Number of Posts: 7
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Extremists driven off Facebook and Twitter targeting smaller firms
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Small social media networks don't have the same resources as big social media platforms to fight terrorists. Because platforms such as Facebook or Twitter can quickly block accounts supporting terrorism, extremists need to find other "smaller" platforms.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand using a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s)
Facebook will beam the web to Africa - a vital first step in helping people connect
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, smartphone, threat
Summary | Facebook, together with the French company Eutelsat, will put a satellite in orbit in order to give the internet to millions of sub-Saharan Africans. However, when you introduce social media into a poor country with low literacy, a country that does not know anything about free speech and freedom of expression, the consequences can be bad; it can lead to an explosion of hate speech (e.g. Myanmar, Lesbos). Therefore, connection alone is not the right solution.
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Please, Facebook, don't make me speak to your awful chatbots
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Chatbots are the future! Soon, you'll be able to do everything thanks to chatbots (e.g. order a pizza, schedule a meeting). With Facebook, the idea is to introduce third-party bots into Messenger. Existing chatbots are not perfect yet; they are still slow and don't always understand everything. Facebook's goal is to create something flawless, a platform for your phone where you'll be able to book a table, pay a bill, order a cab, check the weather, and manage your relationships.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg speaking in front of a giant screen displaying the Messenger platform, photograph of engineer Charles Lawson lighting a robot's cigarette, screenshot of a tweet, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying WeChat.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, text, Twitter
Monitor monikers: why what we call our robots matters
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, threat
Summary | It is really odd how frequently artificial intelliigence assistants are anthropomorphized. They usually get a human-like name: Alexa, Cortana, Siri, or Amy and Andrew Ingram. This is in line with the larger project of chatbots, which is to make the internet more personalized. This trend to make everything technological more intuitive however suppresses critical thinking and is dangerous.
Image Description | Allstar image of the talking computer from the film 2001: a Space Odyssey.
Fighting fake news: societies using technology to search for truth
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 0.0.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Many countries are trying to combat fake news and urging Facebook to find ways of combatting fake news. They influence elections by deceiving people and that is a great problem. It is nearly impossible to identify fake news with a program, it takes a human. Facebook is now allowing users to flag suspicious content, which is then reviewed and if deemed fake, labeled as such and displayed with a lower priority. Fake news are not taken off of Facebook because that would be censorship.
Image Description | Shutterstock images of protesters against fake news.
Image Tags | female(s), text
Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, threat
Summary | Facebook is apparently looking into ways to combat fake news spreading on their platform. They have had to face much criticism because of this. Users have started getting little survey questions after clicking on news media links posted on Facebook asking them to evaluate how trustworthy the article is. It is not known what Facebook will do with the results of this poll.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on various screens and a tweet.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), Twitter
2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | 2016 has been a bad year for Facebook. Many scandals surrounded the company. It became clear that Facebook is now longer just an advertizing machine with access to almost 2 billion people world-wide but that it also curates what news media most of these people perceive - whether Facebook wants to accept this or not. They no longer just have to deal with sensoring nudity and human rights violations content but also fake news. While Zuckerberg denies that the fake news bubbles have influenced the presidential elections, his company at the same time makes tons of money selling exactly this persuasive power to advertisers.
Image Description | The Facebook reaction emojis and dislike (thumb-down) emojis, glasses in front of like buttons, and a man holding a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
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