An inspiring - and fascinating - talk into how a simple feature put the Observer journalist on the trail of the biggest Facebook scandal.
A collection of 165 posts
After Christchurch: how do we curtail the spread of video from atrocities?
The Christchurch attack was a terrorist event for the social media age. We need to address this situation on multiple levels to minimise the harm done.
Facebook's treatment of its content moderators: another attempt to avoid paying the costs of scale
Casey Newton has talked to many of Facebook's outsourced content moderators - and the picture is appalling.
The Zuckerberg Obfuscation
Like all the post produced by Mark Zuckerberg’s team, the recent anniversary post was carefully written to obfuscate a core issue.
A translation of elements of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook anniversary post from Zuck to English
Let me just clarify a few points in Zuckerberg's anniversary address…
The predictable villain at the heart of digital media's woes
For all the discussion about venture capital, and ad rates, and other scapegoats for tough time digital media's going through - a familiar company carries some of the blame.
Facebook's data harvesting app killed by Apple — taking Facebook's internal apps with it
Facebook gets caught abusing Apple's Enterprise Developer Program - and the consequences wreak havoc amongst its employees
Facebook getting more involved in journalism is still a bad idea
Do we really want to turn Facebook into an editorial beast?