Facebook Limits Some Ad Targeting; People Still Won't Be Happy

I still think that the power of targeted advertising is somewhat overblown (and that neither Google nor Facebook want to admit that). Relatedly, I think that bad targeted advertising creeps people out way too much, and that's a problem. However...

More to Facebook rebrand than meets the eye: sources

Lawyers delve into the trademark strategy for Facebook’s Meta rebrand and explain why it might get away with having such an indistinctive name

Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Struggles To Correctly Moderate The Word 'Hoe' (2021)

Summary: One of the many challenges with content moderation is the flexibility of language. When applying blocklists — a list of prohibited terms considered not appropriate for the platform — moderators need to consider...

Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators

Creators will keep all their revenue if people pay for their Facebook subscriptions through custom web links.

Surprising, But Important: Facebook Sorta Shuts Down Its Face Recognition System

A month ago, I highlighted how Facebook seemed uniquely bad attaking a long term view and publicly committing to doing things that are good for the world, but bad for Facebook in the short run . So it was a bit surprising earlier this week to see...

Facebook ‘Puts Engagement and Growth Before the Health and Welfare of Democracy’

"Indeed, Facebook has moved fast and broken things. But some of the things that they have broken include the lives of people."

'Pivotal Moment' as Facebook Ditches 'Dangerous' Facial Recognition System

"Facebook getting out of the face recognition business is a pivotal moment in the growing national discomfort with this technology," says Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Adam Schwartz. "Corporate use of face surveillance is very dangerous...

The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up

I've mocked the NY Times for its repeated failures to understand basic facts about internet regulations such as Section 230 -- but the organization also deserves credit when it gets things (mostly) right. Last week, Farhad Manjoo wrote up a great...

It's Ridiculous The 'Developing World' Wasn't Given Access To The Facebook Files

By now it's fairly clear the Facebook leaks showcase a company that prioritized near-mindless international growth over the warnings of their own experts. They also show a company that continues to painfully struggle to be even marginally...

Learning to Live With Mark Zuckerberg

Journalists and tech executives seem to be fighting each other to a draw in a battle that has no end in sight.

Facebook Has Been a Dying Platform for Years, and It’s Mentally Perverting the Older Generation

The Facebook Whistleblowers, as they are called, didn’t tell us much that we didn’t know already. The platform is pure evil. It spies on people, and ignores extremists and political terrorists (lik…

Bias in FB algorithm a serious issue: Chandrasekhar - ET CIO

The comments by junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar came in response to a question around concerns over inadequate content supervision/moderation ..

Meta: Facebook's new name ridiculed by Hebrew speakers

The social media giant joins a number of companies that have fallen foul of translation blunders.

Karen Dolan on Build Back Better, Tim Karr on Changing Facebook

  This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was "$3.5 trillion," only 10% had any sense of what was in it. That is many things, but preeminently a...

'Don't Be Fooled': Critics of Facebook Say Name Change Can't Hide Company's Harm

"Changing their name doesn't change reality," says the Real Facebook Oversight Board. "Facebook is destroying our democracy and is the world's leading peddler of disinformation and hate."