本周早些时候，《每日野兽》发表了一篇有着违反直觉的发现的报道。正如研究人员所知，没有证据表明俄罗斯试图干预美国中期选举：

Russian social media trolls are, of course, still promulgating fake news and slapping frantically at America’s hot butt***—tweeting wildly in favor of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, according to researchers, and pushing a counter-protest against last summer’s white supremacist Unite the Right 2 rally. The GRU is still hacking into computers in the U.S. and everywhere else. But so far, Russia-watchers say the trolls haven’t delved into the nitty gritty of 35 Senate campaigns and 435 House races. Nor has the GRU engineered the type of damaging email dumps that tent-posted the 2016 election circus.

当然，网上仍有大量虚假信息。根据脸谱网的说法，大部分都是本土的：

Today, we’re removing 559 Pages and 251 accounts that have c***istently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Given the activity we’ve seen — and its timing ahead of the US midterm electi*** — we wanted to give some details about the types of behavior that led to this action. Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites. Many used the same techniques to make their content appear more popular on Facebook than it really was. Others were ad farms using Facebook to mislead people into thinking that they were forums for legitimate political debate.

正如Sheera Frankel在《****》上所报道的那样，这是迄今为止Facebook上对国内坏演员进行的最大规模清洗。但是，尽管我们经常关注外国破坏我们选举的努力，但正如你所料，大部分影响力运动都源自这里。”如果你从数量上看，我们看到的大多数信息操作都是国内参与者，”Facebook安全主管纳撒尼尔·格雷彻（Nathaniel Gleicher）告诉弗兰克尔。

这些人在进行什么样的信息操作？弗兰克尔追踪了拥有310万追随者的右翼新闻的兴起，最近发布了一些虚假报道，称克里斯蒂娜·布拉西·福特的律师因其关于最高**提名人布雷特·卡瓦诺的证词而受贿。

然而，这些页面上的讨论往往是政治讨论的主流，即使本质上是超党派的。利扎·德沃斯金和托尼·罗姆在《*****》上有更多的例子。

The domestic pages and accounts Facebook removed Thursday had a strong political bent. Nation In Distress, which claimed to be the early Trump supporter, recently shared a link to a story that had called Rep. Maxine Waters “demented.” Founded in 2012, it had amassed more than 3.2 million likes and over 3 million followers, as of Thursday morning, before it was taken down. The page linked in its “about” section to a website called “America’s Freedom Fighters,” which posted content and duplicated press releases that appeared to be written by others about violent crimes and gun rights -- all alongside a sidebar of ads. An administrator for the site declined to comment.

On the opposite end of the political spectrum, Reverb Press posted attacks on President Trump and referred to Republicans as “cheating scumbags” to its over 700,000 followers. A second left-leaning page, Reasonable People Unite, posted a screenshot from a Twitter user who said, “Somewhere in America, a teenage girl is listening to her parents defend Brett Kavanaugh and she is thinking to herself, if something like that happens to me, I have nowhere to go.”

正如您所料，这些页面的管理员抱怨他们没有做错什么。但他们的页面并没有因为发布错误信息而被清除：他们因为违反了Facebook关于“不真实行为”的政策而被清除，这可能包括使用假账户管理页面。如果说明天Facebook上的错误信息比昨天少，那主要是因为技术问题。如果这些超级党派网页的管理员能够简单地停止创建虚假账户，那么Facebook上的错误信息可能会空前猖獗。

与此同时，到当天结束时，俄罗斯再次因滥用Facebook而成为头条新闻。该公司表示，它已经禁用了一家名为SocialDataHub的俄罗斯公司的“数十个”账户和个人资料。SocialDataHub做了什么？据路透社报道，俄罗斯**搜集了公共和私人数据，为“国家服务机构提供了通过分析社交媒体用户照片来识别身份的手段”。也许俄罗斯国家服务机构希望对非法获取的Facebook数据做些什么有一个善意的解释，但很难想象这可能是什么。据报道，该公司首席执行官阿图尔·哈楚扬（Artur Khachuyan）将该公司的工作与剑桥分析公司（Cambridge Analytica）的工作进行了比较。

CNET与Khachuyan取得了联系，后者向他们承诺，公司正在做的一切都是积极的。如果你能从中得出结论，请告诉我(我不能

”No one just downloaded Facebook profiles, especially the data of citizens of other countries, except Russia,” Khachuyan said. “In Russia, such work is permitted by federal law No. 152 (this is ****ogous to the GDPR).”

