公司不是民主国家。但诞生于民主国家的公司有时会展示他们的价值观，比如社交网络在起草内容节制政策时引用了《第一修正案》。

当然，**活动不仅限于民主国家。然而，今天的谷歌**有着惊人的民主性，数千名谷歌员工离开办公桌，**他们的领导层迅速将性骚扰者从公司中分离出来的问题。一大群关系松散的人走到一起，采取共同行动，为他们的不满寻求补救。

我怀疑，从长远来看，他们会成功。

今天事件的直接原因是上周《****》的一则轰动一时的报道，报道称，尽管安卓联合创始人安迪·鲁宾（Andy Rubin）的***指控可信，但该公司已获得9000万美元的离职金。这是《****》在该公司高管中发现的几**不当事件之一。

紧接着，谷歌首席执行官Sundar Pichai告诉员工，在过去两年中，谷歌解雇了48名性骚扰者。但今天的**之所以如此强大，是因为他们向全世界展示了性骚扰和对**的不平等待遇在公司是多么普遍。

一位匿名谷歌用户告诉BuzzFeed的卡罗琳·奥多诺万：“****上的每一个故事都有成千上万的其他故事没有被讲述。”这就是为什么这么多人参与其中。”

奥多诺万参加了今天的一次**——**发生在谷歌全球办公室内和周围——并拍摄了一个令人心碎的故事，讲述了一名员工在公司活动中说一名同事试图“把她从人群中拖走”。

Nancy said she reported the incident to HR, which made it clear “that I was the problem.”

She cried in her car every day before work for an hour.

“They told me I’m no longer allowed to talk to anybody about this issue at all. They recommended therapy,” said Nancy, in tears. “They said, ‘Don’t worry, keep working with this person’.” Despite an investigation, nothing happened, and Nancy said she continued to work with the person for three months. During that time, she said she cried in her car every day before work for an hour.

这些事件肯定不是谷歌独有的。但该公司坚持高标准，员工凭借其高水平的技能和在寻找其他工作时的极端选择性，对雇主拥有不同寻常的影响力。谷歌人非常聪明，他们知道这一点，并举行了**，部分原因是希望这能激励其他员工让他们的雇主承担同样的责任。

正如一名员工今天告诉《****》的那样：

Claire Stapleton, a product marketing manager for YouTube, which is owned by Google, who helped call for the walkout, said the number of employees who had turned out at protests exceeded her expectati***.

“We’re optimistic that we’ve opened a conversation about structural change here and elsewhere,” she said.

这种情况的一个原因是，对话在主流媒体和社交媒体上泛滥。数千名谷歌用户走上街头抱怨他们的雇主，其中许多人已经被记录在案，新闻媒体抓住了这个机会，这是前所未有的。更聪明的**标语的照片在推特上回荡，游行和吟唱的视频也在推特上回荡。削减公布了**组织者的要求清单。在每一篇关于这一事件的报道中都有它的特色。

谷歌高管退到角落里，对这一活动表示了官方（如果沉默的话）支持。首席执行官Sundar Pichai不祥地同意在今天的Dealbook会议上登台亮相，他对采访者说：“像这样的时刻表明，我们并不总是做对，因此我们致力于做得更好。”

今天我感到了罕见的乐观情绪。谷歌的退出让人感觉像是另一个时代的事件——社交媒体的力量似乎主要被用来对权力说真话，而不是溶解我们现实的本质。**者巧妙地扮演了他们的角色，为许多其他人提供了一本有用的剧本。如果我们不能从我们的民主中得到一个有效的民主，至少现在，我们仍然可以从我们的雇主那里尝到它的味道。

民主

一份新报告称，全球互联网自由度持续下降

我写了关于自由之家2018年互联网自由报告的文章，其中有很多值得关注的原因：

In the United States, internet freedom declined in 2018 due to the Federal Communicati*** Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Other countries fared much worse — 17 out of 65 surveyed had adopted laws restricting online media. Of those, 13 prosecuted citizens for allegedly spreading false information. And more countries are accepting training and technology from China, which Freedom House describes as an effort to export a system of censorship and surveillance around the world.

YouTube高管警告欧盟第13条对混音、粉丝视频有害

YouTube全球音乐总监Lyor Cohen是YouTube最新一位发表博客谴责欧盟版权指令的高管。科恩说，第13条将损害音乐家和独立创作者(这也将给YouTube和谷歌带来许多法律难题。）

“Let me be clear: we understand and support the intent of Article 13. We need effective ways for copyright holders to protect their content,” Cohen wrote. “But we believe that the current proposal will create severe unintended c***equences for the whole industry. We still have a couple of weeks to work together towards a better final version of the law. The music industry should really pay attention to these unintended c***equences - the system that largely contributes to their success is at risk of major change in the European Union.”

苹果、Facebook和谷歌等56家企业告诉特朗普不要削弱变性人权利

大型科技公司周四告诉特朗普**不要改变联邦政策，根据出生时的生物性别来定义性别。

谷歌主页的新闻提要会重复Facebook的错误吗？

迪特尔·博恩（Dieter Bohn）询问谷歌推出feed是否会威胁到Facebook的稳定：

After a weekend where we learned about two domestic terrorists who were radicalized by social media, all I could think about regarding Google’s new effort to push an algorithmic news feed was: “Hey Google, read the freaking room.”

We live in an era where we see real-world tragedies inspired by some form of awfulness on social media every day. We sometimes struggle to clearly define the online causal connecti*** to these tragedies, but over the past few weeks, it doesn’t seem all that hard. So it seems like a pretty inopportune time for Google to decide to put yet another news feed in front of milli*** (or billi***) of people. There has probably not been a time in 2018 when Google could have chosen to launch a new news feed that wouldn’t have made me feel this way, but this week seems particularly bad.

