They covered more of this on tonight’s programme and if this massive amount of data really is the equivalent of having a mind control ray (which i don’t believe either), as Shoshana Zuboff and David Carroll seem to believe, then we are hosed.
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Yeah, I haven’t watched tonight’s but you have to credit traditional analogue voter suppression, and how the Democratic party assumed people were captive rather than tired, and traditional misogyny.
Oh and gerrymandering, the electoral college, and the far right billionaire media dominating the discourse.
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Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened Facebook with possible expulsion after The Social Network™ deleted posts and groups that support some of his policies and criticised a prominent media foe. Now the nation’s Congress will probe whether the company restricts free speech.
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Let’s see how this goes…
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The stack of readers, fact-checkers, lawyers and executives probably includes a resident fascist who presents the case for not deleting it.
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"And Facebook still hasn’t taken down Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Astonishingly, Facebook continues to give a platform to white supremacists and Holocaust deniers. It’s as if the satirist Jonathan Swift foresaw the awful power of social media when he said, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”
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Facebook’s anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck’s sucky ethics board
The website of the Real Facebook Oversight Board (RFOB), a critical advocacy group set up as a riposte to the social network’s inaction on that front, has been taken down because its hosting company believes it’s a phishing operation.
It not immediately clear how that determination was made, but a Facebook spokesperson suggested both the removal of the RFOB’s .org site and the recent removal of its .com site, due to a trademark complaint, followed from the findings of a bot from a Facebook-contracted brand protection company.
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Facebook doesn’t know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic ‘overtly sexual’
Facebook’s computer-vision algorithm flagged an innocuous advert for onions posted on its social media platform for being “overtly sexual.”
The Seed Company by EW Gaze, a Canadian garden store, wanted to advertise its Walla Walla onion seeds on the social network, but its attempt was shot down after the image used in the advert was deemed too naughty by Facebook’s software.
Although most would argue that there’s nothing remotely sexy about a close-up shot of onions in a basket, Facebook’s automated software clearly disagreed. A screenshot posted by the company said the image was classified as having “overtly sexual positioning”.
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Paint me like one of your French onions…
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‘Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,’ says social network – but don’t hold that against it
From the Department of Definitely Not Evil comes news that Facebook is donating £1m to Britain’s Bletchley Park computing landmark.
Heh. Heh heh heh heh heh. Hehe. Heh.
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