民主党人重新夺回了众议院。如果你是一家社交媒体公司，同时关心你的公众形象和监管威胁，这是好事还是坏事？

从好的方面来看，监管环境看起来。。。有利的一个分裂的国会意味着很少有重大法案能够提交给总统，让现状或多或少保持原状。更妙的是，我们可能不会再就钻石和丝绸案举行国会听证会，也不会再听到任何其他声称受到“审查”的声音，因为它们的有机影响力正在下滑。

这就是说，制定一项国家数据隐私法——几乎可以肯定，这项法律将比加利福尼亚州的法律更弱，它将取代加利福尼亚州的法律——至少在理论上是可能的。科技公司非常想要它，昨晚赢得连任的加州民主党人罗·坎纳也是如此。马克娜·凯利（Makena Kelly）在边缘写道，他可能会在共和党控制的参议院中找到某种盟友，即使她很可能会大大削弱该法案：

But something like Khanna’s bill would need to move through the Senate before landing on the president’s desk. Republicans still have the majority in that chamber, so any tough Democratic privacy bills from the House will be met with the GOP’s general skeptici** regarding regulation. Leadership electi*** will also shake up the members on important commerce committees. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) won her bid for the Senate last night, and after chairing the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on tech this past term, her new energy will likely be brought to the corresponding body in the Senate. Last year, Blackburn put forth her own light-touch privacy legislation, and any bill that passes through the House will likely be brought in front of her before it passes the Senate.

另一个积极的方面是，如果你是一家社交媒体公司：我预计我们会逐渐减少对错误信息的关注，至少在明年总统竞选活动开始之前。民主党的胜利与社交网站上的超党派帖子影响选举的观点背道而驰，不管这些帖子的数量有多大。Facebook、Twitter和YouTube还没有接近解决这个问题，但现在他们可以说，他们迄今为止的努力是有效的——为他们争取一些时间和一些掩护，做更多的事情。

社交媒体平台应该注意什么？这个国家的两极分化越来越严重，他们可能会为此做出贡献，这最终可能会导致更多的人放弃他们的应用程序(我已经感觉每天都有人告诉我，他们最近删除了Facebook应用程序、Instagram或Twitter。）无论谁赢了，都会发生这种情况，但随着民主党人对特朗普**进行了多方面的调查，我预计接下来的党派之争将特别激烈。

更大的担忧可能是自满。民主党的胜利对执政党更为专制的冲动的力量产生了至关重要的制约，每个人都获得了急需的宽慰。但坏演员将继续寻找利用平台的新方法，因此平台必须对其作品被滥用的方式保持警惕。

不过，总的来说，技术平台度过了一个非常美好的夜晚。

民主

扎克伯格拒绝出席英国议会的请求

马克·扎克伯格不会在国际议会委员会面前回答有关假新闻的问题：

The rebuff came after Damian Collins, the head of the U.K. parliament’s media committee, joined forces with his Canadian counterpart in hopes of pressuring Zuckerberg to testify, as he did before the U.S Congress. Facebook rejected the invitation to appear before the so-called “international grand committee” session Nov. 27, arguing it wasn’t possible for Zuckerberg to appear before all parliaments. Collins says pressure is building, with counterparts in Australia, Argentina and Ireland having joined the grand committee in the time since Zuckerberg was invited.

Facebook推迟对英国政治广告商的身份检查

为了回应关于Facebook“暗钱”问题的广泛报道，该公司正在推迟在英国推出类似的易滥用表单字段，Alex Hern和Jim Waterston报道：

“We have learnt that some people may try to game the disclaimer system by entering inaccurate details and have been working to improve our review process to detect and prevent this kind of abuse,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.

“Once we have strengthened our process for ensuring the accuracy of disclaimers, we will be introducing enforcement systems to identify political advertisers and require them to go through the authorisation process.”

Facebook阻止了更多来自俄罗斯巨魔集团的假账户

该公司周二以“不真实行为”为由屏蔽的30个Facebook账户和85个Instagram账户似乎来自俄罗斯：

A site that claims to be associated with the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) later posted a list of fake Instagram accounts it made before the US midterm electi***, which included many that were removed by Facebook yesterday and others that the company has now blocked.

官员们在中期选举中没有看到违反安全规定的迹象

David McCabe和Shannon Vavra写道：“国土安全部表示，在中期选举即将结束之际，没有看到安全违规行为影响到全国各地的选票。”。请注意，这适用于选举基础设施，如投票机，而不是社交媒体。

俄罗斯在美国选举干预行动中采取新策略

路透社报道，在社交媒体方面，俄罗斯特工们有一些新的伎俩，他们试图挑拨离间。值得注意的是，一位专家表示，假新闻越来越难以推广：

“We’ve done a lot research on fake news and people are getting better at figuring out what it is, so it’s become less effective as a tactic,” said Priscilla Moriuchi, a former National Security Agency official who is now a threat ****yst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future threat manager.

Instead, Russian accounts have been amplifying stories and internet “memes” that initially came from the U.S. far left or far right. Such postings seem more authentic, are harder to identify as foreign, and are easier to produce than made-up stories.

忘了俄国人吧。在这个选举日，美国人在兜售虚假信息和仇恨言论。

克雷格·廷伯格（Craig Timberg）和托尼·罗姆（Tony Romm）报告说，国内的超级党派演员采纳了俄罗斯的中期选举剧本，并发现它们在很大程度上是有效的：

“Everyone’s witnessed the playbook playing out,” explained Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “Now they don’t need Russia so much. They’ve learned that the tactic is devastatingly effective.”

