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Facebook Renews Its Ambitions to Connect the World
Facing heightened scrutiny for its social media policies and relentless quest for growth, Facebook is now turning its attention to getting more people high-speed internet access in hard-to-reach places. The move comes with some irony, as it comes on the heels of Facebook’s own massive outage, which temporarily took down all of the apps in its empire.
20 Years After 9/11, Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 12:47Facebook Quietly Makes a Big Admission: Engagement isn't always best way to measure what users value (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 08/31/2021 - 17:2038 Million Records Were Exposed Online—Including Contact-Tracing Info (Wired)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Mon, 08/23/2021 - 17:20Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/05/2021 - 06:12President Biden Has to Play Hardball with Internet Platforms (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/26/2021 - 06:23A People’s History of Black Twitter (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/18/2021 - 15:43No, Facebook and Google Are Not Public Utilities
Should Google get front-facing internet platforms should be regulated as common carriers or public utilities has been kicking around for a while. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a l