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Facebook Investigates How Messenger App Was Used In Russian Meddling
By Kathleen Chaykowski

Facebook FB -0.03% Messenger recently emerged as one of a handful of major social media sites — along with Twitter TWTR -1.42%, YouTube , Facebook and its service Instagram — that were infiltrated by Russian-linked accounts to interfere with the U.S. presidential election ...




 
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SILICON VALLEY’S TECH GODS ARE HEADED FOR A RECKONING
How Facebook and Google became mercenaries—and now casualties—in the information war

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MAYA KOSOFF

... Others in Silicon Valley described Mark Zuckerberg as out of touch with reality, unaware of the damage his brainchild has done. While C.O.O. Sheryl Sandberg, Zuckerberg’s indefatigable No. 2, recently acknowledged that “things happened on our platform that shouldn’t have happened,” she maintained that Facebook is not a news organization. “At our heart we’re a tech company,” she said in an interview last week, “We don’t hire journalists.”


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Mark Zuckerberg
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Antisocial media?


Natasha Lomas
TechCrunchOctober 21, 2017

... But arguably rather less attention has been paid to how ubiquitous tech tools are impacting Western democracies -- at least until last year's US presidential election (which now looks like the moment the political penny dropped, so to speak) -- i.e. in places where democratically elected governments can't literally try to ban or shut down these open access tech tools. (Even if some politicians are now calling for regulation.) ...

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The product Facebook sells is you
Congress and tech companies are eager for an easy PR victory, but requiring advertiser disclosures won’t solve what’s wrong

Ben Wolford

Writing about technology and human rights. Living in the Middle East. Editor of @latterlymag.
Oct 23


If you’ve ever felt like you’re not in control of your brain anymore, the reason is that you’re not. Your memory, executive functions, reward system and consciousness itself have been deliberately…




 

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