web theory Independent audit finds Facebook activity has fallen by 20% since Cambridge Analytica Cory Doctorow
corruption Facebook hate group investigation reveals 400 police officers, including NYPD cops, to be members Xeni Jardin
Business Facebook execs are worried that Zuck's emails show he never took his FTC privacy obligations seriously Cory Doctorow
picks Art pranksters upload Mark Zuckerberg deepfake to Instagram to test Facebook's non-removal policy Xeni Jardin
law European legal official OKs orders that force Facebook to globally remove insults to politicians like "oaf" and "fascist" (as well as synonyms) Cory Doctorow
picks Racist groups banned by Facebook change account names, get right back on, research shows Xeni Jardin
Business Big Tech: "If the USA enforces antitrust laws against us, it means China will win!" Cory Doctorow
facebook FCC grants Facebook-owned PointView Tech permit for experimental millimeter-wave CubeSat for satellite internet Xeni Jardin
elections Facebook's Dutch Head of Policy lied to the Dutch parliament about election interference Cory Doctorow
gender TOSsed out: EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they're supposed to protect Cory Doctorow
politics Facebook bans election-attack firm linked to Israeli military and 'dozens' more disinformation accounts Xeni Jardin
censorship Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow
corruption Lawyer involved in suits against Israel's most notorious cyber-arms dealer targeted by its weapons, delivered through a terrifying Whatsapp vulnerability Cory Doctorow
facebook Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups Cory Doctorow
facebook Google mistakenly started handing out a reporter's cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support Cory Doctorow
