by Ty Davison | Oct 12, 2017 | News & Commentary
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/12/facebook-takes-down-data-and-thousands-of-posts-obscuring-reach-of-russian-disinformation/In the court of public opinion, Facebook is going to be judged very harshly. It’s one thing to make a mistake....
by Ty Davison | Nov 20, 2016 | News & Commentary
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/11/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-facebook-news-feed-because-its-not-news/Fundamentally, the Facebook News Feed has two problems: It’s frequently made up of fake news, and the user doesn’t control the feed.
by Ty Davison | Nov 15, 2016 | News & Commentary
http://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204″…it’s now clear that democracy suffers if our news feeds incentivize bullshit.†The first obligation of the Fourth Estate is truth, and the problem is the Facebook...
by Ty Davison | Aug 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
Increasingly thinking it’s time to leave Facebook. This psychiatrist’s experience is just creepy.All these patients likely have Lisa’s number in their phones, so an algorithm analyzing this network of phone contacts might reasonably assume all these people are...
by Ty Davison | Aug 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
Thing is, did anyone really expect anything else to happen? Facebook paid over $20 billion for an app with a huge user base and no revenue stream. “WhatsApp obtained one billion users by promising that it would protect user privacy. Both Facebook and WhatsApp made...
