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Social Media CEOs Can’t Defend Their Business Model
Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai testified before Congress for a hearing titled “Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role In Promoting Extremism And Misinformation.” If you tuned in looking for dumb questions, annoying partisan talking points, and exasperatingly squishy discussions of “misinformation” and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, you would not have been disappointed. However!
Big Tech Targets DC With a Digital Ad Offensive in Newsletters (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 10:33TikTok Played a Key Role in MAGA Radicalization (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/04/2021 - 11:53The digital divide is giving American churches hell
For places of worship, COVID-19 has upended traditions and emptied sacred spaces. About 45 percent of Americans attend religious services regularly, most of them in Christian churches. Or they did, until last spring. Then shutdowns and stay-at-home orders sent congregations scrambling to move their services online, similar to schools and workplaces. Many churches found themselves in trouble, struggling to reach worshippers virtually while facing budget cuts, layoffs, and the threat of bankruptcy or even permanent closure.
If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 06:26Covid-19 has upended churchgoing in the US. Like so much else with the pandemic, the impacts are not felt equally. (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 06:53Facebook and Apple Are Beefing Over the Future of the Internet
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech explaining his company’s upcoming privacy changes, which will ban apps from sharing iPhone user behavior with third parties unless users give explicit consent. And he made plain that these new policies were designed at least in part with Facebook in mind.