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
Apr 15 The law that made Facebook what it is today By Frank LoMonte, The Conversation The Communications Decency Act was passed in 1996, seven years before the debut of MySpace. It helped online publishing grow – and to escape consequences for the way users might be harmed. Continue reading
Apr 11 ‘This does not reflect America’: Congressman presses Mark Zuckerberg on lack of diversity among Facebook leadership By Joshua Barajas "We can do better than that, Mr. Zuckerberg," Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina told the tech executive. Continue reading
Apr 11 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica By Associated Press Mark Zuckerberg says his Facebook data was included in the personal information sold to malicious third parties, a reference to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has rocked his company over the past several weeks. Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill… Continue reading
Apr 11 What we learned from Zuckerberg’s testimony, and what we still don’t know By Erica R. Hendry Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened his testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill with an apology — one that he’s repeated often since first acknowledging the firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly used personal information from as many as 87… Continue reading