The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation Read More
We are now in social media’s Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen.
A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Read More
How one man came to rule political speech on Facebook, command one of the largest lobbies in DC, and guide Zuck through disaster—and straight into it.
The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington Read More
If you’ve finally hit your breaking point, here’s how to say goodbye to Mark Zuckerberg’s empire.
How to Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account Read More
Hundreds of millions of users. No algorithm. No ads. Courage in the face of autocracy. Sound like a dream? Careful what you wish for.
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook Read More
A Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus outage knocked every corner of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire offline on Monday. It’s a social media blackout that can most charitably be described as “thorough” and seems likely to prove particularly tough to fix.
Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today Read More
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story. Read More
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem. [Not because he doesn’t want to, but because he is not allowed to as it would get in the way of profits.]
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation Read More
The hackers posed as recruiters, journalists, and hospitality workers to lure their victims.
Facebook Catches Iranian Spies Catfishing US Military Targets Read More
Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my experiment, I’m going to see if I can survive blocking all five at once.
I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell Read More
As consumers, we are afforded only a few avenues of acceptable dissent—the most reasonable of which is that, if you don’t like what a company is doing, you can move your money and data elsewhere. But increasingly this option is unavailable to us.
Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How Read More
[This article is an overview of a] paper [that] presents a rigorous study that explores the reputation manipulation ecosystem, ultimately working with Facebook to examine ways to stop this kind of large-scale online social networking abuse.
Technical Perspective: Fake ‘Likes’ and Targeting Collusion Networks Read More A comprehensive measurement study of collusion-based reputation manipulation services on Facebook.
Measuring and Mitigating OAuth Access Token Abuse by Collusion Networks Read More
In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Lost Notebook Read More
“The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society – and sets out to try to stop it. “
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and…
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe Read More