He and other experts point to a rampant online spread of misleading reports and images about the migrant caravan in Mexico, for example — and especially the dem***trably false allegati*** that billionaire George Soros is funding a violent “invasion” of the United States.

Facebook、谷歌工具揭示新的政治广告策略

Paresh Dave使用新的平台广告档案来评估2018年活动期间有多少广告因违反规则而被删除：

Reuters found that Facebook and Google took down 436 ads from May through October related to 34 U.S. House of Representatives contests declared competitive last month by RealClearPolitics, which tracks political opinion polls.

Of the 258 removed ads with start and end dates, ads remained on Google an average of eight days and Facebook 15 days, according to data Reuters collected from the databases.

在别处

Facebook、谷歌都是选举广告的赢家，尽管他们插手了大声疾呼

据托德·希尔兹、格里·史密斯和莎拉·弗里尔报道，2016年大选后，谷歌和Facebook不得不花费数不清的数百万美元来支撑自己的平台，但谷歌和Facebook却从政治广告中获得了暴利：

Digital ad spending rose more than 25-fold from the last non-presidential national electi*** in 2014, reaching 20 percent of expected political spending this year at almost $1.8 billion, according to estimates compiled by Borrell. Kantar Media/CMAG, which omits some online activity, estimated 2018 online spending at $900 million, up from $250 million four years ago.

The figures show how digital sites, with their ability to target thin slices of the electorate, have assumed a prime place alongside traditional media such as broadcast TV, which is still prized for reaching large numbers of older voters likely to go the polls and accounts for the largest amount of political ad spending.

Samantha Bee的****玩家报告了800多起压制选民的事件

这里有一个属于“标题太好了，你几乎不想读这个故事”的类别。但是，因为我关心你，我确实读了这个故事：

And a few months ago, Full Frontal host Samantha Bee released an app called This Is Not A Game: The Game, which married HQ Trivia-esque gameplay with political knowledge, for jackpots ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. In the lead-up to this year’s climactic midterms, however, Bee and the show have partnered with The Democracy Labs — a project founded by Silicon Valley technologist Deepak Puri — to turn the app into something more: a portal for Americans to report voter suppression. Today, Bee and the show announced that players on the app have now reported more than 800 total instances of voter suppression nationwide.

为什么Twitter用户在Bios中标记合作伙伴？

泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）在推特的个人简历中提到你重要的另一半的做法引发了巨大的争议。我支持那些说这种做法通常令人恶心的人，但其他人不同意：

“I added my hu**and’s handle to my bio right around the time we got engaged three years ago. It kind of came along with that haze of OMG I’m engaged and so in love and everyone needs to know it! feeling,” said Natalie O’Grady of Portland, Oregon. “Now I feel like spouse is definitely part of my personal identity. I’m a lucky lady and while wife isn’t my entire world, I think I ended up with a pretty awesome partner, and I’m proud to be his partner, too.”

Facebook屏蔽了种族主义特朗普的广告，但损害已经造成

马修·英格拉姆（Mathew Ingram）报告说，当Facebook删除总统宣传的种族主义广告时，已经有多达500万人看到了它。

发射

Facebook的“未发送”功能将给你10分钟删除一条消息

今年4月，马克·扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）被披露在没有告知与他聊天的人的情况下，秘密删除了他在Facebook上的所有信息。Facebook承诺为每个人推出这项功能，但这项功能只在10分钟内有效。扎克伯格自己也有同样的限制的可能性有多大？

脸谱网的GoGQL拥有自己的开源基金会

GraphQL，一个查询脸谱网在2012创建的数据库的语言，正在被转入一个开源的基础。

微软正在逐步推出其Kaizala group communicati***应用程序

微软有一个名为Kaizala的WhatsApp克隆，没有人告诉我，现在它可以免费为365个商业客户提供Office服务。让我们希望办公室工作人员不要用它来煽动仇恨煽动的暴徒！

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为什么谷歌的**是科技领域的分水岭

法哈德·曼乔（Farhad Manjoo）和我一样认为谷歌的退出是一件大事：

In just a week, the organizers used Google’s own collaborative tools, and leveraged its open company culture, to create a wide-ranging movement. Their demands reflect the comments and suggesti*** of more than 1,000 people who participated in internal conversati*** about the walkout. They include points of view of that have long been marginalized in tech — of minority workers, for instance, and of contractors, the industry’s second-class citizens.

The walkout’s organizers told me that they were aiming to keep that movement alive — to ask the most important questi*** about how their company operates in the world, and to inspire those in other parts of the tech industry to take up similar arms.

最后。。。

投票贴口渴陷阱在这里

泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）报道说，Instagram上的所有热门人物都在脱下衣服，以便更好地突出他们的“我投票的贴纸”，这是一部杰作：

When Juan Del Toro, a Ph.D. student in New York, got home from the polls this morning, he took his shirt off, set the camera to selfie mode, posted an i votedsticker to his shirtless chest, and shared the photo to Instagram. “Don’t forget to exercise … your right to vote,” he wrote, followed by a winky-face emoji. Del Toro said it was easy, and peeling the sticker off his hairy chest didn’t even hurt.

“I thought it was effective because sex sells. Non-shirtless pics get less likes (40-60) whereas shirtless pics get a ton (200+). So I thought why not,” he wrote via an Instagram direct message, adding that he wanted to “inspire people to do their civic duty and make it seem like voting is a sexy and provocative thing to do. As it should be!

我会允许的，德尔·托罗。

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