Instagram
Hacking your phone to hack your Instagram
How - and why - do people hack social media accounts?
freshness
Recency is killing the web - and we'll all lose if that happens
Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.
5 on Facebook
5 on Facebook – August 15th
Five links about Facebook and its impact that are worth your time today.
publishing technology
Content Management Systems: could Vox Media make build a software business alongside its content operation?
Vox Media is trying to make money through licensing its publishing platform Chorus. A smart move from Vox - but is adopting it a smart move for publishers?
Instagram
Hackers harvesting Instagram accounts
This month has seen a spate of connected Instagram account hacking - with no clear objective. Why?
Facebook
Facebook traffic to publishers is gone - and Campbell Brown just erected its tombstone
Reports from Australia make it clear the traffic from Facebook is a thing of the past - and that Zuckerberg never took it seriously in the first place.
Facebook
Facebook distorts everything around the idea of engagement
Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy, has some compelling theories on how Facebook became whaat it is.
alt right media
Accusing a political figure of facilitating child rape does not violate Facebook's community standards
Facebook has community standards. They're just very, very low.
X (Twitter)
Twitter's "them and us" problem
Twitter has fallen a very long way from its roots as the place where you went to find out what was happening - and to discuss it. If it's just about an elite telling us their thoughts, does it really matter all?