一个小小的表单字段给Facebook带来了很多麻烦。
最近几周，我们在Facebook上讨论了新的“黑钱”。今年早些时候，该公司开始要求广告商验证他们的身份，这项任务是通过键入通过邮寄明信片收到的代码来完成的。
问题在于，当广告商发布广告时，Facebook并不要求他们发布经验证的身份。相反，他们可以在自由格式字段中键入任何内容。当人们可以在脸书上撒谎时，他们就撒谎了。
迄今为止，记者们已经发现了几起失实陈述的事例。有一个自由派团体偷偷地以保守派为目标，宣传全民医疗保健。有一个匿名者在弗吉尼亚州诽谤一位民主党国会候选人。
本周，记者们意识到，他们可以利用这种黑客手段来表演吸引眼球的特技，于是，一种不太可能出现的虚假政治广告类型——脸谱网（Facebook）上的“推特”（trolling）应运而生。
周二，Vice的威廉·图顿（William Turton）写道，他在“付费”领域冒充100名参议员，他的广告无论如何都得到了批准。这促使《商业内幕》的肖纳·戈什（Shona Ghosh）购买了Facebook的死敌剑桥分析公司（Cambridge Analytica）的“付费”政治广告。请继续关注明天，我预计Refinery29将寻求批准一则由5000万用户数据泄露事件负责人付费的广告。
Facebook在这个问题上的立场是，监管政治广告是**的工作，而不是技术平台。我赞同这一观点——我希望有一个适用于所有广告商的标准，而不是跨平台的不一致规则的拼凑。
在这一边缘，马克纳·凯利（Makena Kelly）审视了国会为制定这样一项法规所做的努力的令人遗憾的状况。
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), a sp***or on the House version of the same bill voiced similar sentiments. “Paid political advertising should be subject to the same disclosure requirements regardless of what form it takes—the Honest Ads Act I introduced would assure such,” Coffman said to The Verge. “The American people deserve to know who’s paying for the ads they see on the Internet just as much as they do the ads they see on TV or hear on the radio.”
与此同时，在Facebook的“付费”领域撒谎，无论多么滑稽，都是违反公司规定的，并且会被禁止刊登广告。这就是说，这是另一个Facebook选择在事前表达最大化，事后强制执行的案例。下周的中期选举尘埃落定后，公司可能会重新考虑这一决定。
民主
国会如何控制谷歌和Facebook
马克纳·凯利（Makena Kelly）审视了国会制定新的国家数据隐私法的计划，该法可以借鉴欧洲通用数据保**规的内容：
Industry leaders and c***umer advocates are already locking horns over the provisi*** of the bill, like whether it will prohibit states from enacting their own tougher privacy rules or exactly how it will define personal information. This fight will determine how the US government will be able to restrain predatory privacy practices for the foreseeable future.
“These developments have all combined to put the issue of c***umer data privacy squarely on Congress’ doorstep,” Thune said ahead of a commerce hearing last month. “The question is no longer whether we need a federal law to protect c***umers’ privacy. The question is what shape that law should take.”
英国和加拿大联手传唤马克·扎克伯格接受讯问
来自英国和加拿大的政界人士要求马克·扎克伯格出席11月27日委员会关于网络误报的听证会。如果扎克伯格不在，我已经记住了所有关于错误信息的Facebook谈话要点，如果必要，我愿意作证。
In a letter to the Facebook chief signed by UK MP Damian Collins and Canadian MP Bob Zimmer, Zuckerberg has been asked to face questi*** from an “international grand committee on disinformation and fake news” at an event in London on November 27th.
“We understand that it is not possible to make yourself available to all parliaments,” write Collins and Zimmer. “However, we believe that your users in other countries need a line of accountability to your organization — directly, via yourself. We would have thought that this resp***ibility is something that you would want to take up.”
在特朗普**的无舵反选举宣传斗争中
埃里克·盖勒（Eric Geller）定期提醒你，特朗普**没有计划反击俄罗斯对我们选举的干涉：
A month after the Sept. 21 meeting, the Trump administration still has no strategy for fighting disinformation campaigns aimed at swaying U.S. electi***, three people knowledgeable about the matter told POLITICO — less than a week before voters nationwide return to the polls.
