9月27日，最高**提名人布雷特·卡瓦诺（Brett Kavanaugh）在国会出庭，回答有关他实施***的指控。支持他的是他最好的朋友之一，乔尔·卡普兰，他也是Facebook的全球政策负责人。

我顺便记下了卡普兰的出席情况，并询问读者——特别是那些在Facebook轨道上的读者——他们对此有何看法。现在我们知道了。以下是《****》的迈克·艾萨克：

Mr. Kaplan’s surprise appearance prompted anger and shock among many Facebook employees, some of whom said they took his action as a tacit show of support for Judge Kavanaugh — as if it were an endorsement from Facebook itself.

The unrest quickly spilled over onto Facebook’s internal message boards, where hundreds of workers have since posted about their concerns, according to current and former employees. To quell the hubbub, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, last Friday explained in a widely attended staff meeting that Mr. Kaplan was a close friend of Judge Kavanaugh’s and had broken no company rules, these people said.

《华尔街日报》的迪帕·西塔拉曼（Deepa Seetharaman）也收到了一组类似的文件，她在自己的故事中得出了类似的结论。

对于Facebook来说，关于卡普兰的争议代表了一个新的划分点，这家公司仍在努力应对Instagram创始人的意外离职和其历史上最大的数据泄露。只有当涉及到卡普兰争议时，我才不清楚该公司的下一步行动是什么。

C组似乎对卡普兰的出席感到恼火，但最初对员工的担忧不屑一顾(员工有多担心？在艾萨克的故事中，我最喜欢的细节是，他们进入卡普兰的日历，了解到他实际上并没有像卡普兰最初所说的那样，将27日作为个人的一天。日历后来被更新，以反映这确实是一个私人的日子。）

在平时，Facebook员工会请假支持好友的**职位提名，这似乎不值得评论。但这不是一个普通的时代，这也不是一个普通的听证会。在一些Facebook员工中，卡瓦诺的原告人数激增，卡普兰对他的朋友的支持成为了工作场所的一个问题。

正如艾萨克指出的那样，卡普兰之所以被聘用，正是因为他与保守派世界有着深厚的联系。Facebook面临着各种各样的联邦调查和监管威胁，它需要两党的盟友来驾驭这些水域——特别是现在。到目前为止，卡普兰的保守主义一直被视为公司的资产。

现在仍然是这样——在Facebook的通信团队中，我想现在的某个地方，人们会对一个新闻周期感到些许兴奋，这个新闻周期的中心是它的高管们站出来为一位保守的同事辩护，对抗他们更自由的员工。但这也可能是一种负担，特别是如果这些员工中的许多人借此机会离开公司，到一个没有战略必要与特朗普**和好的组织工作。

安德鲁·博斯沃思（Andrew Bosworth）是Facebook的13年老手，也是扎克伯格的知己，他最初似乎鼓励员工在出门时遵循自己的原则。艾萨克又来了：

“If you need to change teams, companies or careers to make sure your day-to-day life matches your passi***, we will be sad to see you go, but we will understand,” Mr. Bosworth wrote. “We will support you with any path you choose. But it is your resp***ibility to choose a path, not that of the company you work for.”

但在员工强烈反对后，博兹收回了自己的言论。”我在应该倾听的时候说了话，这是一个很大的错误，”据报道，他在一篇内部帖子中写道。另一次会议定于周五举行，高层管理人员将听取员工的担忧。Facebook的问题在于，除了倾听之外，还不清楚Facebook到底能做什么。

民主

大黑客：中国如何利用一个微小的芯片渗透美国公司

每个人都在谈论乔丹·罗伯逊（Jordan Robertson）和迈克尔·莱利（Michael Riley）的故事。他们声称，中国间谍通过在服务器中**微型芯片，危害了美国的技术供应链，这些服务器已经覆盖了包括苹果和亚马逊在内的近30家美国公司。苹果和亚马逊都以最强烈的措辞否认了这一说法，深入探讨了为什么他们认为彭博社的说法是错误的。这是一系列非同寻常的事件——我希望我们能学到更多(Facebook似乎受到了黑客的轻微影响。）

彭斯呼吁谷歌放弃在中国的移动搜索项目

副总统呼吁谷歌放弃其在中国的野心——这是美国**对字母表的压力的重大升级。Bender和Dustin Volz报告：

In a speech that outlined the White House’s long list of frustrati*** and grievances with Beijing, Vice President Mike Pence called on companies to rec***ider business practices in the world’s second-largest economy that involve turning over intellectual property or “abetting Beijing’s oppression.”

“For example, Google should immediately end development of the Dragonfly app that will strengthen Communist Party censorship and compromise the privacy of Chinese customers,” Mr. Pence said in his speech at the Hudson Institute, a c***ervative, Washington-based think tank focused on security and economic issues.

