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The fix for Facebook is NOT a different PLATFORM

An article by Roger McNamee titled “How to Fix Facebook - Before it fixes us” does a great job of describing the problems created by Facebook or any other platforms working in the same way, but contradicts itself when it proposes certain kinds of regulatory fixes.

When software turns churches from sanctuary to surveillance agents

There are the churches you do NOT want to enter if you care about digital rights, or even just privacy.

That collapse brought by Facebook, and its Whatsapp/Telegram corollary

If the research is any indication, writes Dr Raynes-Goldie, Facebook and other social media make people “feel inadequate or maybe even a bit depressed”. Why, and how? The answer, as they say “is complicated”, but one part of it is especially fascinating, and everybody should be aware of it.

Most absurd and invasive things done by tech platforms

This is my own, personal selection of the “most absurd and invasive, but TRUE things done by tech platforms”(*):

That time that Facebook declared (again) that it is a Sovereign State

In case you missed it when it first appeared, please enjoy this interesting paragraph from Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal challenges for 2018”:

On Facebook, it's OK to be anti-you and your beliefs

An article about Facebook published last summer is a great read, but the reason why it is great may not be immediately evident: