今年3月，联合国人权调查人员发现，Facebook在缅甸传播仇恨言论方面发挥了一定作用，助长了种族暴力，促使65万多罗兴亚***逃离缅甸若开邦，进入邻国孟加拉国。这份报告发表之际，人们越来越担心社交网络煽动暴力的方式，其中包含了一些迄今为止针对Facebook最严重的指控。

受联合国调查结果的影响，Facebook悄悄地委托进行了一项自己的研究——然后在美国中期选举前一天晚上发布，当时很少有人关注。这份报告由非盈利企业社会责任组织（BSR）撰写，长达62页，旨在了解Facebook在缅甸面临的挑战，并提供缓解挑战的解决方案。

期中考试的尘埃或多或少地散去后，我读了这份报告。虽然我花在阅读委员会的热点报道上的时间比非营利组织的要多，但一份自称为“人权影响评估”的报告在评估Facebook对缅甸人权的影响方面所起的作用却微乎其微，这让我感到震惊。

作者报告说，他们与缅甸约60人就报告进行了交谈，但他们没有探究平台上仇恨言论的任何具体实例或由此产生的危害。他们的分析仅限于高层，谁能说得模棱两可。它对缅甸实地局势的理解似乎主要是传闻，其结论与今年春天阅读有关该问题的新闻报道的任何人都是一样的。

作者写道：“虽然Facebook上发布的内容与线下伤害之间的实际关系还没有完全被理解，但Facebook已经成为那些试图传播仇恨和造成伤害的人的手段，并且帖子与线下暴力有关。”，在许多案件中，被动语态用来掩盖他们拒绝调查的事实。

我开始阅读这份报告，希望它能澄清社交媒体上的仇恨言论与现实世界暴力之间的联系。我们渴望了解独特的平台机制（如共享按钮和加密）对私刑暴徒的影响。但是，作者们选择深入探讨缅甸当前的政治动态，并最终为Facebook提供一份任务清单，让该公司在对其业务造成最小干扰的情况下继续运营。

大多数由顾问编写的报告注定要在一个被忽视的抽屉里度过漫长的时光，而BSR对缅甸局势的贡献也应该受到类似的命运(周五下午，该非营利组织没有回应置评请求。）

不过，幸运的是，本周我们在Facebook和缅甸收到了第二份报告——我认为这一份更有用。它来自联合国人权事务高级专员办事处。与BSR不同的是，联合国报告询问Facebook为什么会进入缅甸——或者其他充满冲突的国家——而不首先了解它将如何控制平台上的内容。他们写道：

在进入任**市场之前，特别是那些种族、宗教或其他社会关系紧张的市场，Facebook和其他社交媒体平台，包括messenger系统，应该对其产品、政策和运营进行深入的人权影响评估，根据国情，采取缓解措施，尽可能降低风险。

相反，Facebook在2015年推出了一个针对特定国家的服务版本，并在一年后停止了免费基础设施计划后将其添加到该服务中。很快，该公司在全国拥有2000万用户——尽管由于当地语言和Unicode的特殊性，其非缅甸语版主对平台上发生的事情知之甚少。

联合国对缅甸局势有着广泛的看法。社交媒体的具体效果仅限于极为全面的报告结尾的几页。然而，Facebook为作者所写的大部分内容提供了背景：在一份444页的报告中，Facebook被提及289次。

与BSR一样，联合国承认Facebook上的****可以为缅甸做出积极贡献。但它也建议Facebook至少向一部分研究人员提供从平台上删除的仇恨言论的例子，以便更好地理解其作用。这涉及到隐私问题，不能掉以轻心。但肯定可以找到一个中间立场。

与此同时，BSR和联合国在一件事上达成了一致，这是一件容易的事：Facebook应该提供关于缅甸境内仇恨言论和其他违反公司社区标准行为的具体国家数据。我们可能无法确定社交网络在多大程度上助长了种族暴力，但我们应该能够监控我们最大社交网络上仇恨言论的爆发。非人性化的言论往往是暴力的前兆——而Facebook如果认真对待它的作用，则可以作为一个早期预警系统。

