News of the Week; March 13, 2019
DIGITAL Elizabeth Warren Proposes Plan to Break Up Big Tech Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook Here’s how we can break up Big Tech How To Actually Break Up Big Tech SXSWarren: A day later, Elizabeth Warren defends her Big Tech breakup proposal Elizabeth Warren Wants To Break Up Amazon, Google And Facebook; But Does […]
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News of the Week; March 6, 2019
DIGITAL To Fight Pedophiles, YouTube Disables Comments On Videos Featuring Kids YouTube will disable comments on most videos of kids because of pedophiles YouTube Disables Comments On Tens Of Millions Of Videos Featuring Kids In Effort To Prevent Adpocalypse 2.0 YouTube Bans Comments on Videos With Minors YouTube is demonetizing all videos about Momo Susan […]
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News of the Week; February 27, 2019
DIGITAL Digital rights are *all* human rights, not just civil and political: The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights consults with the field Report: US Cyber Command took Russian trolls offline during midterms Does Twitter Have An Anti-Conservative Bias, Or Just An Anti-Nazi Bias? Latest Garbage Twitter/Terrorism Lawsuit Is The Stupidest Twitter/Terrorism Lawsuit […]
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News of the Week; February 20, 2019
DIGITAL The U.S. is About to Hit Facebook With a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine: It could be the largest tech fine in history. Facebook may face multi-billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook is a law-breaking “digital gangster,” UK government report says It’s time for a “radical shift in the balance of power between the […]
News of the Week; February 13, 2019
DIGITAL Just when an end seemed near, two 3D-printed gun-file legal battles get new life Change how Facebook uses our data: Scandals underscore the need to regulate use of customers’ information Our Thoughts on Facebook’s Oversight Board for Content Decisions How Facebook Screwed Us All: It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere – it’s killing […]
News of the Week; February 6, 2019
DIGITAL The Atlantic’s Taylor Lorenz: Facebook is irrelevant to Gen-Z Sheryl Sandberg: The Teens ‘Consented’ to Putting Facebook Spyware on Their Phones Facebook Bans Armed Rebel Groups in Myanmar Facebook nukes hundreds of “inauthentic” accounts “tied to Iran” Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has made the world better The Tortured Case for Deleting Instagram NY […]
Class #5
Slides below…Note that because the slides were too big to uploaded (even with pictures compressed) I’ve removed some of the extra materials that you/ve seen before (numerous times). See you after mid-term break. Jon