Business Demetrification: improving social media by removing public like/follower/repost counts Cory Doctorow

social media How many books could you read if you quit social media? Rob Beschizza

privacy Facebook paid contractors to transcribe audio chats Rob Beschizza

canada Mounties accidentally stream homicide press conference with Facebook's cat filter turned on Seamus Bellamy

politics Only jerks are invited to Trump social media summit Xeni Jardin

Business Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google to testify at Capitol Hill antitrust hearing July 16 Xeni Jardin

facebook Instagram's new solution against bullying: Artificial Intelligence, and 'Restrict' Xeni Jardin

facebook Flickr offers the best social media experience going Seamus Bellamy

social media Animated bar chart of the most popular social media networks from 2003 – 2018 Mark Frauenfelder

web theory Massive, careful study finds that social media use is generally neutral for kids' happiness, and sometimes positive Cory Doctorow

politics White House asks fans to report anti-Trump 'political bias' online Xeni Jardin

politics Google tells U.S. House it spends 'hundreds of millions' on content review each year, found +1M 'terrorist videos' on YouTube in Q1 2019 Xeni Jardin

Funny German model brilliantly pranks lewd and sexist Instagram commenters David Pescovitz

Technology Twitter update lets iOS users go ‘Lights Out,’ adds automatic dark modes Xeni Jardin

Business There is a federal criminal investigation into Facebook's data-sharing deals Xeni Jardin

Sex You'll never guess what app teens use for sexting these days Xeni Jardin

Business Facebook + Instagram + WhatsApp outage 'resolved,' blamed on 'server configuration change' Xeni Jardin

late stage capitalism Yacht dealers rely on Instagram "yacht influencers" to flip their wares Cory Doctorow

Technology Gay dating app Jack'd stored users' private images and data on unsecured AWS server Xeni Jardin

books 'Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe,' by Roger McNamee [BOOKS] Xeni Jardin