Category: Internet

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter helped right-wing populists take power. Can they now help rein them in?
Please Help ZNet Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation Photo by 360b/Shutterstock Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their Read more…
A new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against their own citizens

His farewell as CEO recognizes the reality his enormous personal wealth so contemptuously mocks
By just tinkering with that power, by conducting little ‘experiments’, it can make or break news businesses

A sore-loser president is promoting a last-minute assault on the underpinnings of discourse on the web
The curious co-existence on Netflix of ‘Emily in Paris’ and ‘The Social Dilemma’ reveals the choices that are not available to us
The global anti-monopoly actions show that what we are witnessing is a tectonic shift in the way big tech companies and their owners are being viewed
Is there another path we could take that might allow us to harness the benefits of these huge services, while also blunting their negative effects?
Hundreds of individual accounts linked to Indigenous, environmental, and social justice organizations were suspended from Facebook because they were co-hosts of an online Facebook event targeting the Coastal GasLink pipeline majority funder.