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Meta’s VR social network Horizon is too buggy and employees are barely using it
‘We are working on a product that has not found product market fit,” says an exec in a leaked memo.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet
Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.
Facebook looks ready to divorce the news industry, and I doubt couples counseling will help
Out of every 1,000 times someone sees a post on Facebook, how many of them include a link to a news site? Four. No wonder Facebook doesn't want to write publishers big checks anymore.
The lesson Facebook won't learn
In a reckless, secret campaign against TikTok, the company's paranoia leads to another self-inflicted wound
Ireland fines Meta for bad record-keeping
The decision was announced by the IDPC on Tuesday
How Apple helped create Facebook’s $250 billion ad crisis
Apple made your phone more private — and created a huge problem for Mark Zuckerberg.
New algorithm bill could force Facebook to change how the news feed works
Klobuchar is spearheading the bipartisan bill.
Oversight Board tells Meta to crack down on Facebook address doxxing
You can still share your own address, though.
It Doesn't Make Sense to Treat Facebook Like a Public Utility
It's an American solution to a global problem.
How political advertisers get away with skirting Facebook’s rules
A new study shows that the vast majority of the time Facebook has made an enforcement decision on a political ad after it ran, it’s made the wrong call.
Facebook finally has live chat support for people who are locked out of their accounts
Instead of submitting a form and waiting to hear back
We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
Facebook Doc Stories - Google Docs
Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures Forbes:...
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic - Vox Conversations
Sean Illing talks with Joe Bernstein of BuzzFeed News about online disinformation and what — if anything — can be done about it. They discuss the role of tech giants in the spread of propaganda, why it's been impossible for researchers to agree on what disinformation even is, and how the nature of both mass media and democracy means that disinformation is here to stay. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews Writer, Vox Guest: Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein), Senior Reporter, BuzzFeed News References: "Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation" by Joseph Bernstein (Harper's; Sept. 2021) "Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration" by Jack Bratich (Communication, Culture & Critique 13 (3); Sept. 2020) "The Priest in Politics: Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Presidential Election of 1936" by Philip A. Grant Jr. (Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101 (1); 1990) "Lying in Politics: Reflections on The Pentagon Papers" b
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Facebook Doc Stories
This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project.
Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories
The Facebook Files
Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.