民主

谷歌在中国：当“不要作恶”遭遇防火墙时

Mark Bergen为谷歌的蜻蜓困境提供了一个功能处理：

Interviews with more than 18 current and former employees suggest the company’s predicament resulted in part from failing to learn from mistakes that played out a decade earlier, when it first confronted the realities of China’s economic and political might. This history is known to many at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., but mostly unknown outside of it. In an interview in September, Downey, 42, elaborates. “There’s this Utopian idea: Technology will come in, and people will take these tools, change their government, and get their freedom,” he says. “We tried that experiment, and it didn’t work.”

谷歌的Sundar Pichai说：“技术不能解决人类的问题”

这是谷歌首席执行官的一次异乎寻常的笨拙采访，他在采访中将使独裁****得以存在的法律比作欧洲被遗忘的权利法律：

One of the things that’s not well understood, I think, is that we operate in many countries where there is censorship. When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. Whatever form it takes, I actually don’t know the answer. It’s not even clear to me that search in China is the product we need to do today.

#谷歌**更新：集体行动有效，但我们需要继续努力。

以下是谷歌**组织者对该公司迄今为止做出的让步的回应。简言之：良好的开端，但需要采取更多行动：

Organizer Stephanie Parker said of the resp***e, “We demand a truly equitable culture, and Google leadership can achieve this by putting employee representation on the board and giving full rights and protecti*** to contract workers, our most vulnerable workers, many of whom are Black and Brown women.”

谷歌退出的漫长历史

玛丽·希克斯看着（鼓舞人心的！）科技行业集体行动的历史：

This may seem like a new development, but the Google walkout is steeped in a long history — both of women being minimized and discriminated against in tech, and of women asserting their power to force change. As I wrote my book Programmed Inequality, I found plenty of evidence of discrimination throughout tech history, but I also saw that when women in tech fight back — particularly by organizing or taking their labor elsewhere — the effects are tremendous. For instance, women’s forced exodus from the UK’s burgeoning early computing industry resulted in British computing’s premature decline. When they put their talents to work, however, they created multibillion-dollar software companies. Their experiences show us that not only can undervalued employees often wield an unexpected amount of power, but they also offer a blueprint for what’s to come in the US if the movement started by Google employees continues.

Facebook将终止性骚扰指控的强制仲裁

道格·麦克米伦（Doug MacMillan）为此次**带来了更积极的影响：

Facebook is ending its policy of requiring employee sexual-haras**ent claims to be settled in private arbitration, a day after Google rolled back a similar policy under rising pressure from employees.

The rule change, which will let Facebook employees pursue those claims in court, was announced in an internal post to staff on Friday, a spoke**an for the company said. The social networking giant has also updated its interoffice dating policy to require any executive at a director level or above to disclose if they are dating someone in the company.

亚马逊高管在一次全体员工会议上表达了对亚马逊品牌和ICE的担忧

亚马逊员工仍然对Rekognion感到不满，这是一种备受争议的面部识别技术，亚马逊正在向执法部门**。但高管们并没有屈服，Davey Alba报道：

Andy Jassy, the CEO of the company’s cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services, deflected employee critici**s over how Amazon has aggressively marketed its Amazon Rekognition product to law enforcement agencies across the country and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “I think we’re going to have people who have opini*** that are very wide-ranging, which is great, but we feel really great and really strongly about the value that Amazon Rekognition is providing our customers of all sizes and all types of industries in law enforcement, and out of law enforcement,” Jassy said. He added that he thought it was the government’s resp***ibility to help specify regulati*** around the technology.

