“I’m not familiar with that”: The five most dishonest answers Mark Zuckerberg gave to Congress. Why dictators love Facebook: The social media network lives according to double standards. Facebook doesn’t need to listen through your microphone to serve you creepy ads. Facebook uses artificial intelligence to predict your future actions for advertisers, says confidential document. We may own our data, but Facebook has a duty to protect it. Why Facebook’s data scandal has not become a wider crisis: Zuckerberg grilling shows it is hard to spell out specific harms of data collection. Brian Feldman on how Facebook is too big to explain.
Kate Losse: “I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter. ‘Companies over countries’ was his early motto”. Democracy vs. the algorithm: As it turns out, self-government and social connection are not the same thing. Facebook hides behind Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook’s motto to connect the world is failing, and Zuckerberg isn’t helping. Unexpected consequences: If the law is an ass, what does that make Mark Zuckerberg? How Russian Facebook ads divided and targeted US voters before the 2016 election. Your Facebook friends could be leaving you vulnerable to major privacy invasions.
What comes after the social media empires: The intense political battles over Facebook and the other giant social media companies mark the end of the empire-building phase of those companies’ history. Facebook is creepy — and valuable: To protect the public without overreacting, the issue for legislators and regulators to weigh is how much the data-driven ecosystem is worth to us. We don’t have elections: How tech companies merge with the nation-state.
