Why the U.K. Condemned Facebook for Fuelling Fake News
If there remained any doubt that Facebook’s business practices intentionally compromise users’ privacy and recklessly undermine democratic norms, it was put to rest on Monday, when the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British House of Commons issued a hundred-and-eight-page report, incongruously titled “Disinformation and ‘fake news.’ ”
In a drama that played out over a few days in November, the committee’s chair, Damian Collins, a Tory M.P., had outwitted Facebook’s legal team when he summoned an American app developer named Ted Kramer to Parliament. At the time, Kramer’s company, Six4Three, was embroiled in a lawsuit with Facebook, and the documents that he just happened to have access to while on a business trip to England—and whoch Collins just happened to know about—were obtained during the discovery process.
Källa: Why the U.K. Condemned Facebook for Fuelling Fake News
TED: Mobiltelefonernas antropologi
Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He’s made some unexpected discoveries along the way.
TED: Det enkla och geniala i god grafik
In a talk that’s part history lesson, part love letter to graphics, information designer Tommy McCall traces the centuries-long evolution of charts and diagrams — and shows how complex data can be sculpted into beautiful shapes. ”Graphics that help us think faster, or see a book’s worth of information on a single page, are the key to unlocking new discoveries,” McCall says.
TED: Framtidens nyheter – virtuell verklighet
What if you could experience a story with your entire body, not just with your mind? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with emerging virtual reality technology to put the audience inside the story. The result is an evocative experience that de la Peña hopes will help people understand the news in a brand new way.
Lästips: Konsten att fånga en bedragare
De kallas för ”catfish” då du stjäl någons bilder, profil och sedan tre kontakt med andra. Det här är historien om hur en catfish spårades upp av offret.
When Max Benwell found out someone was using his photos to approach women online, he decided to track down the trickster – setting up a fake Instagram account and changing his gender on Tinder along the way
Illustrations by Gabriel Alcala. Design by Sam Morris and Juweek Adolphe
Warning: some of the language quoted in this piece may be triggering for people who have experienced abuse online.
Last year, I found out someone was using my photos to catfish women. He stole dozens of my online photos – including selfies, family photos, baby photos, photos with my ex – and, pretending to be me, he would then approach women and spew a torrent of abuse at them.
It took me months to track him down, and now I’m about to call him. I’m nervous, so much so that I have been putting it off for weeks.
Källa: How to catch a catfisher
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