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The Most-Popular Publishers On Facebook Make For A Revealing List

The firm’s most recent rankings, published in September, showed that the top publisher on Facebook in August 2018 was not CNN, Fox News, the BBC, or BuzzFeed—but a Manchester, U.K.–based site called LADbible. Fourth was one called Unilad, also based in Manchester. Fifth, London-based tabloid the Daily Mail. Trusted sources, indeed. The New York Times’ John … Continue reading “The Most-Popular Publishers On Facebook Make For A Revealing List”

Facebook Changed The Way Articles Are Written. Now Articles Are Changing Back, Thank God

“Facebook’s rising dominance as a referrer led to … content that was optimized for social media. … The problem with social-optimized content is that its overt, eerie familiarity drapes a kind of lowest-common-denominator cynicism across the internet … [and favors] exaggeration over subtlety. … SEO content, on the other hand, dispenses with the emotional in … Continue reading “Facebook Changed The Way Articles Are Written. Now Articles Are Changing Back, Thank God”

Facebook Removes Icelandic Artist’s Work Because… Naked Breasts

As part of the Reykjavik arts festival in June, Indridadóttir showed photographs of topless young women standing in front of painted portraits of older men. The photographs were taken in locations such as the Icelandic parliament, a sports club and a school, where rooms are decorated with portraits of men that had been playing an … Continue reading “Facebook Removes Icelandic Artist’s Work Because… Naked Breasts”

Facebook Scammers Target Edinburgh Fringe Performers

A member of the company told The Stage she was contacted by a woman through an Edinburgh Facebook group, who said she had two rooms available at £400 each and a friend had a further three rooms. The theatre company paid the money and a deposit up front. After this, they received a message from … Continue reading “Facebook Scammers Target Edinburgh Fringe Performers”

Here’s One Path Forward For Facebook: Look At Reddit

Reddit’s AskHistorians subreddit – one of the largest history forums on the internet – doesn’t bother debating Holocaust deniers. Instead, it bans them, and one moderator says Facebook should, too, because “deniers need a public forum to spread their lies and to sow doubt among readers not well-informed about history. By convincing people that they … Continue reading “Here’s One Path Forward For Facebook: Look At Reddit”

Are We Really Facebook’s Product?

Behind the aphorism’s sudden ubiquity lies a long and surprising history—one that yields a fresh perspective on our present technocultural moment. It suggests that Facebook’s business model is neither as novel as it might seem, nor as deterministic of its values as critics assume. The pithiness that makes “you are the product” so quotable risks … Continue reading “Are We Really Facebook’s Product?”

Facebook Wants To Make Its User Data Available To Social Scientists. Should It?

In partnership with the non-profit Social Science Research Council, Facebook’s social-science program will put out a call for university scientists to apply for grants to study the effects of social media on democracies and elections, potentially using proprietary Facebook data. The money will come from various foundations known to give to Democrats, Republicans, and journalists.

Facebook Will “Never Be The Same” After The Analytica Scandal

“To some cynical journalists or techno-skeptics, this maneuvering might seem like Facebook just being Facebook—that the Cambridge scandal is merely the latest in a litany of privacy intrusions; that Facebook’s de facto response is, as Dance noted, disingenuous. But this scandal really is different, and everyone in Silicon Valley knows it. Since the story broke … Continue reading “Facebook Will “Never Be The Same” After The Analytica Scandal”

Court Gives Verdict In Suit Against Facebook For Censoring Courbet’s ‘Origin Of The World’

“French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas … says the social media giant closed his account in 2011 because he posted L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866), [the history-making] explicit full-frontal female nude.” The French judge did rule that French users could sue Facebook in France rather than California, but was less than sympathetic to … Continue reading “Court Gives Verdict In Suit Against Facebook For Censoring Courbet’s ‘Origin Of The World’”