报告发现，大多数与2016年虚假信息相关的推特账户仍然活跃

根据奈特基金会（Knight Foundation）的一项新研究，在总统选举期间传播虚假信息的账户中，近90%继续运作、传播或放大虚假故事：

Knight Foundation researchers examined milli*** of tweets and concluded that more than 80 percent of the accounts associated with the 2016 disinformation campaign are still posting — even after Twitter announced back in July that it had instituted a purge of fake accounts.

“The persistence of so many easily identified abusive accounts is difficult to square with any effective crackdown,” write authors Matthew Hindman of George Washington University and Vlad Barash of the social media ****ysis company Graphika.

我请Twitter回复，我得到的是：

“Firstly, this study was built using our public API and therefore does not take into account any of the acti*** we take to remove automated or spammy content and accounts from being viewed by people on Twitter. We do this proactively and at scale, every single day. Secondly, as a uniquely open service, Twitter is a vital source of real-time antidote to day-to-day falsehoods. We are proud of this use case and work diligently to ensure we are showing people context and a diverse range of perspectives as they engage in civic debate and conversati*** on our service.”

参议员呼吁联邦调查儿童应用程序

两名民主党人要求联邦贸易委员会审查数千个应用程序是否违反了儿童在线隐私法。詹妮弗·瓦伦蒂诺·德弗里斯和娜塔莎·辛格报道：

Senators Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday saying they were concerned that thousands of apps may “improperly track children and collect their personal information.”

The senators asked the agency to examine whether the apps, and the advertising companies they work with, were violating a federal law to protect children’s privacy online. The law requires sites and apps aimed at children under 13 to obtain verifiable permission from a parent before collecting personal details from a child like an email address, a precise location, a phone number or persistent digital ID codes that are used for behavioral advertising.

中国最大的社交网络如何打击假新闻

微信每个月都会发布最热门的谣言……所以它可以揭穿这些谣言。如果微信不是中国**的监督和宣传工具，这将是一个更令人振奋的发展！

欧洲正在围绕大数据的道德问题划定新的战线

欧盟数据保护主管乔瓦尼·布塔雷利（Giovanni Buttarelli）告诉TechCrunch，科技巨头正在藐视新的隐私法规，他不会再接受了：

“I did not appreciate the tsunami of legalistic notices landing on the account of milli*** of users, written in an obscure language, and many of them were entirely useless, and in a borderline even with spamming, to ask for unnecessary agreements with a new privacy policy,” he tells us. “Which, in a few cases, appear to be in full breach of the GDPR — not only in terms of spirit.”

He also professes himself “not surprised” about Facebook’s latest security debacle — describing the massive new data breach the company revealed on Friday as “business as usual” for the tech giant. And indeed for “all the tech giants” — none of whom he believes are making adequate investments in security.

在别处

Snap首席执行官设定了2019年的盈利目标，为员工制定了新的战略目标

根据亚历克斯·希思得到的一份6500字的备忘录，埃文·斯皮格尔希望Snap在2019年实现盈利(对我的竞争对手来说，这是一个让我嫉妒的重要日子！我也有信号，伙计们！）我将在一夜之间细细品味这一点，但现在，这里有一个有趣的、来自《明镜》的精彩细节：

Researchers at the University of Michigan found that Snapchat was second only to face-to-face communication when it comes to generating positive feelings:

Snapchat interacti*** are associated with more positive emoti*** that Facebook and other social technologies, the researchers say.

社交媒体分析平台Hootsuite探索销售：来源

Liana B.表示，Hootsuite是一个广泛使用的社交媒体管理平台，正在探索一项价值超过7.5亿美元的销售计划。贝克和卡尔·奥唐纳报道。

联合广告：Facebook病毒式发行商进入管理层

Facebook上最大的病毒式内容发布商之一显然濒临破产：

Its understanding of the sort of video content Facebook audiences want to watch enabled it to become the fourth-biggest publisher on the social network in August, according to data from the ****ytics company NewsWhip. Facebook recently said it would prioritise higher-quality news in users’ feeds.

Many viral publishers have struggled to translate their enormous reach into a profitable business model, owing to the high cost of making bespoke native ads. Sources in the advertising industry suggested many agencies had cut back their dealings with Unilad before Thursday.

Instagram首席运营官马恩·莱文：在创始人退出Facebook后，应用程序是安全的

前Instagram首席运营官、Facebook全球合作伙伴关系和业务发展部新任负责人玛恩·莱文（Marne Levine）上周在一次会议上简要谈到了她的前任老板离开公司的事。她承认这是“意外的”：

She added that, while the moment was unexpected, it was “only natural” that the founders, “whose vision… had fundamentally changed the way we connect and share,” would be thinking about what’s next after spending six years steering Instagram at Facebook. She pointed out that when the social media giant acquired Instagram, the photo-sharing platform had just 13 employees and “no business.” Today, it has more than a billion users and “a thriving and growing business” with more than two million active advertisers and more than 1,000 employees worldwide. “It’s is in a very different place,” she said.

