Between the FAANG quintet and China’s rivaling BAT companies, gains in the world’s top technology shares are nearing a whopping $1.7 trillion in market value this year. That’s more than Canada’s entire economy, and exceeds the worth of Germany’s biggest 30 companies put together. The eight tech giants — Facebook Inc., Amazon Inc., Apple Inc., […]
Spinoff: Whatever the Reports About Russian Trolls Buying Ads Is Initially, It’s Way, Way Worse…
Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
For many years now, we’ve pointed out that whenever people — generally legacy content companies and politicians — started pushing for internet platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter to “police” content, that no matter what those platforms did, it was never going to be enough. For example, after years of resisting, Google finally caved to […]
Another Ridiculous Lawsuit Hopes to Hold Social Media Companies Responsible for Terrorist Attacks…
How Facebook’s Master Algorithm Powers the Social Network…
Instagram engineers faced a Herculean task in early 2016. Fearing that people would miss the most important posts, Instagram’s leadership asked the engineers to transform the chronological photo feed into a curated list of posts based on users’ individual preferences. Development of a similar algorithm for Facebook ’s News Feed, which determines what 2 billion […]
8 Crazy Ways Social Media Could Be Raising Your Insurance Rates…
We all love social media. The constant “Which F.R.I.E.N.D.S Character Are You Quizzes?”. The spirited debates about whether quinoa is actually worth eating. The quotes by Mother Theresa that are actually by Britney Spears. The videos of elderly people wiping out while riding scooters. It’s all good fun ….until it causes your insurance rates to […]
The Mystery of the Russia-gate Puppies by Robert Parry…
What is perhaps most unprofessional, unethical and even immoral about the U.S. mainstream media’s coverage of Russia-gate is how all the stories start with the conclusion – “Russia bad” – and then make whatever shards of information exist fit the preordained narrative. For instance, we’re told that Facebook executives, who were sent back three times […]
Warner Blasts Twitter’s Russia Presentation…
Twitter’s presentation Thursday to Senate staffers about possible Russian election interference brought a caustic reaction from top Intelligence Committee Democrat Mark Warner, who called it “deeply disappointing” and “inadequate on every level.” The Virginia senator said he was especially disappointed that much of Twitter’s findings were based on user accounts that Facebook had already flagged […]
Make Zuckerberg Testify…
Last week, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part of its revenue includes what appears to be politically motivated fraud undertaken by a shady Russian company. The social network, perhaps motivated by a Washington Post scoop on the matter…
Instagram Is the Most Harmful Social Network for Your Mental Health…
Our addictive feeds of fitness models, exotic travel, and photo-perfect moments don’t often match with our comparatively humdrum and badly lit lives. The discontent caused by that disconnect is enough that a growing body of research suggests social media is contributing to mental-health problems such as anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, and body-image issues in young […]
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