Surprise: Report Claims Facebook Has Been Driving White House TikTok Animosity
As we've been noting, Trump's executive order attempting to ban TikTok is not only legally unsound, it's not coherent policy. Chinese state hackers, with their unlimited budgets, can simply obtain...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook
As you may have heard, last week Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vax organization "Children's Health Defense" filed a supremely stupid lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and fact checking...
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Facebook Is So 'Biased Against Conservatives' That Mark Zuckerberg Personally...
As you well know if you've been reading this site for the last few years, there's a garbage myth out there that the internet companies have an "anti-conservative" bias. First of all, even if this were...
View ArticleZuckerberg And Facebook Throw The Open Internet Under The Bus; Support...
This shouldn't be much of a surprise, unfortunately, but it appears that once again Facebook is the first to crack under political pressure, and has decided to sell out the open internet and free...
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The Senate Snowflake Grievance Committee Quizzes Tech CEOs On Tweets &...
On Wednesday morning the Senate Commerce Committee held a nearly four hour long hearing ostensibly about Section 230 with three internet CEOs: Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, Sundar Pichai from Google,...
View ArticleTransparency Is Important; Mandated Transparency Is Dangerous And Will Stifle...
While much of yesterday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing was focused on the pointless grievances and grandstanding of sitting Senators, there was a bit of actual news made by Mark Zuckerberg and...
View ArticleDay After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Credibly Accused Of Trying To Undermine...
The timing on this is quite incredible. On Monday, Georgia's (Republican) Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, spoke out, saying that Senator Lindsey Graham had called him and implied that...
View ArticleZuckerberg's Grand Illusion: Understanding The Oversight Board Experiment
Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about The Oversight Board -- which everyone refers to as the Facebook Oversight Board, because despite its plans to work with other social media companies, it was...
View ArticleYet Another Story Shows How Facebook Bent Over Backwards To Put In Place...
It has become an article of faith among some that the big social media sites engage in "anti-conservative bias" in their moderation practices. When we point out, over and over again, that there is no...
View ArticleWhat I Hope Tech CEOs Will Tell Congress: 'We're Not Neutral'
The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter will once again testify before Congress this Thursday, this time on disinformation. Here’s what I hope they will say: Thank you Mister Chairman and Madam...
View ArticleBeware Of Facebook CEOs Bearing Section 230 Reform Proposals
As you may know, tomorrow Congress is having yet another hearing with the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, in which various grandstanding politicians will seek to rake Mark Zuckerberg, Jack...
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Militias Still Recruiting On Facebook Demonstrates The Impossibility Of...
Yesterday, in a (deliberately, I assume) well-timed release, the Tech Transparency Project released a report entitled Facebook's Militia Mess, detailing how there are tons of "militia groups"...
View ArticleNo, Facebook's Argument In Response To Muslim Advocates' Lawsuit Is Not...
Mother Jones has a slightly weird article saying that Facebook is making an "awkward legal argument" in a lawsuit that was filed against the company by Muslim Advocates, arguing that Facebook and its...
View ArticleIt Can Always Get Dumber: Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming...
Yes, it can always get dumber. The news broke last night that Donald Trump was planning to sue the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter for his "deplatforming." This morning we found out that they were going...
View ArticleThe Externalization Of Content Moderation: Facebook Explores 'Election...
We've covered plenty of stuff about the Oversight Board that Facebook set up. While we recognize the cynicism towards it and still think it's somewhat early to judge, for many of us following the...
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Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
Over the last few weeks, the WSJ has run a series of posts generally called "The Facebook Files," which have exposed a variety of internal documents from Facebook that are somewhat embarrassing. I do...
View ArticleFacebook: Amplifying The Good Or The Bad? It's Getting Ugly
When the New York Times reported Facebook’s plan to improve its reputation, the fact that the initiative was called “Project Amplify” wasn’t a surprise. “Amplification” is at the core of the Facebook...
View ArticleRethinking Facebook: We Need To Make Sure That 'Good For The World' Is More...
I'm sure by now most of you have either seen or read about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's appearance on 60 Minutes discussing in detail the many problems she saw within Facebook. I'm always a...
View ArticleKlobuchar's Silly Letter To Facebook Raises 1st Amendment Issues And Only...
Senator Amy Klobuchar really is taking to her role as the Senator most eager to set up a Ministry of Truth in the government. Klobuchar has always been terrible on tech/internet issues, but she's...
View ArticleFacebook: Amplifying The Good Or The Bad? It's Getting Ugly
When the New York Times reported Facebook’s plan to improve its reputation, the fact that the initiative was called “Project Amplify” wasn’t a surprise. “Amplification” is at the core of the Facebook...
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