It’s been almost a year since the EU’s executive announced it would propose rules for political ads transparency in response to concern about online microtargeting and big data techniques making mincemeat of democratic integrity and accountability. Today it’s come out with its proposal. But frankly it doesn’t look like the wait was worth it. The […]
【西田宗千佳連載】Facebookが社名変更して挑む「メタバース」の価値
Vol.109-1 本連載では、ジャーナリスト・西田宗千佳氏がデジタル業界の最新動向をレポートする。今回は、デジタル業界でいま話題のメタバースを取り上げる。 110兆円の市場にビジネスの中心を…
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental heath
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate for the first time as part of a series of hearings about online safety for children and teens. Per The New York Times, Mosseri’s hearing will take place on December 6. Mosseri’s upcoming testimony comes after Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter to Facebook […]
Memes for inmates
“After experiencing it for myself, it seems absurd that this fundamental strangeness of Facebook isn’t a regular topic of conversation.” Kaitlyn Tiffany makes the world’s blandest Facebook profile to see what’s going on over there. (unpaywalled version)
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public
Gizmodo says it will be making the “Facebook Papers” public, becoming the first media outlet to do so. These documents were leaked to U.S. regulators by a Facebook whistleblower earlier this year and “reveal that the social media giant has privately a…
Niantic raises $300M at a $9B valuation to build the ‘real-world metaverse’
Niantic, the augmented reality platform that’s developing games like Pokémon GO, raised $300 million from Coatue, valuing the company at $9 billion. The San Fransisco-based startup, which initially spun out of Google, will use this money to build what it calls the “real-world metaverse.” As early as August, Niantic founder and CEO John Hanke has […]
Equity Monday: Paytm’s rocky debut gets rockier
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Happy Monday everyone, and welcome to a holiday week here in the United States. Yes, we here in the good ol’ States will be off the second half of this week. TechCrunch won’t […]
How Facebook and Google Actually Fund the Creation of Misinformation
MIT’s Technology Review shares data from a Facebook-run tool called CrowdTangle. It shows that by 2018 in the nation of Myanmar (population: 53 million), ” All the engagement had instead gone to fake news and clickbait websites.
“In a country where F…
The US has an education problem, but is Big Tech really the answer?
The future of STEM education won’t become more equitable by creating a free coding course but by seeing the solutions already before us and acting accordingly.
Meta、Facebook の偽アカウントなどを使用した監視活動をやめるよう米ロサンゼルス市警に要請
Meta が米ロサンゼルス市警 (LAPD) に対し、Facebook 上での偽アカウント運用やなりすまし、監視を目的とした情報収集活動などをやめるよう要請している (書状: PDF、 The Guardian の記事)。
この件は LAPD がソーシャルメディア上での偽アカウントやなりすましによる監視活動を警官に認めていることや、監視活動をソーシャルメディア調査企業に依頼していることを Brennan Center for Justice などが報じたことを受けたものだ。
Meta では警官に…