In the absence of high-level White House coordination, the administration is letting individual agencies such as the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security make decisi*** about how to respond to foreign governments’ attempts to use social media and other propaganda to undermine U.S. electi***, according to people who have been briefed on or participated in the administration’s discussi*** of the issue. That means broader strategic questi*** remain unresolved because of White House turf wars, agencies’ competing priorities, political sensitivities and a lack of experience with a relatively new threat, the people say.
在别处
互联网愤怒的商业
凯文·鲁斯（Kevin Roose）是《今日日报》（Daily today）的主办方，他讲述了一个必须听的故事，讲述了一名工厂工人辞职为Facebook撰写超党派文章，直到他和妻子月薪12万美元。人们所看到的是那些帮助国家两极分化的人所表现出的彻底的愤世嫉俗。而这个故事的关键是绝对令人毛骨悚然。
纽约袭击事件后，Facebook禁止骄傲男孩账户、团体
周二，我写了一篇关于Instagram如何自问为什么它允许像“骄傲男孩”领袖加文·麦克因内斯这样的人物在平台上安家的文章。几分钟后，罗布·普莱斯（Rob Price）透露了Facebook正在通过Facebook和Instagram除掉骄傲的男孩的消息。
Facebook如何未能建立一个更好的Alexa（或Siri）
帕米·奥尔森（Parmy Olson）有一个有趣的故事，讲述了Facebook如何收购多家语音识别公司，以期开发语音助手，但由于企业内讧导致停滞而陷入停滞。我经常听到前Facebook员工这样说：季度审查周期意味着人们倾向于承担可以在三个月内完成的项目，以打动他们的经理，而牺牲长期思考。
Many product managers who worked on Facebook’s voice ambiti*** didn’t have a clear understanding of the technology involved, the source added. The managers also tended to change every three to six months, just as core researchers were gravitating to the prestigious FAIR and AML divisi***. The effect was like c***tantly repotting a tree and not giving it a chance to take root and grow. Facebook ultimately lacked “a cohesive team that stays with a problem.”
Facebook推出WorkplaceDomain以平息企业安全担忧
萨尔·罗德里格斯（Sal Rodriguez）对Workplace有一个很好的独家报道，这个产品敢于问如果你的公司在Facebook上运行是否会更好。该公司正转向另一个领域Workplace.com，希望人们不再与该公司如此密切的联系，因为该公司最近因其数据隐私问题而闻名(***会对话：哪种产品的时机、工作场所或门户更差？）
青少年使用群发信使聊天的方式与成年人非常不同
在本周的《你为什么要按那个按钮》节目中，Ashley Carman和Kaitlyn Tiffany与Facebook Messenger的Asha Sharma讨论了人们为什么离开群聊。
从硅谷精英到社交媒体仇恨：导致口吃的激进主义
Craig Timberg、Drew Harwell、Elizabeth Dwoskin和Emma Brown profile Gab创始人Andrew Torba在其一名用户涉嫌在犹太教堂谋杀11人后：
But the bans and crackdowns haven’t curbed Gab’s growth. There are now about 800,000 users, said Sanduja, compared with 10,000 two years ago. The company’s few employees are all under 30 and number fewer than half a dozen, including Torba and his wife, Sanduja said.
But there are signs that the company’s fractious public image has taken a toll on its leadership. Ekrem Buyukkaya, a Turkey-based developer who co-founded Gab with Torba, said on Sunday that he would step down as the company’s chief technology officer because of “attacks from the American press.” The company had previously said in an SEC filing that Buyukkaya’s work was crucial to its “future success.” Buyukkaya did not respond to requests for comment.
Gab的首席执行官说匹兹堡嫌疑犯并不代表该网站。但他花了数年时间招募像他这样的种族主义者
杰西卡·舒尔伯格（Jessica Schulberg）认为，托巴自己的社交媒体帖子有助于解释为什么白人民族主义者蜂拥而至，喋喋不休：
As Gab grew, Torba promoted a Canadian supporter of eugenics, a British c***piracy theorist who posts incoherent videos about George Soros and ISIS helping Africans pretending to be refugees get into Europe, and a far-right troll who was eventually banned from Lyft and Uber for complaining about “Islamic immigrant” drivers.
Last December, when Nehlen told a dual Israeli-American citizen who called for gun reform that she should leave the U.S. because she was only loyal to Israel — a common anti-Semitic trope — Torba reposted Nehlen’s tweet on Facebook, and wrote “B A S E D,” a term racists often use to approvingly describe other racists.