白宫使用了一段经过篡改的视频来说谎

Bijan Stephen还有两位专家说是的，Acosta的视频是被篡改的。这是***的另一个。

Gab因宾夕法尼亚州总检察长传唤DNS提供商而叫嚣犯规

宾夕法尼亚州司法部长向Gab的新DNS提供商Epic发出传票。这引起了一些（我认为是合理的）第一修正案的担忧。

PayPal正在取消骄傲男孩和antifa团体使用的帐户

在其他去平台化新闻中，贝宝今天关闭了极左和极右的账户。

在别处

前Instagram领袖Systrom谈论“不健康”的互联网激励

Kevin Systrom仍然不会告诉任何人他为什么真的离开Instagram，这简直让我发疯。然而，他确实表示，他的下一家公司将不会是一家社交公司。我希望这是个谎言！如果Systrom提供了一个SAAS解决方案，用于将Kubernetes与您的CRM系统或其他系统集成，我将翻转办公室的每一张桌子。

2018年10月最具吸引力的Facebook出版商

据Newswip报道，上个月，CNN和《****》超越福克斯新闻，在Facebook出版商排名中占据前两名。

Facebook、亚马逊和谷歌：分解它们的袖珍指南

Kaitlyn Tiffany与哥伦比亚大学法学教授Tim Wu就其关于拆分大型科技公司的新书进行了交谈。他想从Facebook开始：

WU: Well, I think because they face no serious competition, there’s a couple problems. They’ve been able to get away with unchecked privacy abuses, they’ve been undisciplined in how they’ve dealt with advertisers. They’ve warped politics, they’ve been manipulative, they’ve breached privacy too often. A lot of this has to do with the fact that they haven’t faced effective competition. They’re … it’s not too big to fail, it’s too big to be tolerated.

Vox的马特·伊格莱西亚斯因为塔克·卡尔森的评论而在推特上大吃一惊。推特允许这样做。

今天，Twitter没有兑现承诺：我的一位同事喝醉了，公司也没有对最初的骚扰报告做出回应。

有很多坏消息，Snapchat在吸引AR开发者方面处于领先地位

克里·弗林（Kerry Flynn）报道说，Snap最近通过“Lens Fest”吸引了50多名增强现实开发者，这是一个为期三天的创意型研讨会。

为提克托克辩护，提克托克是葡萄树的精神继承者，他快乐而略带畏缩

Julia Alexander带领我们浏览TikTok，她称之为“Vine的精神继承者”

It is easy to roll your eyes at TikTok. It’s what we tend to do with any new app that pulls in a mostly young audience — people originally rolled their eyes at Vine, too. It can be difficult to embrace an entire ecosystem of young creators whose community is built around content designed exclusively for their own entertainment. TikTok succeeds on outrageous stunts, new music, and niche interests — but that’s also what makes it such an inviting place to hang out.

YouTube撤销了对杀害红死人救赎2女权主义者的禁令

我想听听对内容适度感兴趣的订阅者对这一点的看法。一名男子发布了自己玩一款流行的新西部游戏的视频片段，在该游戏中，他袭击并最终杀死了一名不可玩的妇女参政者。YouTube首先禁止了他，然后解除了他的捆绑。Patricia Hernandez报道说，它从未说过原因：

It is unclear how, exactly, YouTube decided to terminate the channel, and what the appeal process for this entire debacle was. For example, did YouTube only take another look because people with clout made a ruckus over it? If so, do **aller channels have a pathway to dispute unfair platform decisi*** that’s just as prompt and effective if they don’t have a big enough microphone to broadcast it? The YouTube spokesperson did not offer these answers to The Verge, but Wyatt notes on social media that he often takes a look at things people tell him about on Twitter, and encouraged people to talk to the official Team YouTube account “with as much supportive documentation you have as possible!”

