Facebook targeting model

This is how Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked — according to the person who built it (Matthew Hindman, The Conversation)

Facebook is defending itself again after an internal memo suggested growth was more important than user safety (Recode)

Facebook: a long history of 'mea culpas'

The Many Mea Culpas of Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder has this down to a formula. (Slate)

Não vejo, não ouço, não sei...

Só o Facebook é que não sabia... (Público)

Your Facebook data

How to read your valuable personal Facebook data (Android Authority)

Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones (Ars Technica)

#DeleteFacebook?

#DeleteFacebook? You'll probably never escape its colossal reach (Wired)

The Cambridge Analytica Files

Former Cambridge Analytica exec says she wants lies to stop (The Guardian)

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower (The Guardian)

How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political tool (The Guardian). Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters.

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach (The Guardian)


Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on the Trump campaign (TechCrunch)

Fake news and online disinformation

A multi-dimensional approach to disinformation. Report of the independent High level Group on fake news and online disinformation (HLEG):

1)    Enhance transparency of online news, involving an adequate and privacy-compliant sharing of data about the systems that enable their circulation online;

2)    Promote media and information literacy to counter disinformation and help users navigate the digital media environment;

3)    Develop tools for empowering users and journalists to tackle disinformation and foster a positive engagement with fast-evolving information technologies;

4)    Safeguard the diversity and sustainability of the European news media ecosystem, and

5)    Promote continued research on the impact of disinformation in Europe to evaluate the measures taken by different actors and constantly adjust the necessary responses.

The Simulation Hypothesis

The Simulation Hypothesis — Why Quantum Physics, AI, and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are In A Video Game (Riz Virk)

The "troll factory"

The Russians Who Exposed Russia’s Trolls (@DFRlab)

La red es... blanca... masculina... hetero...

“El anonimato digital genera reacciones dañinas y machistas” (Eurídice Cabañes). Para la programadora la red es mayoritariamente blanca, masculina, cisgénero y heterosexual.

Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous

"Bitcoin will crash because of course it will. Bubbles burst (...)" (Paul Ford, Cripto).

Automated propaganda & fake news

Fake news is part of a bigger problem: automated propaganda (Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review)

'Facebook or bust'

‘Facebook or bust’: Facebook publisher Attn stands its ground after news-feed change (Digiday)

Algorithms of Oppression

Bias already exists in search engine results, and it’s only going to get worse. The way search engines work is far from unprejudiced (Jackie Snow, MIT Technology Review). Algorithms of Oppression. How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble, New York University Press, 2018)

The tyranny of algorithms is part of our lives: soon they could rate everything we do (John Harris, The Guardian)