Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Digital assets like NFTs give us a glimpse into a future where every aspect of human life that can be digitally recorded is collateralized and securitized
Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. Tweets: @hblodget , @ruchowdh , @mayazi , @savvylindz , @rheaplex , @moonalice , @...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
After a decade of online identities coming under increasingly centralized control, online anonymity is starting to look like a threatened privilege than a right
Reconsidering pseudonymity and what it means to “be yourself” online. — In early July, when England's soccer team lost … Tweets: @hkesvani , @moonalice , @jwherrman , @wexler , @natematias , @graceo...
Google and Facebook may continue predatory behavior for years as antitrust cases play out, which can be deterred by filing criminal charges against their execs
Matt Stoller / BIG : Tweets: @halsinger , @billyez2 , @benedictevans , @gretchenspeters , @iwelsh , @jason_kint , @moonalice , @matthewstoller , @matthewstoller , @matthewstoller , @ektrit , and @jas...
Trump's campaign is poised to replicate its 2016 success on Facebook, exploiting how FB's AI ad tools automatically distribute ad spend and target audiences
Look at a thousand of the millions of Facebook ads Donald Trump has run, and it's hard to believe that they represent a winning strategy. Tweets: @therealquags , @brianweeden , @antoniogm , @larryrose...
How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit
Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun? Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @carolinemoss , @niubi , @jamiew , @katherinemiller , ...