粉丝小说网站AO3正在处理自己的****辩论

我们自己的档案馆，或称AO3，是一个著名的在线粉丝小说之家。伊丽莎白·明克尔（Elizabeth Minkel）报道说，关于性和内容节制的争论正在激烈进行：

Across the web, platforms and their users are grappling with what digital speech shouldbe protected and the potential links between rhetoric and action. On Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, tech companies are struggling with where to draw lines around free speech and how to moderate and enforce those boundaries. How to limit speech in fiction, however, is a bit more nuanced: do TV shows about serial killers encourage people to commit murder? Does depicting fictional rape create real-life rapists?

When it comes to fan fiction, arguments are usually about the sex, not the violence. When fan-fic readers and writers make moral arguments about disallowing depicti*** of sex acts, they’re talking about obscenity and all its legal precedents. And because the fight for the legal legitimacy of fanworks — which, if they are noncommercial, are protected under fair use — has been such a challenge, it’s even more difficult to moderate content within fan-fic when you’re still having to defend the cultural belief that fan-fic holds value in and of itself.

发射

Facebook悄然推出了一款名为Lasso的TikTok竞争对手应用程序

Facebook的TikTok谋杀克隆现在在应用商店中直播。

Vine的继任者字节将于明年春天发布

Vine的最终回归已经经历了足够多的停顿，并开始使其成为中国社会网络的民主。最新的转变是，曾经被称为V2的东西现在将被称为Byte，创始人domhofmann说，我们可以期待明年看到它。

拿

Facebook阻止了俄罗斯。够了吗？

马克斯·里德（Max Read）回应了其他评论员的观点，他说Facebook最近的真正问题是，国内的巨魔正在运行俄罗斯的剧本来传播两极分化的信息，目前还不清楚该公司能做些什么：

Pushers of fake news and Russian trolls represent, essentially, an engineering problem — they’re bad actors whose badness is predefined in specific and identifiable ways — and Facebook is very good at solving engineering problems. But Americans, exercising our American prerogative to distribute material accusing the Democratic presidential candidate of masterminding coded satanic sex rings, are an everything problem. Facebook can’t staunch the free flow of our bullshit without dramatically changing its operating philosophy (by making truth judgments about the content its users post), its business practices (by hiring a vast army of new employees to make those judgments), and, arguably, its entire design (by leaving freely available attention on the table). You can’t put 80 percent of the country on a communicati*** platform, reward them for posting outrageous content, and expect everyone to rigorously fact-check their status updates.

所以我给我妈妈发了一个新的Facebook门户

Josh Contine的妈妈非常喜欢她的新Facebook门户网站，她个人并不关心科技记者们总是喋喋不休地谈论的隐私问题：

“Who am I going to be worried about? Oh Facebook seeing? No, I’m not worried about Facebook seeing. They’re going to look at my great art collection and say they want to come steal it? No, I never really thought about it.” That’s my 72-year-old mother Sally C***tine’s resp***e to whether she’s worried about her privacy now that she has a Facebook Portal video chat device.

Facebook门户非评论：为什么我没有把Facebook的摄像头放在家里

另一方面，乔安娜·斯特恩把传送门带到自己的房子里时感到不自在(她在工作中测试了它。）

I’ve had one of Facebook ’s FB -2.12% new video-calling gadgets, the Portal+, in my home for the last week. And by “in my home,” I mean, in the basement, in a closet, in a box, in a bag that’s in another bag that’s covered with old coats.

I just couldn’t bring myself to set up Facebook’s camera-embedded screen in the privacy of my family’s home. Can you blame me when you look at the last 16 months?

最后。。。

马克·扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）在Facebook的一个迷因群中吸引哈佛学生

这个故事基本上只是泰勒·洛伦兹（Taylor Lorenz）一条伟大推文的集合体(不是泰勒·斯威夫特，正如我在本周早些时候无意中提到的那样。）但扎克伯格似乎已经决定加入哈佛大学的大学生模因社区——哈佛大学1%的精英学生的模因。当一名学生问辍学同学比尔·盖茨在哪里时，扎克伯格回答说：“等一下，让我来接他”——然后把他关进房间。

盖茨还没有回答。

跟我说

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