This is a good, and extensive, and well worth, summary of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In short, it’s clear that the company Cambridge Analytica was able to use Facebook’s architecture and algorithms to make a mockery of Facebook’s claims of user privacy – accessing, mining, analysing and influencing users in ways not thought possible or […]
Facebook has been having a hard time with publishers lately. Well, maybe not so lately, considering the debacle that tied Facebook inexorably to the alleged/real/apparent work by Russia to influence the US Election. Trust could be said to be at an all time low, if you wanted to hype it up. And Facebook has made […]
Let’s do a 2017 wrap up. It’s so in the moment. In tech, 2017 belonged to 2 things, for me. Not Facebook & Google, or Foogle, or Googbook or whatever the fuck people are calling the media monopoly. Not even close. One: Uber Damned, but this year was Uber’s year. And not in a good […]
It hasn’t been a good election for Facebook. Some months ago they faced accusations of bias against Conservatives, then got caught spreading fake news after they replaced their human editors with an algorithm. And after the results, were accused of having (possibly unduly) influenced the result by being an easy way to spread fake news and generate […]
Last Friday, it was revealed that Facebook had fired its “Trending Editors” team, who looked after its trending news feed (kinda obvious from the name?), and had only recently been in the news under accusations of bias from the Conservatives in the US. It also comes fairly soon after Facebook rolled out its sections and […]
