May 10 House Democrats release more than 3,500 Facebook ads created by Russians By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The intelligence committee Democrats released a sampling of the ads purchased by Russia’s Internet Research Agency last year, but they are now releasing the full cache of ads that Facebook officials turned over to the panel after acknowledging in September… Continue reading
May 09 Watch 9:17 Why we love to like junk news that reaffirms our beliefs By Miles O'Brien Facebook is exquisitely designed to feed our addiction to hyper-partisan content. In this world, fringe players who are apt to be more strident end up at the top of our news feeds, burying the middle ground. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien… Continue watching
May 02 Miles To Go podcast takes a behind-the-scenes tour of junk news By Fedor Kossakovski Science correspondent Miles O’Brien and series producer Cameron Hickey have been researching junk news on the internet since the election, uncovering important storylines close to home. Continue reading
May 02 Cambridge Analytica, firm at center of Facebook privacy scandal, to shut down By Associated Press Wednesday's shutdown comes as the firm, which has been linked to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, is losing clients and facing legal fees from the Facebook case. Continue reading
Apr 25 Watch 11:20 How Facebook's news feed can be fooled into spreading misinformation By Miles O'Brien Facebook’s news feed algorithm learns in great detail what we like, and then strives to give us more of the same -- and it's that technology that can be taken advantage of to spread junk news like a virus. Science… Continue watching
Apr 25 What is the NewsTracker? By Cameron Hickey As the country was reacting to the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election, concerns soared about the problems of misinformation or so-called “Fake News” spreading across social media. To understand the scale and shape of a problem that was incredibly… Continue reading
Apr 24 Watch 5:54 Schools wrestle with protecting student privacy on Facebook Facebook remains the center of attention over concerns about data privacy and sharing. How are schools reckoning with how they use the social media platform and what data is shared? John Yang talks with Benjamin Herold of Education Week on… Continue watching
Apr 24 Facebook releases its 27-page list of banned activities on the service By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press The updated community standards will mirror the rules its 7,600 moderators use to review questionable posts, then decide if they should be pulled off Facebook. And sometimes whether to call in the authorities. Continue reading
Apr 15 Watch 25:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode April 15, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, April 15, President Trump has another complicated weekend following missile strikes in Syria and as Washington readies for former FBI director James Comey’s new book. Also, while the art of photography has undergone a radical… Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch 5:01 Can you really delete Facebook data? By PBS News Hour As its co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress about a data, Facebook gave users access to the data it had shared with data brokers and advertisers, including login information, deleted friends and even offline activity. Brian Chen of… Continue watching