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Municipal Broadband: Urban Savior Or Gentrification’s Wrecking Ball?
The case for city-operated broadband is compelling. It offers comparatively fast service. It’s celebrated as a means by which to preserve net neutrality.
At F8, Zuckerberg reiterates Facebook’s commitment to election integrity
Mark Zuckerberg kicked off his keynote by explaining Facebook’s plans to protect the integrity of elections in the United States and abroad. He also recapped moves the company has made to boost transparency in election ads–things like requiring anyone buying a political ad produce government identification to prove they are who they are, and requiring that political ads on Facebook have a higher degree of transparency than print, radio, or TV ads. That, of course, is meant to get in front of Congress’s proposed Honest Ads Act.
25 years ago, the web opened up and the world changed
On April 30, 1993, CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear Research—announced that it was putting a piece of software developed by one of its researchers, Tim Berners-Lee, into the public domain. That software was a “global computer networked information system” called the World Wide Web, and CERN’s decision meant that anyone, anywhere, could run a website and do anything with it. In an era when online services were still dominated by proprietary, for-profit walled gardens such as AOL and CompuServe, that was a radical idea.
Does Facebook Track You After You Log Out? Zuckerberg Punts on the Answer. (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:39Facebook could see a 7% decline in revenue due to new European data laws (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 09:17Zuckerberg keeps insisting Facebook doesn’t sell our data. What it does is even worse
When Zuckerberg was questioned about the company’s handling of user data and how it essentially handed it off to third parties, he demurred. “For some reason, we haven’t been able to kick this notion, for years, that people think that we sell data to advertisers,” said Zuckerberg. “We don’t.”
Quip Is A Startup That Built Its Brand On Facebook. Now It Can Never Leave. (Fast Company)
Submitted by Kip Roderick on Tue, 04/03/2018 - 12:48The diversity of the New York Times’ leadership hasn’t budged in years (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 13:44How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans’ Facebook Data
Facebook has been rocked by reports of a massive data scrape carried out by Cambridge Analytica and one of its then-contractors, a Cambridge University academic named Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan claims that the data he collected from thousands of Facebook users and their friends—amounting to data on over 50 million users—abided by Facebook’s terms; Cambridge Analytica promises it deleted the data; and Facebook is auditing everyone it can for signs of the data. But while Facebook provided the original data, it wasn’t the only vehicle for Kogan’s app.