新数据揭示了俄罗斯一些网络巨魔是如何传播的

Peter Aldhous撰写了微软关于俄罗斯人如何利用病毒共享的最新研究：

Most Russian trolls made little headway, but the star performers scored some big hits. Sometimes they beat the mainstream news media to coverage of divisive events. On other occasi***, their tweets were embedded in widely read news stories. And in March 2017, one story from a fake black identity news site operated by the Kremlin got a huge traffic surge thanks to a high ranking in Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

It all dem***trates “the ease with which malicious actors can harness social media and search engines for propaganda campaigns,” the Microsoft study found.

在别处

俄罗斯互联网巨魔痴迷于特朗普和被取消的喜剧节目

乔治亚·威尔斯（Georgia Wells）和罗布·巴里（Rob Barry）写下了俄罗斯巨魔在推特上说的话，当时他们并没有破坏民主。事实证明，他们痴迷于被取消的喜剧中央节目《午夜》，该节目邀请观众在推特上发表愚蠢的双关语。

One of the trolls’ most popular tweets was in resp***e to the prompt #RedneckAMovie. The tweet “Y’all Come Back to the Future, Ya Hear?” got more than 140 likes. On the topic #MarriageAdviceIn3Words, the reply “Order your fries”—possibly a reference to spouses who don’t like to share—was retweeted 174 times

埃文·斯皮格尔誓言Snap将继续是一家独立的公司

Snap首席执行官埃文·斯皮格尔（Evan Spiegel）周四在一次会议上表示，他的公司将在五年后保持独立。根据最近的趋势，这足够**和解雇首席商务官3600多次了。

中国互联网之王想要征服世界

随着TikTok在美国的崛起，Raymond Zhong介绍了其母公司ByteDance：

Sae-eun said she didn’t realize that TikTok was made in China, which raises what might be the most interesting question about Bytedance: How did a company that is further democratizing self-expression come out of sternly undemocratic China in the first place?

Bytedance, which was founded in 2012, did not set out to dominate the market for bite-size videos. For many years, the company’s best-known product was not Douyin but a news aggregator called Jinri Toutiao, which uses machine learning to figure out what users like, then feeds them more of it.

加拿大儿童在社交媒体上看到数以千计的不健康食品广告：研究

渥太华大学的一项新研究发现，社交媒体充斥着以儿童为目标的高脂肪食品广告。

The study, commissioned by Heart & Stroke, found that children see an estimated 111 advertisements for food per week, or an average of 5,772 ads per year on apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and YouTube.

The majority of those ads promoted ultra-processed foods and beverages high in fat, salt, or sugar, the study found.

《Facebook困境》评论：一条不容忽视的信息

约翰·安德森对本周在前线播出的一部分为两部分的关于Facebook的纪录片大加赞赏(我还没看到呢，

There’s not a lot of TV that’s genuinely “must see,” but “The Facebook Dilemma” qualifies. Part 1, which airs Monday night, concerns itself with the warnings that arose, very early on, about the dangers Facebook posed to democratic instituti***. Tuesday’s Part 2 deals with the company’s resp***e, or lack thereof, to charges that it has enabled “fake news” and the disruption of electoral politics. It’s no **all thing that the program clarifies vital issues raised about Facebook—algorithms, for instance—so obscure to so many. Or that it so concisely tells its very disturbing story.

发射

Instagram的下一个摇钱树：即时推广故事广告

乔什·康斯特恩（Josh Contine）报道说，你现在可以付费让Facebook在Instagram上向更多人展示你糟糕的品牌故事：

A new ad type called “Promote” for Stories allows Instagram business pages to show their ephemeral slideshows to more users without doing much work. Admins can choose to auto-target users similar to their followers, people in a certain location, or use all of Instagram’s targeting parameters to inject their Story into the Stories queue of more users as an ad that can also link to business’ Instagram profile or website.

事实核查，我

Factcheck.me通过社交媒体跟踪机器人活动、放大图像和病毒链接。这是一个研究工具，创始人最近使用它来跟踪匹兹堡枪击案和移民大篷车周围与机器人相关的活动。

拿

马克·扎克伯格如何变得大到不能倒

Farhad Manjoo说马克·扎克伯格实际上不向任何人负责：

That few can imagine a Facebook without Mr. Zuckerberg, 34, underscores how unaccountable our largest tech companies have become. Mr. Zuckerberg, thanks to his own drive and brilliance, has become one of the most powerful unelected people in the world. Like an errant oil company or sugar-pumping food company, Facebook makes decisi*** that create huge c***equences for society — and he has profited handsomely from the chaos.

Yet because of Facebook’s ownership structure — in which Mr. Zuckerberg’s shares have 10 times the voting power of ordinary shares — he is omnipotent there, answering basically to no one.

你不需要去黑暗的网络上寻找可恨的阴谋论——****

吉姆·鲁滕伯格（Jim Rutenberg）指出，我在这里经常提到的超党派论调也延伸到了由主要出版商、媒体公司和戏剧连锁店付费的作品：

You can see this kind of thing in the pages of “Liars, Leakers and Liberals” by the Fox News opinion host Jeanine Pirro. Published in July by Center Street, a division of the Hachette Book Group, Ms. Pirro’s book lays out “the globalist, open-border oligarchy” that, the author asserts, is seeking to nullify the results of the 2016 presidential election.

“The perpetrators of this anti-American plot include, but are not limited to, the leadership at the F.B.I., the C.I.A., N.S.A. and other intelligence agencies, the Democratic Party and perhaps even the FISA courts,” she writes.

最后。。。

对我来说，几乎没有什么事情比社交网络算法纯粹出于偶然而帮助人们更令人愉快。Brian Krebs今天从LinkedIn获得了一个冠军。

跟我说

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