巨魔统治自由的地方：Reddit的新历史
David Streitfeld评论《我们是书呆子》，Christine Lagorio Chapkin的Reddig新历史：
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, a writer for Inc. magazine, tells the Reddit story in “We Are the Nerds.” The two co-founders, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, cooperated extensively. I admire them for doing so because despite Lagorio-Chafkin’s best efforts — Ohanian is called “chari**atic” or celebrated for his “chari**a” on Pages 47, 158, 214, 223 and 330 — they come off as whiny and callow schemers, and not the sharpest of sticks. On the very first page, the two University of Virginia seniors cannot figure out what a “kiosk” is.
The title “We Are the Nerds” doesn’t really fit the tale. “We Are the Trolls” would have made much more sense. “I was always kind of an [expletive],” Huffman explains early on. Lagorio-Chafkin bluntly calls him “a total troll.” He was also a genius programmer. The great achievement of the social internet was to unleash jerkdom for many while monetizing it for a few.
发射
Twitter测试主屏幕按钮，以轻松切换到按时间顺序倒转
Twitter正在测试一个新的按钮，它可以让你从一个排名的提要切换到一个纯粹按时间顺序排列的提要。我个人会觉得这很有用——我继续使用Tweetbot处理一些事情，很大程度上是因为它按时间顺序排列的提要。
取消“裂谷2”大修后，Oculus计划对旗舰VR耳机进行适度升级
Lucas Matney进一步报道了促使Oculus联合创始人Brendan Iribe上周离开公司的一项变化，他说Facebook的下一款旗舰VR耳机只会得到适度的改进：
In the wake of the overhaul’s cancellation, the company will be pursuing a more modest product update — possibly called the “Rift S” — to be released as early as next year, which makes minor upgrades to the device’s display resolution while more notably getting rid of the external sensor-tracking system, sources tell us. Instead, the headset will utilize the integrated “inside-out” Insight tracking system, which is core to Facebook’s recently announced Oculus Quest standalone headset.
通过屏幕上的灯光讲述七个可怕的故事
我们的副主编让我们为万圣节讲一个恐怖的（虚构的）故事。我上交了一篇关于假货的文章：
Dana’s heart dropped. She searched for news of the bombing across social media using the hashtag that everyone seemed to be using. What she saw was unrecognizable.
Every video she saw showed a different person carrying a bomb into the rally. Some showed the candidate herself carrying it in, in terrifying detail. Others showed long-dead historical figures and pop stars sneaking into the facility, their arms laden with explosives. One showed a beautifully animated Mickey Mouse as the culprit.
拿
Facebook的故事（美元）
Ben Thompson在脸谱网财报电话会议上做了一个非常出色的工作。他提出了一个理由，即新闻提要成为传统产品的速度比任何人预期的都快，同时该公司一直在努力将新闻报道货币化：
In short, I do think the overall story about the shift to Stories is true; what I am questioning is the degree to which Facebook is following the market versus attempting to counteract an unexpected decline in traditional Facebook usage. The latter more closely fits Occam’s Razor.
非常感谢。
昨天，在收到一张万圣节服装照片的请求后，她给我发了一张她儿子的照片，照片上的儿子打扮成了彭博社备受争议的故事中被黑客破解的超微型芯片。今天的时事通讯献给你的家人。
最后。。。
我痴迷于齐洛岛上那些丑陋的大厦
凯蒂·诺托普洛斯（Katie Notopolous）一直在看着齐洛（Zillow）上那栋价值10美元的可怕豪宅：
Laughing at someone who has terrible taste, even if they happen to have vast buying power, is a kind of class catharsis. Yes, these people are very rich and I am not, but look at the dumb things these rubes spent their milli*** on. Ha! It feels good to laugh at rich people, doesn’t it? Isn’t that what the joy of the New York Times Real Estate section is? Sure, maybe it’s snobby. I’m not saying I have amazing taste in home decor; I don’t. But I also don’t have $12 million and a swimming pool with a lazy river, a replica Statue of Liberty, or oddly phallic swirling marble columns in every room.
我希望有一天能拥有所有这些东西。但为此，我需要更多的人订阅时事通讯。将它转发给需要它的朋友！
跟我说
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