Aaron Davis (collect.readwriterespond.com)This is an intriguing representation of social media over time: It is useful as a provocation for many conversations.
Thanks Aarron,
Worth watching more than once. Lovely, fascinating animation. I wish I had some data to put into Flourish!
Facebook is asking to be regulated but wants to choose how
For instance, during the Brexit campaign ads aimed at securing leave votes appeared not as ads at all but as quizzes or competitions, targeted at the demographics most likely to be persuaded.
Good overview imo
Facebook has targeted politicians around the world – including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne – promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy legislation
Surprised?
The zone of proximal depravity
what the algorithmic feed does is effectively collapse this protective layer
We are closer to ugly though thanks to algorithms.
👍🔗 enjoying, sort of, Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook – The New York Times
👍🔗 To Serve The World – from a dog that does. Plus great gif @cogdog
Targeted FB ads & video editing are worrying Tory attack ad misrepresents Corbyn views on IRA, says Labour
This is why I still think journalists should be posting on their own sites and only syndicating to Facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/facebook-blocks-malta-journalist-joseph-muscat-panama-papers?CMP=twt_gu
Google says it can’t trust our self-hosted AMP pages enough to pre-render them. But they ask for a lot of trust from us. We’re supposed to trust Google to cache and host copies of our pages. We’re supposed to trust Google to provide some mechanism to users to get at the original canonical URL. I’d like to see trust work both ways.
Source: Adactio: Journal—In AMP we trust
Reading above my pay grade again.
More about Google’s AMP stuff here: Google AMP is good for mobile web users – but what about publishers? | Media | The Guardian
One of the things it does is present your content quickly without all the javascript that slows pages down, but it also seems to hijack the ULR and give the material a google one.
Given Schools should teach pupils how to spot ‘fake news’ – BBC News, it might make understanding and evaluating content even harder.
Facebook was the key to the entire campaign, Wigmore explained. A Facebook ‘like’, he said, was their most “potent weapon”. “Because using artificial intelligence, as we did, tells you all sorts of things about that individual and how to convince them with what sort of advert. And you knew there would also be other people in their network who liked what they liked, so you could spread. And then you follow them. The computer never stops learning and it never stops monitoring.”
from: Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian
Carole Cadwalladr’s article in today’s Observer, is both fascinating and frightening. The technology used by Cambridge Analytics is incredibly powerful the use it has ben put too worrying. Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU’s comms director in the quote above doesn’t have a Facebook account quoted in the same article:
It is creepy! It’s really creepy! It’s why I’m not on Facebook! I tried it on myself to see what information it had on me and I was like, ‘Oh my God!’ What’s scary is that my kids had put things on Instagram and it picked that up. It knew where my kids went to school.
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