Khachuyan also said Fubutech, an affiliated business that works with governments, is developing scraping technology for government clients but doesn’t scrape the data itself. Finally, he said that he teaches journali** courses that include using scraped data. Though the classes are focused on using public data from governments, some students scraped social media data, a Social Data Hub representative said.

这是世界上最大的社交网络的又一天。离中期选举还有25天。

民主

马克·华纳是为了科技太强大而来的

我喜欢参议员马克·华纳，但这位弗吉尼亚州参议员的许多举动似乎都在大声抱怨他在其中几乎没有影响力的事情。但也许民主党有一天会重新夺回国会——甚至很快因此，我将继续阅读他的采访。他在周四出版的一篇文章中与富兰克林·福尔交谈：

WARNER: I saw from my three girls, from my own family’s basis, the almost addictive tendencies of devices. I saw how an unedited public square often allowed extremist voices to connect with other extremists in a way that multiplied their volume, far beyond what they actually represent. I saw the proliferation of bots manipulating political conversation. And then there was also a point when I got pretty pissed off. I was seeing evidence of foreign intervention on the social-media platforms. I’ve met with Mark Zuckerberg a half-dozen times, decent enough guy, but there was such an arrogant kind of resp***e to complaints: “Anybody who’d say that doesn’t understand.”

谷歌因谷歌+隐私漏洞面临国会越来越大的压力

马克娜·凯利（Makena Kelly）关注国会对Google+案日益增长的兴趣：

“Particularly in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica controversy, c***umers’ trust in the companies that operate those services to keep their private data secure has been shaken,” today’s letter reads. “At the same time that Facebook was learning the important lesson that tech firms must be forthright with the public about privacy issues, Google apparently elected to withhold information about a relevant vulnerability for fear of public scrutiny.”

为什么我会看到这个？我们的政治广告收集者提供的有趣的Facebook广告

ProPublica强调了一些Facebook未能正确处理政治广告的例子。

埃及根据“假新闻”法判刑女演员阿马尔·法蒂

这是另一个令人痛心的案件，假新闻法被用来压制异见(法蒂报告说遭到警察的***。）

Five months after her initial arrest, Fathy has become the latest in a growing list of Egyptian dissidents prosecuted under the government’s “fake news” laws. The actress turned activist faces two years in prison and a fine of $562for speaking out on sexual haras**ent and criticizing the government.

“This is an outrageous case of injustice, where the survivor is sentenced while the abuser remains at large,” Najia Bounaim, Amnesty International’s North Africa campaigns director, said in a statement. “It is currently more dangerous to criticise the government in Egypt than at any time in the country’s recent history. Egyptians living under President al-Sisi are treated as criminals simply for peacefully expressing their opini***.”

在别处

2018年9月Facebook顶级出版商

这是一个极具说服力的2018年媒体故事，由本月的Newswip顶级出版商排名提供。排名第一的出版商是Unilad，有3200万次订婚。那么所有这些约定都得到了什么？嗯，它已经被“投入管理”，一种英国版的破产。但是，嘿，祝贺你所有的喜欢和分享。

为什么《圣经》是Facebook上最受欢迎的出版商。

威尔·奥雷姆斯（Will Oremus）最近试图解释Facebook上“lad”内容的现象：

To American eyes, the dominance of sites such as LADbible and Unilad on Facebook might be as surprising as it is disconcerting—particularly since Facebook has very publicly vowed to improve the quality of stories that perform best in its news feed. These sites’ presence at the top of NewsWhip’s list prompted head-scratching even from seasoned pundits, such as FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver.

But LADbible and Unilad are as familiar to blokes in England as they are foreign to the U.S. media elite. There isn’t a perfect U.S. equivalent, but imagine Upworthy rewritten by the Barstool bros, or a whole website comprised of “Around the Web” headlines, and you’ll get a decent picture. Once known for blatant misogyny, both sites embarked on an effort to tone it down a few years ago, with LADbible earning profiles by BBC News and BuzzFeed in the process. Nowadays they mix celebrity gossip and feel-good stories with hastily rewritten press releases, the occasional outrage-bait, and sundry viral fluff. Also: lots and lots of dogs.

超级党派和假新闻出版商正在为泰勒·斯威夫特展开斗争

拜托-泰勒·斯威夫特受够了吗？

Taylor Swift has become the focus of partisan memes and fake news after she endorsed a Democratic candidate in Tennessee in an Instagram post, and encouraged her fans to register to vote.

Swift’s post caused partisan news sites and Facebook pages, as well as at least one hoax creator, to kick into high gear in an attempt to generate engagement and revenue through posts and memes.

