Oct 7, 2021
Read Chapter 3 on free speech
Should this be allowed?
dig @8.8.8.8 facebook.com
An interview. She is the Ed Snowden of Facebook. www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03.
(No link because they are 100% paywalled, but Loyola does have a subscription.)
"Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse," the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook's internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves."
In May, Adam Mosseri [Instagram head] said he believes Facebook was late to realizing there were drawbacks to connecting people in such large numbers
Instead of referencing their own data showing the negative effects of Instagram, Facebook executives in public have often pointed to studies from the Oxford Internet Institute that have shown little correlation between social-media use and depression.
At a congressional hearing this March, Mr. Zuckerberg defended the company against criticism from lawmakers about plans to create a new Instagram product for children under 13. When asked if the company had studied the app's effects on children, he said, "I believe the answer is yes."
A Cory Doctorow post! onezero.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8.
So Facebook has said:
One of these is probably false. But which? Hint: advertisers would be very angry to learn the answer.
But the other side of all this is that maybe Facebook is sliding towards irrelevance faster than we think:www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files.html.
Supreme Court cases
Antoine Jones
Melvin Skinner
Riley/Wurie
Carpenter
Geofence warrants
ECPA
Councilman
Warshak
Social Credit
Facial Recognition
Tinder
Transactional Privacy
Online advertising
Location information
Pregnancy
Insurance