From 1b93f84a5ac2b9a0f99006ed4065f4ba3066d695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: devenblake
+ Follow the money (Free Thought Blogs; Myers, PZ) (Archive link) +
+See also Follow the money's source How Money Flows From Amazon to Racist Troll Haven 8chan (Archive link).
Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition (The Verge; Hollister, Sean) (Archive link)
@@ -189,111 +193,135 @@ Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) (Facebook-As Facebook blocks the names of trans users and drag queens, this burlesque performer is fighting back (The Guardian; Levin, Sam) (Archive link) -
--Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged (The Guardian; Tynan, Dan) (Archive link) -
--Facebook's Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study Suggests (The Intercept; Biddle, Sam) (Archive link) -
--Facebook allowed violent posts by man charged with Ilhan Omar death threat (The Guardian; Swaine, Jon) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Apparently Won't Let Users Talk About Facebook's Lawsuit With Power.com (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition To The US (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Censored and Deleted March Against Monsanto Event (March Against Monsanto; Derricks, Kelly) (Archive link) -
--Facebook censors political satire after complaint from JobCentre Plus (Pride's Purge; Pride, Tom) (Archive link) -
--Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements (The Guardian; Wong, Julia) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Has Added You As An Informant (OWNI.eu; Vatteble, Maxime) (Archive link) -
--Facebook is chipping away at privacy - and my profile has been exposed (The Guardian; Hern, Alex) (Archive link) -
--Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed (The Next Web; Mihov, Dimitar) -
--Facebook is using your phone's location to suggest new friends - which could be a privacy disaster (Splinter; Hill, Kashmir) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Overreacts: Decides All Of The Pirate Bay Is Illegal (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like "Unionize" in Workplace Chat Product (The Intercept; Fang, Lee) (Archive link) -
--Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (Boyd, Danah) (Archive link) -
--Facebook's real name policy is a drag, and not just for the performers it outs (The Guardian; Zimmerman, Jess) (Archive link) -
--Facebook's recent logo drama is a problem on multiple levels (Fast Company; Wilson, Mark) -
--Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (The Intercept; Greenwald, Glenn) (Archive link) -
--How does Facebook suggest potential friends? Not location data - not now (The Guardian; Hunt, Elle) (Archive link) -
--Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings (Fast Company; Pasternack, Alex) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents (The New York Times; Roth, Andrew; Herszenhorn, David) (Archive link) (Onion link) -
--Identity crisis for Koko the Clown (Latrobe Valley Express; Darroch, Sam) (Archive link) -
--I now have an Oculus Paperweight (Reddit; u/mud_juggler) (Archive link) -
--Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads' (Gawker; Chen, Adrian) (Archive link) -
--Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras (Bloomberg; Burnson, Robert) -
--Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts after Soleimani's death (Coda; Cockerell, Isobel) (Archive link) -
--Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) (Archive link) -
--"I have also...received an automated block..." (Hacker News discussion of "I now have an Oculus Paperweight"; dessant) (Archive link) -
--"I've just discovered that a Facebook employee reimplemented the app...and published it using the same name...so I can no longer publish my app without renaming the project." (Hacker News; dessant) (Archive link) -
--On Facebook, French Antiracists Fall Victim to Censorship (La Quadrature du Net) (Archive link) -
--Pulitzer prize winner blocked from Facebook after series of 'corruption facts' posts (Times of Malta; Borg, Jacob) (Archive link) -
--When Facebook's "Real Name" Policies Can Kill (Weinstein, Lauren) -
--Why Does Facebook Keep Suggesting You Friend Your Tinder Matches? (Vice; Paul, Kari) (Archive link) -
--Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite 'real name' policy (Engadget; Blue, Violet) (Archive link) -
++ Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (Boyd, Danah) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Overreacts: Decides All Of The Pirate Bay Is Illegal (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Apparently Won't Let Users Talk About Facebook's Lawsuit With Power.com (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition To The US (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Has Added You As An Informant (OWNI.eu; Vatteble, Maxime) (Original link) +
++ Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads' (Gawker; Chen, Adrian) (Original link) +
++ Facebook Censored and Deleted March Against Monsanto Event (March Against Monsanto; Derricks, Kelly) (Original link) +
++ Facebook censors political satire after complaint from JobCentre Plus (Pride's Purge; Pride, Tom) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook's real name policy is a drag, and not just for the performers it outs (The Guardian; Zimmerman, Jess) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents (The New York Times; Roth, Andrew; Herszenhorn, David) (Archive link) (Onion link) +
++ When Facebook's "Real Name" Policies Can Kill (Weinstein, Lauren) +
++ Why Does Facebook Keep Suggesting You Friend Your Tinder Matches? (Vice; Paul, Kari) (Archive link) +
++ Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite 'real name' policy (Engadget; Blue, Violet) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook is chipping away at privacy - and my profile has been exposed (The Guardian; Hern, Alex) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook is using your phone's location to suggest new friends - which could be a privacy disaster (Splinter; Hill, Kashmir) (Archive link) +
++ How does Facebook suggest potential friends? Not location data - not now (The Guardian; Hunt, Elle) (Archive link) +
++ Identity crisis for Koko the Clown (Latrobe Valley Express; Darroch, Sam) (Archive link) +
++ On Facebook, French Antiracists Fall Victim to Censorship (La Quadrature du Net) (Archive link) +
++ As Facebook blocks the names of trans users and drag queens, this burlesque performer is fighting back (The Guardian; Levin, Sam) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (The Intercept; Greenwald, Glenn) (Archive link) +
++ Pulitzer prize winner blocked from Facebook after series of 'corruption facts' posts (Times of Malta; Borg, Jacob) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged (The Guardian; Tynan, Dan) (Archive link) +
++ Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook's Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study Suggests (The Intercept; Biddle, Sam) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook allowed violent posts by man charged with Ilhan Omar death threat (The Guardian; Swaine, Jon) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed (The Next Web; Mihov, Dimitar) +
++ Facebook's recent logo drama is a problem on multiple levels (Fast Company; Wilson, Mark) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras (Bloomberg; Burnson, Robert) +
++ Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements (The Guardian; Wong, Julia) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like "Unionize" in Workplace Chat Product (The Intercept; Fang, Lee) (Archive link) +
++ Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings (Fast Company; Pasternack, Alex) (Archive link) +
++ I now have an Oculus Paperweight (Reddit; u/mud_juggler) (Archive link) +
++ Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts after Soleimani's death (Coda; Cockerell, Isobel) (Archive link) +
++ "I have also...received an automated block..." (Hacker News discussion of "I now have an Oculus Paperweight"; dessant) (Archive link) +
++ "I've just discovered that a Facebook employee reimplemented the app...and published it using the same name...so I can no longer publish my app without renaming the project." (Hacker News; dessant) (Archive link) +
+-4 Shady Facts Netflix Doesn't Want Viewers To Know (Cracked; Wears, Adam) -
--At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (The Wall Street Journal; Ramachandran, Shalini; Flint, Joe) (Archive link) -
++ At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (The Wall Street Journal; Ramachandran, Shalini; Flint, Joe) (Archive link) +
++ 4 Shady Facts Netflix Doesn't Want Viewers To Know (Cracked; Wears, Adam) +
+- Tillis and NC Republicans paid $345,000 to the data firm that’s now banned from Facebook (Raleigh News & Observer; Murphy, Brian; Bonner, Lynn) + Tillis and NC Republicans paid $345,000 to the data firm that's now banned from Facebook (Raleigh News & Observer; Murphy, Brian; Bonner, Lynn)