Facebook的Freddy Abnousi博士希望医生能够获得更多的患者数据

你们可能还记得Facebook在本周早些时候推出门户网站的时候，记者们都说“不是现在，Facebook！”为了回应这些担忧，Facebook将其健康研究负责人推上舞台，要求“大规模访问关于患者社会和行为特征的更细粒度数据”，几个月前，一个类似的项目作为剑桥分析结果的一部分被关闭：

Abnousi advocated for large-scale access to more granular data on patients’ social and behavioral characteristics, which he said far outweighed the three other key factors impacting mortality rates: genetics, exposure to risks such as a**estos and access to quality health care. He didn’t specifically call for using Facebook or Instagram user data for these purposes.

“The primary driver of health outcomes in the United States are social and behavioral variables,” he said. “Really understanding what these social determinants of health are should be our primary area of focus.”

Bumble约会应用所有者考虑首次公开募股

创始人安德烈·安德列夫说，班布尔可以上市。如果是这样的话，它可以为Match Group提供一个平衡，Match Group倾向于在每一款新的约会应用程序达到临界质量后立即抢购。这个故事中最令人惊讶的细节是，虽然Banmble将成为IPO后的品牌，但从技术上讲，它是Rimberg International的子公司。

MTV校友如何统治数字媒体（美元）

杰西卡·图克尔（Jessica Toonkel）有一篇有趣的文章，讲述了前MTV高管是如何蜂拥到科技媒体公司的，包括Facebook、YouTube和Spotify。Facebook全球营销副总裁Carolyn Everson是MTV的校友。

Square首席财务官Sarah Friar即将离职，成为Nextdoor的首席执行官

投资者认为弗里亚的离开对Square来说是一个坏兆头，Square的老板杰克·多尔西（Jack Dorsey）专注于推特，而她被认为在Square从事大量日常管理工作。但这里也有一些讨论的好处，那就是一个大型社交网络现在有一位**担任首席执行官。是时候了。

Oculus联合创始人勒基说，离开Facebook不是我的选择

Oculus联合创始人帕尔默·勒基（Palmer Luckey）昨天透露，他被解雇了，但他没有说明原因。我想我知道为什么，但我只有一个来源！如果你听到什么，就来找我。

谷歌迫使用户进入谷歌的许多恼人方式+

我本想在周二强调这一点，但Dani Deahl回顾了谷歌试图强制使用Google+的方式，其数量之多令人震惊：

In 2011, the Google Bar was a black strip that ran across the top of the screen on all of Google’s web properties. That quickly shifted into a more clean integration with a drop-down menu attached to Google’s logo that let you switch between things like Maps, YouTube, and search. No matter how it looked though, one thing remained the same: it prioritized sharing content with Google+ and came with a notificati*** icon that let you know whenever there was new activity on your Google+ account.

发射

Facebook群组现在可以启动多达250人的聊天室

你的Facebook群组现在可以启动一个巨大的群组聊天，讨论正在慢慢杀死你的罕见疾病。或者别的什么！你可以选择。

3D照片现在在Facebook和VR上发布

Facebook推出了3D照片，称之为“一种在新闻提要和虚拟现实中以有趣、逼真的方式分享你的记忆和瞬间的新方式。”

拿

战争的未来将被“喜欢”

彼得W。辛格、爱默生和爱默生·布鲁金出版了一本新书，讲述了我们陷入困境的信息生态系统。外交政策摘录如下：

Such online skirmishes may appear insignificant compared with real fights conducted with real weap***, but they have become just as important. As Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the highly decorated former commander of Joint Special Operati*** Command, stated at a military conference in 2017, for the foreseeable future what happens on social media will be crucial to the outcome of any debate, battle, or war. The reason, he explained, is that battles are now being waged over truth itself. In these fights, “the line between reality and perception will be blurred,” he said. “Separating fact from fiction will be tough for governments but almost impossible for populati***.”

这里有一个来自虚假信息研究者的好消息，关于为什么极权**比民主国家更容易使用互联网。你可能可以凭直觉理解其中的大部分内容，但我发现看到Ovadya把它拼出来很有用：

最后。。。

杰克·多西不用电脑

我的意思是，一方面，我不相信这一点。杰克·多尔西是一个非常富有的人，他经营着两家公司，当然他有一台电脑。或者，比如，访问计算机。也就是说，他对“你会用电脑吗？”这个问题的官方回答是：“不会。”

我不喜欢在电脑方面告诉人们如何过自己的生活，但我认为这是多尔西应该考虑的事情。广场的首席运营官刚辞职。也许用她的！

跟我说

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