Prior Postings
A new paper suggests a publicly funded replacement could be form part of the government’s response if the tech giants limit access
The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
Facebook's policy change comes as President Donald Trump has used social media to make false claims that voting by mail leads to election fraud.
It's Google's biggest financial commitment to the news industry in its history.
We need better policies around data privacy, hate speech, election integrity, and misinformation.
A group of about 25 experts announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions.
“The Hype Machine,” a book by MIT Professor Sinan Aral, examines the dynamics of social media and suggests ways to prevent online information from exacerbating falsehood, polarization, and social tension.
'We very much hope we won't have to. And it would have to be a highly worrisome and abnormal situation to do so,' a top Facebook executive said.
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. It provides further evidence for why organizations should engage their audiences on platforms they can control -- like the one provided by Brainsy.
Jessica Feezell "I think that they should go further than one week and perhaps take it to a full month and pull down the political ads and let Facebook be a place of social engagement and discussion and sharing among people but not necessarily a place where people are able to pay for that speech." -- Brainsy agrees!