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“We’re At The Mercy Of The Algos”; More News Sites Say Facebook’s ‘Fake News’ Filter Is Killing Traffic…

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Yesterday we highlighted an article written by the Chicago Tribune’s Deputy Editor for Digital News, Kurt Gessler, which provided a fairly compelling set of facts to suggest that Facebook’s ‘fake news’ filter was suppressing the distribution of articles from media sources which undoubtedly consider themselves “legitimate new outlets” (with the definition of ‘legitimate’ left solely […]

Google Is a Monopoly–And It’s Crushing the Internet…

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Five to 10 years ago, independent bloggers used to be able to get by on internet advertising, like the broadsheets of yore. But that changed quite quickly, and for two big reasons: Facebook and Google. They now gobble up the vast majority of internet advertising dollars — about 85 percent, as my colleague Jeff Spross […]

Facebook Goes Virtual…Developing a ‘Mind Reading’ Brain Interface…

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Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled Facebook’s augmented reality system – and confirmed rumours the firm is developing a ‘mind control’ brain interface. The social network’s founder took to the stage at the firm’s annual F8 developer conference at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center to introduce what he called the ‘second act’ in Facebook’s camera strategy […]

Facebook Discovers ‘Major Spam Operation,’ USA Today Likes Plummet…

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Facebook announced Friday that the company has discovered and dismantled a network of fake accounts that have been rising on the site over the last six months. The result of that purge has caused tremendous damage to one news outlet’s Facebook page in particular — USA Today. In its statement, Facebook announced that the latest […]

Meet Babel Street, the Powerful Social Media Surveillance Used by Police, Secret Service, and Sports Stadiums…

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Newly released records from the Seattle Police Dept. illustrate the formidable capabilities of Babel Street’s software and offers a look into who is using it. After Geofeedia’s highly publicized PR disaster, in which Chicago Police were found to have used the social media surveillance platform to track racial justice protests and gatherings, the social media […]

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