Tag: the newsfeed

• Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

  May 3, 2024

  Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of… more ›

• The Schedule and the Stream

  December 13, 2019

  Right now, we’re at a tipping point between two concepts that shape how we experience the world—the schedule and the stream. The first has lasted over a century, and the… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• Promise Kept

  May 14, 2015

  Promise Kept NewsWhip’s data team noticed the reduction when analysing data for the biggest Facebook sites of February 2015. A wide range of top publishers, including BuzzFeed, the New York… more ›