一周前，我看了一些关于法国黄背心**活动是如何在Facebook及其应用程序系列上组织起来的，或许还会被它放大的早期报道。Ryan Broderick和Jules Darmanin今天在BuzzFeed上发布了一份新的报告，关注周末最新一轮**活动，活动人士在Facebook上直播了这些活动。记者们将黄背心运动描述为一个反馈循环，从Facebook上所谓的“愤怒团体”开始，并在现实世界中引发暴力**，而这些**反过来又在Facebook上消费。

The Anger Groups finally mobilized in October after a Change.org petition about fuel taxes went viral within a **all Parisian suburb. The petition led to a Facebook event, which has now led to four weeks of similar Facebook events spreading across France. Three people have died so far, hundreds more have been injured, and thousands have been arrested.

This weekend the Facebook feedback loop seems to have completed itself. Protesters brought together by **all, decentralized Facebook groups poured into the streets of Paris, livestreaming the violence for their friends watching back home.

作家们的评价是明确的：“社交网络向自马克龙就任总统以来一直在法国燃烧的大火泼汽油。”据《****》报道，周末有近1400人被捕，这是**者连续第四个周末走上街头。

Facebook是观察法国**活动的一个镜头，但它不是唯一的一个。在《伦敦书评》（London Review of Books）中，杰里米·哈丁（Jeremy Harding）不是根据媒体而是根据其信息来审视这一问题：对法国总统伊曼纽尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）的普遍不满、增税和工资停滞不前。在哈丁的文章中，Facebook只被提到过一次，就在这场运动的组织者之一第一次崭露头角的背景下。

这让一些观察家质疑Facebook在**活动中的作用是否被夸大了。在纽约，Max Read表示，几乎没有证据表明BuzzFeed和其他地方存在这种联系：

It’s a compellingly dystopian way of thinking about the riots, in which hundreds of people have been injured, especially if you’re a Facebook critic or skeptic. Look at what Facebook brings to stable democracies! Look at how Facebook leads good citizens astray! The problem is that there’s very little evidence being provided for this particular narrative. We know that Facebook has adjusted its News Feed sorting in various ways over the last year. We know that some of the protesters have used Facebook to organize themselves. But it seems like a big stretch to go from there to calling the movement “a beast born almost entirely from Facebook,” as Buzzfeed does.

That’s not to say that Facebook was irrelevant to the protests. There seems to be c***ensus that the social network is the organizational platform of choice for the gilets jaunes. But the idea that popular outrage is more about “the power of social networks” than actual French politics, as Bershidsky argues, seems very wrong, and more than a little irresp***ible. “Some in Paris have suggested all gilets jaunes are driven by fake-news and c***piracy theories on Facebook, & are somehow uneducated,” Guardian Paris bureau chief Angelique Chrisafis tweeted on Friday morning. “That was not what I found and it would be a mistake to think that … ” At one barricade, Chrisafis spoke with a wide range of citizens “united in fury at Macron’s way of running France — what they called his top-down approach cut off from ordinary people’s experiences. Everyone could angrily quote examples of Macron’s ‘arrogance.’” This sounds like real grievance, not inauthentically promoted “fake news.”

里德认为，我们不应该将Facebook视为一种“原因”，而应该视为一种“条件”——作为事件发生背景的一部分，尽管它以难以孤立的方式影响着这些事件。

显然，法国**者的行为是出于对**的真诚不满。正如Read指出的那样，不断地问自己这些**是否会发生在Facebook从未建立过的理论世界是无益的。”在我们能够区分和衡量Facebook对社会的影响的程度上，“里德写道，”似乎越来越清楚的是，它的影响在宏观、结构性层面上——在它改变和打开整个媒体政治生态系统的方式上——比直接的个人行为生态系统更为重要。”

我不太愿意把注意力从Facebook对个人的影响上转移开。就在四年前，该公司还被发现为了操纵用户情绪而修改新闻提要。顺便说一句，该研究发现，看到更多积极帖子的人可能会写更多积极帖子。认为法国愤怒团体没有同样地动员他们的听众，现在就否定这一观点似乎为时过早。

