Tag: facebook

• The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they…

  May 17, 2018

  The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they matter » There are few functions where the phrase “the more things change, the more they stay the same” rings truer… more ›

• ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to…

  May 1, 2018

  ‘One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong’ » Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures… more ›

• The death of the newsfeed

  April 16, 2018

  The death of the newsfeed » When I got married, my future wife and I were both quite sure that we would have a nice small, quiet wedding – none… more ›

• Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of…

  April 15, 2018

  Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture » Reality’s been having a tough time of it lately. From fake news to fake video to the utter charade of our Instagram… more ›

• Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and…

  April 2, 2018

  Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next » It’s been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake news,… more ›

• Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping…

  March 20, 2018

  Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping The NSA Spy On Americans? » Last night we learned about PRISM, a classified National Security Agency program that involves huge, wide-ranging data… more ›

• Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m…

  March 17, 2018

  Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles' – video » <p>Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without… more ›

• Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the…

  February 12, 2018

  Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World » One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some… more ›

• It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free…

  January 16, 2018

  It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech » For most of modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being… more ›

• Lynch

  December 19, 2017

  Lynch » This paper explores pragmatic approaches that might be employed to document the behavior of large, complex socio-technical systems (often today shorthanded as “algorithms”) that centrally involve some mixture… more ›