art Artist Cindy Sherman took her Instagram public Andrea James

web theory Heavy social media use leads to a wider variety of news sources Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Binky: a fully automated social network that doesn't require you to be sociable Cory Doctorow

News Binky is a fake social network where nothing is real and nothing matters Mark Frauenfelder

facebook How this teen's life changed after deleting all social media Andrea James

web theory Scuttlebutt: an "off-grid" P2P social network that runs without servers and can fall back to sneakernet Cory Doctorow

social media Mastodon – like Twitter, without Nazis Mark Frauenfelder

politics Figuring out Donald Trump's media diet by mining his tweets Cory Doctorow

Funny Even superheroes have problems with social media Andrea James

surveillance Governments see social media as "a new front in warfare" Andrea James

privacy The surveillance economy has 67 days to disarm before Trump is sworn in Cory Doctorow

law Lawsuit: mayor's social media blocklists are public records Cory Doctorow

picks Facebook inflated a key video view metric by 60-80% for two years Xeni Jardin

youtube YouTube announces crowdsourced censorship Andrea James

News Here's what you need to know about Twitter's new character limit update Xeni Jardin

web theory Instagram announces anti-harassment tools, overtaking Twitter Cory Doctorow

censorship Chinese Cyberspace Administration bans news-sourcing from social media Cory Doctorow

picks Omar Mateen posted to Facebook during Orlando mass shooting Xeni Jardin

Business Salt Lake City apartment complex threatens tenants with eviction if they don't "Friend" the building Cory Doctorow

web theory Texas: prisoners whose families maintain their social media presence face 45 days in solitary Cory Doctorow