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Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.
The upcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) prohibits the processing and exploitation of some categories of personal data (health, political orientation, sexual preferences,...
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
As Facebook continues to embed itself into the fabric of our social and online lives – or, perhaps it’s more correct to say, as we let Facebook continue to embed itself in our lives …
On search engines and social media, their distortions of society, and what we can do about them.
Among the companies we found doing it: Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook itself. “It’s blatantly unlawful,” said one employment law expert.
‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’
After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions.
In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
Facebook’s latest test disrupted the news ecosystem in six small countries. Does the company owe them anything?
The company’s rules help to show how it distinguishes between free speech and hate speech. Judge for yourself.
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
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.
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…
The problems with Facebook’s ad tool are the predictable outcome of rudimentary automation coupled with bad human behavior.
Slate placed an ad targeting people interested in “killing haji,” “ku-klux-klan,” and more.
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.