Social Media Club Zürich

16/05/2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adamshawphotography_meta-is-using-your-instagram-photos-to-train-activity-7196481069292867584-KniY

06/05/2024

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1787239378927993073

24/04/2024

https://spyglass.org/the-end-of-tiktok/

Ban or not, this is the end of TikTok as we know it

06/04/2024

WHEN PRODUCT MARKETS BECOME COLLECTIVE TRAPS: THE CASE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Leonardo Bursztyn Benjamin R. Handel Rafael Jimenez Christopher Roth
Working Paper 31771 http://www.nber.org/papers/w31771
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
October 2023

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

27/03/2024

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiktok-ban-data-privacy-security/

Proposed restrictions on TikTok would be “security theater” in the face of the staggering amounts of data that foreign and domestic tech companies collect

21/11/2023

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/21/1083760/meta-transparency-research-database-nick-clegg/

There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.

20/11/2023

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence

Members were moved to other AI projects.

19/11/2023

26/10/2023

Artists Allege Meta’s AI Data Deletion Request Process Is a ‘Fake PR Stunt’
This summer, Meta began taking requests to delete data from its AI training. Artists say this new system is broken and fake. Meta says there is no opt-out program.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-artificial-intelligence-data-deletion/

04/09/2023

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/30/how-to-stop-meta-from-using-personal-data-to-train-generative-ai-.html

Facebook users can now delete their personal information found in the third-party sources that Meta uses to train generative artificial intelligence models.

24/08/2023

deadline friday

The application to collect part of Meta's data privacy settlement is simple, requiring only a few minutes to fill out.

23/08/2023

https://email.projectliberty.io/child-online-safety-a-world-tour

Globally, one out of every three internet users is a child under the age of 18, and screen usage has increased dramatically in the last few years (youth in the US are spending between five and eight hours a day staring at a screen).

02/08/2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/meta-ending-news-availability-permanently-1.6924370

Social media giant Meta says it has officially begun ending news availability on its platforms in Canada starting Tuesday.

01/08/2023

"Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech"
"The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research."

The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social platform with its research.

27/06/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/upshot/social-media-teen-mental-health.html

Parents, scientists and the surgeon general are worried. But there isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is.

27/06/2023

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876

Earlier this month, Meta showed staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter.

14/06/2023

🚨 BREAKING:

~40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours.

Here’s what’s going on 👇

“🚨 BREAKING: ~40% of Reddit is going dark for 48 hours. Here’s what’s going on 👇”

05/05/2023

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1654153314433486851

“Ostromizing democracy: To counter antidemocratic libertarians, we need an analytical assessment of group problem-solving. https://t.co/yOi5auIn82 3/”

06/02/2023

“The internet keeps surprising me with human creativity and variation. And I think as long as we're capable of doing that, that's a helpful counterweight and counterbalance to all the many terrible things.”

Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, and director of UMass’s Initiative for Digital Public

06/02/2023

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/02/01/humans-code-internet/events/the-takeaway/

From the Pop-Up Ad to Criminal Sentencing Algorithms, Software—And the People Behind It—Shape Our Lives.

29/12/2022

https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/facebook-addiction-increases-depression-severity-among-people-who-are-already-depressed-64586

A longitudinal study found that the addictive use of Facebook can increase depression severity among people diagnosed with depression. The findings ...

27/12/2022

meta super bowl commercial explained

Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

12/12/2022

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/

No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

04/12/2022

meanwhile,

Or ten times Mark Zuckerberg je**ed me around

24/11/2022

https://twitter.com/curve_me_tender/status/1595556176338751488

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19/11/2022

https://twitter.com/mosquitocapital/status/1593541177965678592