social information processing
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Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Releases Her 8 Damning SEC Complaints
Complaints Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accuses the company of lying to the agency, investors, journalists, and Congress.
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Why Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram All Went Down on Monday
Facebook, your uncle’s favourite source for information on how 5G is making everyone communist, experienced a six-hour outage Monday. And it wasn’t just Facebook — the company’s other major platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, were also down. We finally got a statement from Facebook overnight about what happened, and the culprit was some configuration changes made internally…
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Why a Real Facebook Ad Boycott Is Doomed
Here’s a fun thought experiment. Let’s say you, like any decent, law-abiding internet user, are feeling enraged by the recent slew of Wall Street Journal reports detailing Facebook’s myriad failures. Maybe you’re angry over Facebook’s inability to reckon with anti-vax content, or you’re angry at its slow response to known criminals abusing its platform, or,…
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Facebook VP Disputes Reports That Company Ignored Platform-Wide Issues Harming Users
Facebook on Saturday pushed back against recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that cited a trove of leaked company documents to outline how Facebook executives have been slow to respond to known problems across its platforms that harm users. In a company blog post, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the…