周一，亚历克斯·琼斯跌到了谷底。在一系列不温不火的惩戒行动后，三大科技平台从周日深夜开始几乎一致行动，Infowars的主持人轻松地回避了这些行动。结果是，一位在互联网上大受欢迎的阴谋论表演者发现，他的影响力大幅下降。

亚历克斯·琼斯的大去平台化始于上周，当时Spotify和Stitcher从各自的网络中删除了Infowars播客(Spotify最初删除了一些剧集，然后才删除了整个剧集。）周日晚上，苹果也采取了同样的做法，将他的播客从iTunes中删除，因为他违反了禁止仇恨言论的规定。

苹果的这一举动几乎立即引发了一连串类似的举动。Facebook删除了琼斯的网页，理由是他一再发表仇恨言论。YouTube紧随其后，终止了一个拥有240万订户的账户。接着是品特蕾丝。

到那天结束时，Infowars还有三个主要的数字平台可供使用：开放网络、Twitter及其Android和iOS原生应用程序。琼斯在给《*****》的短信中说：“你站在主流媒体历史的错误一边了。”你**了整个国家，现在你要为此付出代价。”

长期以来，平台不仅因为托管琼斯，而且因为使用社交功能和推荐算法为他找到了大量受众而受到批评。但上个月，在CNN的奥利弗·达西（Oliver Darcy）在记者和新闻源高管的一次会议上向Facebook提出了一个相对直截了当的问题后，科技公司面临的压力加剧了：该公司如何在为Infowars提供一个庞大且不断增长的平台的同时，声称对打击错误信息持认真态度？

“不同的出版商有非常不同的观点，”这是当时负责新闻提要的约翰·黑格曼给达西的回答。但这一答案只会促使更多人关注Facebook自相矛盾的政策。接下来的一周，马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）通过捍卫大屠杀否认者的权利，在信息战问题上摸索出了一个答案，而Facebook发现自己正处于另一场公共关系危机之中。

最终是仇恨言论，而不是错误信息，让琼斯从Facebook上被炒鱿鱼。但是，对琼斯在社交网络上的帖子进行仔细审查，是永远经不起仔细审查的。令人不安的是，他的许多粉丝被发现威胁并实施了现实世界的暴力。今年4月，在一次鲜为人知的事件中，他在Facebook上多次使用反变性的诽谤语，而且似乎根本没有因此受到纪律处分。

直到周一，科技公司的政策似乎为琼斯提供了比桑迪·胡克（Sandy Hook）受害者家属更多的保护，其中一人为了躲避琼斯追随者的骚扰而七次搬家(琼斯多年来一直在宣扬**伪造桑迪胡克大屠杀的谎言，以此作为拿走他们**的借口。）

在未来的日子里，关于琼斯肯定会有更多的话要说。对于科技公司来说，问题不在于如何对待琼斯——答案已经明确了一段时间——而在于如何对待每个人抄袭他的剧本。错误信息和仇恨言论在他们的平台上迅速传播，**了数以百万计的观众。这些平台应该好好思考一下为什么会这样，以及它们可以做些什么。

民主

Facebook给银行：给我们你的数据，我们会给你我们的用户

据艾米丽·格雷泽、迪帕·塞塔拉曼和安娜·玛丽亚·安德里奥蒂斯报道，Facebook一直在与银行商讨将客户的财务信息引入其系统。Facebook极力回击，称这些数据只会用于聊天机器人。

战略家们对Facebook延迟批准拉美裔政治广告发出警告

迈克尔·谢勒（Michael Scherer）和伊丽莎白·德沃斯金（Elizabeth Dwoskin）报道说，针对讲西班牙语的Facebook用户的广告正面临延误，这给政治广告商带来了麻烦：

New procedures adopted by Facebook in resp***e to Russian meddling and allegati*** of racially discriminatory ad practices often require several days for the company to review political ads targeted to ethnic groups, while ads that target broader audiences are approved immediately, said strategists for three liberal organizati***, Priorities USA, Latino Victory and Win Dem PAC.

Another group that supports c***ervative causes has experienced the same delays when buying ads that target Spanish-speaking or Hispanic audiences on Facebook, according to an official there, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

Facebook禁止的几个群组与六周前链接到俄罗斯的推特账号有很大的相似性

据Elizabeth Dwoskin、Tony Romm和Craig Timberg报道，Facebook发现了公共推特和Facebook账户之间的相似之处，这些账户后来被发现是一项协调影响力活动的一部分。但该公司花了相当长的时间将它们联系在一起：

In May, Twitter turned over to Congress documents describing the activities of more than a thousand accounts it tied to the Internet Research Agency, the Russian organization that spread misinformation in the 2016 election. Congress publicly released the documents in mid-June, and Facebook began to scrape them for clues to shadowy operators on its network, said Andy Stone, a company spoke**an.

Facebook’s engineers, he said, were not able to tie the information to corresponding Facebook pages, even though some shared a name and posted similar content, two shared a creation date — and one had an identical logo. Stone said that the trove lacked key technical details, such as an IP address, phone number or email, which made it hard to establish a clearer link.