当技术人员比你更了解你自己时

历史学家尤瓦尔·诺亚·哈拉里（Yuval Noah Harari）和《时代周刊》的共同创始人特里斯坦·哈里斯（Tristan Harris）与《连线》的主编尼古拉斯·汤普森（Nicholas Thompson）讨论了人工智能的未来。这里当然有很多值得深思的地方，但这只是一个令人难以置信的故事，讲述了当今思想领袖们是如何开会的：

YNH: Funnily enough, on an expedition to Antarctica, we were invited by the Chilean government to the Congress of the Future to talk about the future of humankind and one part of the Congress was an expedition to the Chilean base in Antarctica to see global warming with our own eyes. It was still very cold and there were so many interesting people on this expedition

TH: A lot of philosophers and Nobel laureates. And I think we particularly connected with Michael Sandel, who is a really amazing philosopher of moral philosophy.

那些每天在Instagram上发布同样内容的青少年

本周早些时候，Alyssa Bereznak在推特上发布了一组滑稽的Instagram账户，每天都发布相同的图片。事实证明，泰勒·洛伦兹已经在编写这个故事的一个版本，她今天发表了这个版本。这是令人愉快的：

And while these accounts post the same photo every day, their capti*** and Stories change. Some teenagers who run single-pic accounts use their page as a sort of diary or anonymous blog, posting about what’s happening in life and at school, or how they’re feeling. “I had to pack the whole day and today I was on an airplane for like 8 hours,” the owner of an account that posts the same photo of a watermelon every day wrote. “Ya girl graduated grade 8,” the owner of @same_picture_of_kun said. “Catch me being late to my first day of summer school,” they added on another pic.

Miranda, a 14-year-old who runs @same.picture.of.kumquat with two friends from her high school, said they started the account as a de-stressor and outlet. “It’s personal-life capti*** for not such a personal picture,” she said. “It takes the pressure off of having to post a pic of your face or something. We don’t have to edit any pics; the followers know what they’re getting. We can just post a quirky caption about our life at the moment and they relate.”

发射

Instagram的名牌让你更容易跟踪你遇到的人

WWW.THEVERGE.COM–分享

Instagram推出了Snapcodes的一个版本，让你可以通过拍摄人们独特的“姓名标签”来跟踪他们。更有趣的是，这里描述的测试将邀请大学生填写更完整的Instagram个人资料，包括他们的学校，然后，它将被添加到一个目录中，该学校的任何其他人都可以浏览。Facebook从一开始就在自我约束。

Instagram还添加了位置历史记录，这似乎是Instagram最终构建快照地图风格功能的一部分(乔什·康斯特恩推测，这是“关于服务本地广告的。”

雅虎与受IRC启发的雅虎重回信息时代

出于某种原因，雅虎还开发了一款新的信息应用程序？我什么都没有。

拿

金融、媒体和灾难性的信任崩溃（美元）

约翰·奥瑟斯（John Authers）发表了一篇长篇反思性文章，阐述了社交媒体是如何导致对新闻业的信任度下降的，以及在下一次金融危机期间这将是多么危险。悲伤而清醒：

All the most obvious policy resp***es come with dangers. Regulating social media from its current sick and ugly state would have advantages but would also be the thin end of a very long wedge. Greater transparency and political oversight for central banks might rebuild confidence but at the risk of politicising instituti*** we desperately need to maintain independence from politicians. And an overhaul of the prosecutorial system for white-collar crime, to avert the scandalous way so many miscreants escaped a reckoning a decade ago, might work wonders for bolstering public trust — but not if it led to scapegoating or show trials.

On one thing, I remain gloomily clear. Without trust in financial instituti*** themselves, or those who work in them, or the media who cover them, the next crisis could be far more deadly than the last. Just ask JP Morgan.

最后。。。

新的FiDi面食店以Instagram命名

去年6月，我写了一篇长篇特写，讲述了Instagram的流行如何将酒吧和餐厅转变成更加多彩、俗气、噱头的版本。如今，这一趋势已经得出了合乎逻辑的结论，纽约市一家面食餐厅将自己命名为Pastagram，并提出了其全部价值主张，即您可以拍摄其食物的照片：

But food isn’t entirely the point here. The Pastagram is really playing up the social media angle, promising “photogenic” details in all of its dishes as well as bright, teal decor in the space. “Every single detail is thought of as to be the most photogenic as possible, catering to a customer base that— today more than ever — seems to give aesthetics as much importance as food quality,” its press release declares

我不知道；在一家感觉有点……无味的餐馆里，最重要的是对克的估价。

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