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Media On Twitter, Hate Speech Bounded Only by a Character Limit close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Twitter, which helped enable the outsider candidacy of Donald J. Trump, has hosted abusive clashes between voters. Credit John Locher/Associated Press If you go by what some Twitter users have to say, it’s a wonder…
Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…
With a new tool, The Marshall Project has turned the internet into a tipline By Benjamin Mullin • September 30, 2016 Last updated by Benjamin Mullin September 30, 2016 a id=”dcl_comment_link” class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments a class=”comment_count” href=”#disqus_thread”> Comments Last month, Tom Meagher was on vacation in Prague when he got an email from a tipster….
Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it. At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is…
Getty Images By Markets reporter Reporter Deep-pocketed suitors are reportedly dropping their bids for Twitter—a blow that could deal a hefty hit to the social media company’s shares, analysts said Thursday. Twitter Inc. TWTR, -20.10% dropped 20.1% to $19.87 Thursday, following a Recode report Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources, saying Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +0.23%…
September 12, 2016 10:31 a.m. After All That Complaint, Only 2 Percent of Twitter Users Turned Off the Algorithm By Brian Feldman Share Share Tweet Share Share Email Print Back in February, power users of Twitter were distraught to hear that Twitter would be introducing algorithmic sorting into its feed. Up until then, Twitter had…
Lawless forum site 4chan is going broke as ad sales dry up Members of the hack-tivist collective Anonymous once flocked to 4chan, the anonymous nature of which suited their clandestine needs. By Patrick Kulp2016-10-06 13:11:36 UTC Earlier this week, 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura hit the forum site’s users with some jarring news. The company is…
Tensions between Facebook and the news industry boiled over this week when the social media corporation censored a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam war photo, because it featured a naked child and violated site “community standards”. The dispute over the “napalm girl” image, which a Norwegian writer published in a post about historic warfare photography, ended Friday when…
There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday’s bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous, faltering web company designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, we now know that a Yahoo account is a toxic surveillance liability. Reuters’s Joseph Menn is reporting that just last year, Yahoo chose to comply…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of…