Business & Tech Facebook's PR Crisis Continues As More News Outlets Report on the 'Facebook Papers' Revelations about Facebook's knowledge of its enormous and fundamental problems, and the company's ineptitude in handling them or lack of true interest in trying because it would hurt the bottom line, are continuing to roll in.
Business & Tech Facebook Whistleblower Who Shared Docs With Wall Street Journal Goes on '60 Minutes' to Spill More Dirt On Sunday, the whistleblower behind the bombshell pieces published by the Wall Street Journal last month went on '60 Minutes' to discuss why she jumped ship with a trove of damning internal research, specifically to show the public how the company prioritizes profit over the public good.
Business & Tech Facebook Seemingly Still Monkeying With Algorithm to Limit Right-Wing Agitprop K-Pop stans and dog advice posts are the early benefactors of some possible Facebook algorithm and reporting changes, but the Dinesh D'Souzas and Ben Shapiros of the world are sharp at adapting to game the system.
Business & Tech Facebook Employee Raises Powered by ‘Really Dangerous’ Algorithm That Favors Angry Posts Employee raises at Facebook depend on engagement, and newly leaked private Zuckerberg recordings show the Groups algorithm prioritizes enragement.
Business & Tech Local Attorney Sues Facebook for Blocking His Account Over and Over Again After the fifth time Facebook classified his sardonic jokes as hate speech and shut down his account, a gadfly Bay Area lawyer tries to zing Zuckerberg’s algorithm.
Business & Tech Facebook Algorithm Purposely Played Up Stories About Politics, Crime, and Tragedy While Mark Zuckerberg was talking out one side of his mouth in January 2018 about encouraging more "meaningful interactions" with friends and family, Facebook was simultaneously tweaking its News Feed algorithm to display more posts on the topics of "politics, crime, or tragedy."
SF News Instagram Mucks Up Your Feed With Algorithmic Timeline Instagram intends to go the way of its parent company Facebook, and will soon switch your timeline from a chronological display to one ordered by an unknown algorithm, a.k.a. something to
Arts & Entertainment As Facebook Turns 12, It Reminds Us We Are Only 3.5 Degrees Separated From Everyone Else Six degrees of separation? That theory is long dead. As we mark the 12th (!) birthday of the social network that rules too many of our lives, Facebook tells us that with each passing
SF News Regarding The Mystery Of Who And What Controls Your Facebook News Feed Facebook needs us. It needed us at the beginning to create the "network effect": friends flocking together to see and be seen. But now it needs us more than ever, as Slate writes