Brad Parscale has said he’s taking a relative pittance to run the president’s reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that’s not the full story. This is.
Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.
For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.
A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.
“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.
Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.
It was Hell.
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
How lies become truth in online America.
On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.
A profile.
Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.
Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.
How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.
How social media is fanning violence across the globe.
“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.
Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.
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Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
