Facebook and Twitter bots are starting to influence our politics, a new study warns. Are tech companies lazy, incompetent, or greedy? Facebook’s war against fake news isn’t working. Mark Zuckerberg’s fake news problem isn’t going away. Facebook is broken: The problem is this — Facebook has become a feedback loop which can and does, despite its best intentions, become a vicious spiral. Brian Stelter on why it’s so hard to trust Facebook. Facebook’s harm is taking life out of context: Tyler Cowen on what once seemed like a social problem is becoming a civic one as well. Facebook faces a new world as officials rein in a wild web.
Asha Rangappa on how Facebook changed the spy game. Election interference is what Facebook is built for. Facebook wins, democracy loses: Healthy democracies have transparency in political advertising — that doesn’t matter to Facebook. Are we missing a big part of the Facebook story? Meet Ann M. Ravel, the woman who warned about Russian election meddling years ago — and got death threats. What the Facebook search warrant means for Mueller’s Russia probe. Facebook hands over data to Congress and promises better disclosure on political ads.
