Tag: Facebook
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Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?
14 September 2017
Authors: Philip Howard
I spoke to the Atlantic for this story about regulating political advertising on Facebook. Experts seem to agree on two principles with respect to free speech and tech company ...
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Five Pieces You Should Probably Read On: Fake News and Filter Bubbles
27 January 2017
Authors: David Sutcliffe
This is the second post in a series that will uncover great writing by faculty and students at the Oxford Internet Institute, things you should probably know, and ...
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Reuters: Facebook and Twitter’s real sin goes beyond spreading fake news
3 January 2017
Authors: Philip Howard
(This originally appeared as Facebook and Twitter’s real sin goes beyond spreading fake news.) Social media companies are taking heat for influencing the outcomes of the U.S. presidential election ...
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Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable
20 December 2016
Authors: Mark Graham
What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? You might think that the answer is that they are all technology companies. But actually it is that they all ...
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Is Social Media Killing Democracy?
15 November 2016
Authors: Philip Howard
Donald Trump in Reno, Nevada, by Darron Birgenheier (Flickr). This is the big year for computational propaganda — using immense data sets to manipulate public opinion over social media. Both the ...
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Judith: Working with data at Facebook
8 November 2016
Authors: Genevieve Juillet
Judith Dada was a member of our 2015-16 MSc group. She’s currently working at Facebook as a Client Solutions Manager in the Global Marketing Solutions team, responsible for consulting a range ...
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Creating transnational political links with euandi and Facebook
30 April 2014
Authors: Jonathan Bright
CAPTION Just wanted to put up a quick plug for the euandi voting advice application [VAA] which has recently been launched by the European University Institute. I was one of the 100 ...
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Why social data isn’t always a reliable indicator
19 February 2014
Authors: Josh Cowls
“What social data can tell you: pretty much everything” proclaimed Azeem Azhar, founder of PeerIndex, in a popular post on… Read more Why social data isn’t always a reliable indicator
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“Twitter says…” – Can big social data tell us about public opinion?
28 January 2014
Authors: Josh Cowls
“Like Noah’s ark, (there was) every kind of creature in every walk of life. They included a town wit, a grave… Read more “Twitter says…” – Can big social data ...
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Breaking news in a connected world
30 June 2013
Authors: Taha Yasseri
The bitterness of the tragedy is the same, what has changed is the way that information spreads. I heard about the Boston Marathon Bombing, first when I was preparing to go ...
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Your Voice–Your Vote?
7 June 2012
Authors: Manuel Schaeffer
Facebook is updating its privacy policy and its users can vote which policy version they actually want to have. Considering the torrent of criticism about Facebook’s general approach to privacy, that ...
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Network Effects–We Missed the Inframarginals
2 May 2012
Authors: Yonatan Moskowitz
When discussing the internet, the economic concept that seems to have made the largest dispersion into popular discourse is the concept of ‘network effects’. “Facebook is unconquerable because of ...
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Losing a Grip on Your Facebook Account? You’re Not the Only One
30 April 2012
Authors: Neil Basu
Having a Facebook page is becoming more and more of a liability. Surely we’ve heard it all before, though. Journalists, authors, bloggers, and even occasionally incredulous Masters’ students love ...
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Facebook’s IPO–Outsourcing the push to shrink privacy
6 February 2012
Authors: Yonatan Moskowitz
Facebook has been accused of shrinking the public’s “right to be let alone.” Soon they will be able to call on shareholders to demand that the government leave Facebook ...
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What you can and can’t get from Facebook
25 November 2010
Authors: Bernie Hogan
I have had several interesting requests for my NameGen program, including the much maligned desktop application that is not really active development (pending future grant money). What is interesting ...
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Facebook’s “Download your Information” reviewed
10 November 2010
Authors: Bernie Hogan
As part of Facebook’s march to capture as much of your life as possible while making you feel okay about it, last month they announced a “Download your Data” ...
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