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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamshawphotography_meta-is-using-your-instagram-photos-to-train-activity-7196481069292867584-KniY

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1787239378927993073

https://spyglass.org/the-end-of-tiktok/

The Chilling of TikTok Ban or not, this is the end of TikTok as we know it

WHEN PRODUCT MARKETS BECOME COLLECTIVE TRAPS: THE CASE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Leonardo Bursztyn Benjamin R. Handel Rafael Jimenez Christopher Roth
Working Paper 31771 http://www.nber.org/papers/w31771
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
October 2023

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiktok-ban-data-privacy-security/

Banning TikTok Would Do Basically Nothing to Protect Your Data Proposed restrictions on TikTok would be “security theater” in the face of the staggering amounts of data that foreign and domestic tech companies collect

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/21/1083760/meta-transparency-research-database-nick-clegg/

Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence

Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team Members were moved to other AI projects.

Artists Allege Meta’s AI Data Deletion Request Process Is a ‘Fake PR Stunt’
This summer, Meta began taking requests to delete data from its AI training. Artists say this new system is broken and fake. Meta says there is no opt-out program.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-artificial-intelligence-data-deletion/

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/30/how-to-stop-meta-from-using-personal-data-to-train-generative-ai-.html

How to stop Meta from using some of your personal data to train generative AI models Facebook users can now delete their personal information found in the third-party sources that Meta uses to train generative artificial intelligence models.

deadline friday

Facebook users have one more day to file for part of a $725 million settlement. Here's how. The application to collect part of Meta's data privacy settlement is simple, requiring only a few minutes to fill out.

https://email.projectliberty.io/child-online-safety-a-world-tour

Child online safety - a world tour Globally, one out of every three internet users is a child under the age of 18, and screen usage has increased dramatically in the last few years (youth in the US are spending between five and eight hours a day staring at a screen).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/meta-ending-news-availability-permanently-1.6924370

Meta permanently ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting today | CBC News Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday.

"Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech"
"The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research."

Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html

Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing. Parents, scientists and the surgeon general are worried. But there isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

🚨 BREAKING:

~40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours.

Here’s what’s going on 👇

Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy on Twitter “🚨 BREAKING: ~40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours. Here’s what’s going on 👇”

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1654153314433486851

Cory Doctorow @[email protected] Red Team Blues on Twitter “Ostromizing democracy: To counter antidemocratic libertarians, we need an analytical assessment of group problem-solving. https://t.co/yOi5auIn82 3/”

“The internet keeps surprising me with human creativity and variation. And I think as long as we're capable of doing that, that's a helpful counterweight and counterbalance to all the many terrible things.”

An Interview with Internet Scholar Ethan Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, and director of UMass’s Initiative for Digital Public

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/02/01/humans-code-internet/events/the-takeaway/

Can Humans Reprogram the Internet’s Original Sin? | The Takeaway From the Pop-Up Ad to Criminal Sentencing Algorithms, Software—And the People Behind It—Shape Our Lives.

https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/facebook-addiction-increases-depression-severity-among-people-who-are-already-depressed-64586

Facebook addiction increases depression severity among people who are already depressed A longitudinal study found that the addictive use of Facebook can increase depression severity among people diagnosed with depression. The findings ...

meta super bowl commercial explained

dis — Syzygy Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/

Pluralistic: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech (10 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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How Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study Or ten times Mark Zuckerberg je**ed me around

https://twitter.com/curve_me_tender/status/1595556176338751488

The OnYx on Twitter “ ”

https://twitter.com/mosquitocapital/status/1593541177965678592