这名研究人员将反***内容映射到Facebook上。她说这比她预期的“糟糕得多”。

以实玛利。Daro报告说，尽管Facebook经常吹嘘其利用人工智能消除仇恨言论的能力，但它在删除反***帖子方面进展缓慢。我期待着阅读他在这里提到的论文：

Squire, an Elon University computer science professor, ****yzed hundreds of far-right Facebook groups over a 10-month period to map their connecti*** for a research paper, “Network Analysis of Anti-Muslim Groups on Facebook,” that she will present at the Social Informatics conference in St. Peter**urg in September. While she is no stranger to online vitriol, she said the anti-Muslim rhetoric on Facebook particularly “alarmed” her.

“I’m looking at these and I’m just thinking, if you substituted any other religion, it’s so bad no one would think that this is OK,” Squire told BuzzFeed News. “Why is this still up? What is going on?”

立法者就“令人深感不安”的中国审查项目向谷歌施压

周五，一个由美国六个党派组成的跨党派小组致函谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai，要求就谷歌为中国开发一款经过审查的新闻应用程序的计划****。

一代人在没有谷歌、Facebook或Twitter的中国长大

《****》发现，从未使用过谷歌、Facebook或Twitter的人对此并不特别好奇。

作为网络威胁的宣传活动在中期选举中肆虐

保护竞选活动免受网络威胁的工作仍然主要落在候选人身上——还有很多工作要做，WHYY报道：

Every month for the last 18 months, [Sen. Kamala Harris’] office has discovered on average between three and five fake Facebook profiles pretending to be hers, according to a Harris aide. It’s unclear who creates the pages, which are often designed to mislead American voters about the ambitious Democratic senator’s policies and positi***.

在别处

Facebook现在是美国主要的移动浏览器，在许多州拥有10%以上的市场份额

人们正在浏览开放的网络——从Facebook内部！

While Facebook’s use as a mobile browser was still far outweighed by Safari in most cases, due to the dominance of Apple’s iOS in the U.S., the social networking app has achieved mobile browser market share of around 10 percent in many states, Mixpanel found.

技术工人挣的钱够买房子吗？

在Facebook，工资中位数为24万美元，51%的员工表示他们在湾区买不起房子。

对于记者来说，是时候删除你的旧推文了吗？

可能

发射

Facebook正在重新设计网页，以便更容易与当地企业互动

为您的企业创建页面的老理由是通过新闻提要获得有机宣传。但是现在的新闻源是关于你的朋友的，破坏了有机宣传，所以页面需要一个新的理由。Facebook的最新答案是基本上作为一个小型企业的免费****者，一个la Squarespace，在页面上填充行动按钮，并通过广告赚钱。至少从效用的角度来看，这一切对我来说都是相当脆弱的。

拿

我们不能注销的高中

老詹妮弗说，推特是高中(高中永远不会结束，我回应道：打保龄球是为了喝汤。）

Clay Shirky, one of the shrewdest internet theorists around, has noted that the faster the medium is, the more emotional it gets. Twitter, as we know, is pretty fast, and therefore runs pretty hot. (Emotional tweets, research has shown, travel more swiftly than anodyne ones.) We often become creatures of our limbic systems when we tweet. Our self-regulation deserts us (been there); our prefrontal cortex, resp***ible for executive function and impulse control, goes offline; we become reward-seeking Scud missiles, addicts in search of a fix.

We become, in other words, teenagers, who are notoriously poor models of self-regulation — in large part because their prefrontal cortices are still developing and their dopamine circuits are pretty busy seeking stimulation. The psychologist Laurence Steinberg describes adolescents as “cars with powerful accelerators and weak brakes.” The neuroscientist BJ Casey deems them “more Kirk than Spock.”

Facebook和Instagram的时间管理工具没有抓住重点

西蒙尼·斯托尔佐夫说，“花得好的时间”这一概念已经过时，并正在迅速失去其影响力：

“Time well spent” is having its Kendall Jenner Pepsi moment. What began as a social movement has become a marketing strategy. Even Mark Zuckerberg’s mission for 2018 is “to make sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent,” a clear reference to Harris’ work.

But it’s easy to co-opt “time well spent” as a value once you’ve already captured the attention of 2.2 billion users. When companies like Facebook check the time-well-spent box with a few co**etic design changes, they get credit for putting a bandaid on the symptom without addressing the disease.

最后。。。

“Snapchat变形障碍”：整形外科医师们不顾一切地想模仿自己的**

目前最热门的新疾病是Snapchat变形障碍：

Doctors have spotted a trend of people bringing in their own selfies, usually edited with a **artphone application, and asking to look more like their photos, according to an article recently published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology.

The phenomenon is known as “Snapchat dy**orphia,” and it’s causing widespread concern among experts who are worried about its negative effect on people’s self-esteem and its potential to trigger body dy**orphic disorder, a mental illness classified on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum.

身体畸形是一个严重的问题，我们不应该轻视它。另一方面，我不确定“Snapchat变形障碍”——大致定义为“希望在照片中看起来更好”——是否真的是一种新现象。

至少，直到人们开始要求狗的脸。

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