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The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
Facebook's News Feed acts like "slot machine for the brain."
The tactics of carefully targeted, data-driven manipulation—though innovative and destabilizing—are not entirely new. They predate the existence of Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook, and the contemporary notion of “fake news” itself. For decades, digital marketers—working in both commercial and political domains—have been perfecting models for using consumer data to identify and manipulate decision-making vulnerabilities.
Can silence be the best response to mis- and dis-information? First Draft has been asking ourselves this question since the French election, when we had to make difficult decisions about what information to publicly debunk for CrossCheck. We became worried that – in cases where rumours, misleading articles or fabricated visuals were confined to niche […]
The problems Facebook are facing today are the result of running into the future without considering unintended consequences, much like Microsoft and the Internet. There are clear solutions for the…
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Evidence for the multiple-hearings hypothesis.
Few of us are at our best when our adrenaline is spiked by outrage.
Influencers on social media must disclose.
The problems with Facebook’s ad tool are the predictable outcome of rudimentary automation coupled with bad human behavior.
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…
Jesse Walker on how our need for narrative creates a market for both conspiracy theory and fake and slanted news: For a lot of people, the real assumption that they bring to the news, even beyond t…
Looking at the Marmite of the typeface world
Google prompted BuzzFeed News to run ads targeted to keywords like "black people ruin neighborhoods," then allowed the campaign to go live.
Experts say the technology exposes us to privacy and security risks.
A Yale survey of 7,500 people shows little benefit, and possible detriments, to fact-check programs.