facebook Hintergrund, der jemals geschrieben wurde: INSIDE THE TWO YEARS THAT SHOOK FACEBOOK—AND THE WORLD https://t.co/QV7VmBSdnG https://t.co/3z0J53GiWZ
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camfella62One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook—and World atoberead facebook
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28 Jul 18
Lun EsexCaving to bad-faith* bias allegations is a big theme of 2016. It's a part of why James Comey acted how he did. It's why Hillary Clinton's email servers got so much press coverage. "Neutral" institutions go out of their way to signal they aren't biased aga
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Matt BinderCaving to bad-faith* bias allegations is a big theme of 2016. It's a part of why James Comey acted how he did. It's why Hillary Clinton's email servers got so much press coverage. "Neutral" institutions go out of their way to signal they aren't biased aga
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18 Jul 18
Jorge BarbaA periodic reminder that the political shitstorm at Facebook started with an overreaction to placate Republicans complaining about bias that didn’t exist. https://t.co/urlSDlmD4J
Apropos of nothing, I hope Twitter leadership has read this story about how caving to bad-faith bias allegations set in motion a two-year chain of misery and distraction at Facebook. https://t.co/zwUGAhrshP -
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According to a Facebook employee involved in planning the meeting, part of the goal was to bring in a group of conservatives who were certain to fight with one another. They made sure to have libertarians who wouldn’t want to regulate the platform and partisans who would. Another goal, according to the employee, was to make sure the attendees were “bored to death” by a technical presentation after Zuckerberg and Sandberg had addressed the group.
The power went out, and the room got uncomfortably hot. But otherwise the meeting went according to plan. The guests did indeed fight, and they failed to unify in a way that was either threatening or coherent. Some wanted the company to set hiring quotas for conservative employees; others thought that idea was nuts. As often happens when outsiders meet with Facebook, people used the time to try to figure out how they could get more followers for their own pages.
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The most important consequence of the Trending Topics controversy, according to nearly a dozen former and current employees, was that Facebook became wary of doing anything that might look like stifling conservative news. It had burned its fingers once and didn’t want to do it again. And so a summer of deeply partisan rancor and calumny began with Facebook eager to stay out of the fray.
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Back in 2012, the most exciting social network for distributing news online wasn’t Facebook, it was Twitter. The latter’s 140-character posts accelerated the speed at which news could spread, allowing its influence in the news industry to grow much faster than Facebook’s. “Twitter was this massive, massive threat,” says a former Facebook executive heavily involved in the decisionmaking at the time.
So Zuckerberg pursued a strategy he has often deployed against competitors he cannot buy: He copied, then crushed. He adjusted Facebook’s News Feed to fully incorporate news (despite its name, the feed was originally tilted toward personal news) and adjusted the product so that it showed author bylines and headlines. Then Facebook’s emissaries fanned out to talk with journalists and explain how to best reach readers through the platform.
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Facebook hired few journalists and spent little time discussing the big questions that bedevil the media industry. What is fair? What is a fact? How do you signal the difference between news, analysis, satire, and opinion? Facebook has long seemed to think it has immunity from those debates because it is just a technology company—one that has built a “platform for all ideas.”
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if anyone inside Facebook is unconvinced by religion, there is also Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act to recommend the idea
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Facebook tried never to favor one kind of news content over another. But neutrality is a choice in itself
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“Without hesitation, with clarity and boldness, Mark said there is only one Facebook and one path forward: ‘We are an open platform.’”
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“We traced the creation of the Facebook accounts to IP addresses at the Apple store a block away from the MySpace offices in Santa Monica,” the executive says. “Facebook then traced interactions with those accounts to News Corp lawyers
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While Facebook grappled internally with what it was becoming—a company that dominated media but didn’t want to be a media company—Donald Trump’s presidential campaign staff faced no such confusion. To them Facebook’s use was obvious. Twitter was a tool for communicating directly with supporters and yelling at the media. Facebook was the way to run the most effective direct-marketing political operation in history.
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Zuckerberg declined to be interviewed for this article, but people who know him well say he likes to form his opinions from data. And in this case he wasn’t without it. Before the interview, his staff had worked up a back-of-the-envelope calculation showing that fake news was a tiny percentage of the total amount of election-related content on the platform.
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One of the many things Zuckerberg seemed not to grasp when he wrote his manifesto was that his platform had empowered an enemy far more sophisticated than Macedonian teenagers and assorted low-rent purveyors of bull.
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For the past year, Facebook has been developing algorithms to hammer publishers whose content is fake; now it’s trying to elevate what’s good. For starters, he explained, the company would use reader surveys to determine which sources are trustworthy. That system, critics were quick to point out, will surely be gamed, and many people will say they trust sources just because they recognize them. But this announcement, at least, went over a little better in boardrooms and newsrooms. Right after the post went up, the stock price of The New York Times shot up—as did that of News Corp.
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When social media started becoming driven by images, he bought Instagram. When messaging took off, he bought WhatsApp. When Snapchat became a threat, he copied it. Now, with all his talk of “time well spent,” it seems as if he’s trying to co-opt Tristan Harris too.
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16 Feb 18
Kirti VasheeGreat in-depth text about Facebook's slow reckoning with reality: https://t.co/rHrzmX1g86
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15 Feb 18
Yee Sian NgOne day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
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Mela EckenfelsFacebook, "from incompetence to malice" https://t.co/sgr7rinUeo Die mittlerweile sich allzu oft wiederholende Gesc… https://t.co/DwX2wrXJ3S
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14 Feb 18
Клуб ГУД: База статей по парламентским дебатамОчень подробная статья, разбивающая цепочку событий от обвинений платформы в предвзятости к ложным новостям, российскому вмешательству и негативным последствиям в странах третьего мира.
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Lorena O'EnglishIf you're a Facebook user, this @Wired story is worth your time: https://t.co/gcNgfxbtlG
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13 Feb 18
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Jelmer EversInside the Two Years that Shook Facebook - and the World https://t.co/AZajwduZV7 via @WIRED @nxthompson @fvogelstein
Must read: Wired sprak met meer dan 50 Facebook medewerkers over algoritmes, fakenews, Russische trollen etc https://t.co/5R1i1ooSub
A periodic reminder that one reasons Russia was able to manipulate our election was because FB was so scared of accusations that they unfairly censor the right. Which helps explain current shouting that they unfairly censor the right. https://t.co/urlSDlm -
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The furious energy of this big bang emanated, in large part, from a brilliant and simple insight. Humans are social animals. But the internet is a cesspool. That scares people away from identifying themselves and putting personal details online. Solve that problem—make people feel safe to post—and they will share obsessively. Make the resulting database of privately shared information and personal connections available to advertisers, and that platform will become one of the most important media technologies of the early 21st century.
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Wessel van RensburgA long, important read. Especially if you worry about social media and democracy https://t.co/W0LVNUr39E
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Jordan GoldmanOne day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
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Ryan JohnsonOne day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
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educationfairbdOne day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
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Md. Nazrul IslamOne day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged …
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12 Feb 18
Francois GuiteHow a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Katy HowellThis @WIRED cover. Woah. Big story dropping today from @nxthompson & Co.: https://t.co/1BDVQTHOX2?amp=1 https://t.co/0P6kOcFYok
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Heinz WittenbrinkLesen! Vielleicht der beste #facebook Hintergrund, der jemals geschrieben wurde: INSIDE THE TWO YEARS THAT SHOOK FACEBOOK—AND THE WORLD https://t.co/QV7VmBSdnG pic.twitter.com/3z0J53GiWZ
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