America’s Online Privacy Problems are Much Bigger than TikTok
From today’s Washington Post: For a brief moment in a five-hour House hearing on Thursday, TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew let his frustration show. Asked if TikTok was prepared to…
Unions at The Ringer and Gimlet Media announce their first contracts
From today’s New York Times: Unions representing employees at two prominent podcasting companies owned by Spotify, the audiostreaming giant, announced Wednesday that they had ratified their first labor contracts. The…
U.S. Files Suit Against Facebook, Claiming It Illegally Crushed Competition
From today’s New York Times: The Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states accused Facebook on Wednesday of becoming a social media monopoly by buying up its rivals to…
Facebook Halts Advertising Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints and Lawsuits
From today’s New York Times: After years of criticism, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would stop allowing advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of…
The Cambridge Analytica-Facebook Scandal and the Coming Data Bust
From today’s New York Times: The queasy truth at the heart of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, which is so far the company’s defining disgrace of 2018, is that its genesis…
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Cambridge Analytica CEO Suspended, Involved in Hacking American Elections
From National Public Radio News: Cambridge Analytica has suspended its CEO, Alexander Nix. The London-based company, which is accused of using data from 50 million Facebook users to influence the…
LA Times Newsroom Votes on Whether to Unionize, Tronc tries to suppress it
Here is an object lesson in why workers at the LA Times newsroom voted to unionize. Below is the “story” that appears in the LA Times about this historically significant…
Work Productivity: Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting.
From today’s New York Times by Susan Dynarski: Step into any college lecture hall and you are likely to find a sea of students typing away at open, glowing laptops…