The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...
The EU's DSA forces Meta, Google, and other large online platforms to make their algorithms transparent to users, handle misinformation during crises, and more
The Digital Services Act will re-shape the online world — The EU has agreed on another ambitious piece of legislation to police the online world.
Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages
some that you can trace to a body count. Great, if enraging, follow-the-money reporting here. https://twitter.com/... Ian Sherr / @iansherr : Still happening how many years after a...
Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups
In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother …
Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response
Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …
Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly
Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that the Wall Street Journal published … Source: Senate Commerce Committee .
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and depende...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
- Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars. Source: Apple Podcasts .
Internal docs: Facebook's own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but it has taken few remedial steps
Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public
Internal Facebook documents detail XCheck, a program that shields VIP users from normal content enforcement policies, which included over 5.8M users in 2020
Sources: Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users
Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else — Facebook plans to end its controversial policy that mostly shields politicians …
How Facebook's stance that it won't ban posts unless they “cause imminent harm”, reversed in Feb. 2021, has led people to believe dangerous lies about COVID-19
Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make his social network a reliable source about the pandemic. Tweets: @bw , @chafkin , @karenkornbluh , @ryanmarino , @dcodedemocracy , @bw , @center4inqu...
How Facebook's stance that it won't ban posts unless they “cause imminent harm”, reversed in Feb. 2021, has led people to believe dangerous lies about COVID-19
Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make his social network a reliable source about the pandemic. Tweets: @bw , @chafkin , @karenkornbluh , @ryanmarino , @dcodedemocracy , @bw , @center4inqu...
While Facebook claims its size helps it defend the US against Chinese companies like TikTok, history shows TikTok succeeded partly due to FB's corporate goals
more than a billion dollars—that between 15 percent and 22 percent of all ads shown through Facebook on iOS during [the spring and summer of 2018] were TikTok ads.” https://promark...
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process
- Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
Twitter acknowledges that its new guidance on political and cause-based ads is essentially a rough policy outline with lots of details still to be worked out
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images