Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
November 7, 2019
Taken together, they show how Zuckerberg, along with his board and management team, found ways to tap Facebook users’ data — including information about friends, relationships and photos — as leverage over the companies it partnered with. In some cases, Facebook would reward partners by giving them preferential access to certain types of user data while denying the same access to rival companies.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/all/leaked-documents-show-facebook-leveraged-user-data-fight-rivals-help-n1076986
Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban | TheHill
November 2, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday ardently defended Facebook’s controversial political advertising policy a little more than an hour after Twitter took a shot at its rival while announcing it will ban all political ads
— Read on thehill.com/policy/technology/468216-zuckerberg-doubles-down-on-facebook-political-ads-policy-after-twitter-ban
Twitter to ban all political advertising – BBC News
October 30, 2019
“While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics,” company CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50243306
Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules
October 29, 2019
This kind of “inauthentic coordinated behavior” violates Facebook’s rules. Facebook has taken down smaller and less coordinated networks that promoted liberal content. But Facebook told Popular Information that it will continue to allow this network to operate and amplify The Daily Wire’s content.
— Read on popular.info/p/facebook-allows-prominent-right-wing
Tim Cook Interview with People en Espanol | People en Español
October 26, 2019
I remember when I read your column, one of the sentences that most surprised me was: “I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Yes, I strongly believe that. I think there’s many meanings behind this. One is, it was his decision, not mine. Two, at least for me, I can only speak for myself, it gives me a level of empathy that I think is probably much higher than average because being gay or trans, you’re a minority. And I think when you’re a majority, even though intellectually you can understand what it means to be in a minority, it’s an intellectual thing. It’s not intellectual for me to be in a minority. I’m not saying that I understand the trials and tribulations of every minority group, because I don’t. But I do understand for one of the groups. And to the degree that it helps give you a lens on how other people may feel, I think that’s a gift in and of itself.
— Read on peopleenespanol.com/chica/tim-cook-the-power-of-diversity/
Zuck Testified Before the House Financial Services Committee and It Did Not Go Well for Him — Pixel Envy
October 25, 2019
REP. OCASIO-CORTEZ: Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal? I mean, if you’re not fact-checking political advertisements — I’m just trying to understand the bounds here. What’s fair game?
ZUCKERBERG: Congresswoman, I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.
— Read on pxlnv.com/linklog/zuck-testifies-again/
Getting Tough on the Corporate Snoopers | Irreal
October 22, 2019
Getting Tough on the Corporate Snoopers | Irreal
— Read on irreal.org/blog/
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Imagine if Facebook were prohibited from collecting its users’ information without their permission and that Zuckerberg could go to jail for ignoring the ban.
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Social media in 2019
October 16, 2019
I’ve been working on building the tooling around a friendly, widely available WordPress/Tumblr workflow to get away from Facebook… And the thing I’ve found is that outside of macOS, blogging apparently sucks.
Windows doesn’t seem to have a single client on-par with the long-developed and truly amazing MarsEdit, paid or otherwise… And what seems to be the best, or at least most well regarded, native client hasn’t seen consistent development or updates in years. The Mac I use daily is a work computer, so I would like to make sure I have backup processes in place to keep shares flowing if I don’t have a macOS machine available.
