In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
what we don't hear nearly enough—how terrible university surveillance regimes are for students and the university community. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Some colleges are trying to...
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: ...
Facebook says it will limit message forwarding on Messenger to five people or groups at a time to tackle the spread of misinformation
and they need to do more than make small, performative tweaks. https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Reynolds / @tomhreynolds : @MikeIsaac Here is one of the new labels we are rolling out, per our announcem...
The debate over Facebook's political ads policy has been too US-centric and the company hasn't explained how that policy will work in other countries
When Facebook wrote to Joe Biden's campaign to say it would not back down from its decision to exempt politicians from its ban … Tweets: @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @lmanwaring , @...
Kinsa, a smart thermometer startup that raised ~$29M via VCs like Kleiner Perkins, has products in 500K+ US homes and sells “illness data” to Clorox and others
Most of what we do — the websites we visit, the places we go, the TV shows we watch, the products we buy — has become fair game for advertisers. Tweets: @fmanjoo , @nytimestech , @rebeccadrobbins , @z...
Profile of Kris Goldsmith, an Army veteran who catalogues questionable Facebook Pages, some with millions of followers and links to Russia and Iran
Kris Goldsmith has become the cybersleuth for the Vietnam Veterans of America, hunting fake Facebook pages that sow discord and often have roots overseas Tweets: @dnvolz , @carter_pe , @mattyglesias ,...
More worrisome than foreign interference in US elections is how tech companies feed and profit from deepening domestic political polarization
More worrisome than foreign interference in our elections is how our own tech and media companies feed and profit from our deepening domestic political polarization. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets:...
How digital technologies and social media went from being hailed as tools of freedom during the Arab Spring to being blamed for upheavals in Western democracies
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves. Tweets: @zeynep , @carnage4life ,...
How Facebook became synonymous with the internet in a newly democratic Myanmar and ended up relying on civil society groups for help in policing rumors
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … Tweets: @tmclaughlin3 , @nxthompson , @rama_rajeswari , @joinson , @tmclaughlin3 ...
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos
Was a Key Factor Missed in the Study of Viral Lies? Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC : How YouTube search pushes people toward conspiracy theories and extreme content Nick Douglas / Lifehacker : How to Hide You...