也许我们永远无法确切地说，社交网络在将黄背心带上街头的过程中扮演了什么角色。但在这个早期阶段，我觉得我们应该保持开放的心态。与此同时，马克龙正在向**者做出让步：周二晚上，除其他外，他承诺提高最低工资。

推回

我关于凯文·哈特（Kevin Hart）和奥斯卡（Oscars）的文章不幸在周末被谷歌AMP算法（Google AMP algorithm）收录，并在周末成为我们网站上的头条帖子，我收到了一封关于这个主题的大量仇恨邮件。可以理解，大多数人害怕生活在一个多年前讲的坏笑话永远困扰着我们，阻止我们找到工作的世界。苏珊·福勒在《****》上指出了这一点：

我不是在宽恕凯文·哈特的老笑话，他也不是。但我担心我们正在创造一个灾难性的先例。让人们为他们的旧观点负责——即使是他们意识到错误并为此道歉的观点——我们正在制定任何人都无法达到的标准。如果我们不让人们有机会与我们一起成长，我们就无法期望取得进步。

我的问题是哈特从未道歉，甚至当被问及对***的恐惧时，他似乎都很惊讶。毕竟，这是一个“道歉”，它的开头是：“我们的世界正在变得越来越疯狂，我不会让这种疯狂挫败我”，并且从那时起变得更加愤怒。随后，Instagram发布了一篇帖子，他在帖子中说自己“传递了一个道歉的信息”。在游戏后的世界里，好人确实遭受了痛苦，在游戏后的世界里，任何旧推特都可以而且将被用来攻击你，无论是在上下文中还是在上下文中。在我看来，这仍然不是那种情况。

民主

你的应用程序知道你昨晚在哪里，他们不会保守秘密

每个人都在谈论詹妮弗·瓦伦蒂诺·德弗里斯的故事，娜塔莎歌手迈克尔·H。Keller和Aaron Krolik讨论了流行应用程序利用**位置历史记录访问的程度。报告称，虽然数据应该是匿名和聚合的，但在实践中，将特定的运动与个人联系起来往往非常容易。如果你认为《剑桥分析》是一个丑闻，你会想完整地阅读这篇文章：

At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather or other information, The Times found. Several of those businesses claim to track up to 200 million mobile devices in the United States — about half those in use last year. The database reviewed by The Times — a sample of information gathered in 2017 and held by one company — reveals people’s travels in startling detail, accurate to within a few yards and in some cases updated more than 14,000 times a day.

These companies sell, use or ****yze the data to cater to advertisers, retail outlets and even hedge funds seeking insights into c***umer behavior. It’s a hot market, with sales of location-targeted advertising reaching an estimated $21 billion this year. IBM has gotten into the industry, with its purchase of the Weather Channel’s apps. The social network Foursquare remade itself as a location marketing company. Prominent investors in location start-ups include Goldman Sachs and Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder.

谷歌首席执行官将在国会反驳隐私和偏见批评

Sundar Pichai将于周二在立法者面前露面。David McCabe报告称，在他准备好的证词中，他计划驳回搜索结果中存在政治偏见的说法：

“I lead this company without political bias and work to ensure that our products continue to operate that way.” (The claim, popular with many congressional Republicans, that Google’s products are skewed by anti-c***ervative bias has not been proven by evidence or reporting.)

人权组织在Pichai作证前就中国计划向谷歌施压

科林·莱彻报道，数十个人权组织签署了一封***，**谷歌在中国的计划：

More than 60 NGOs signed the document, as well as individuals including Edward Snowden, saying they were “disappointed” by a previous letter from Google. By implementing the project, codenamed Dragonfly, the groups and individuals write, they “fear that the company may knowingly compromise its commitments to human rights and freedom of expression, in exchange for access to the Chinese search market.”

“Actively aiding China’s censorship and surveillance regime is likely to set a terrible precedent for human rights and press freedoms worldwide,” the letter continues.

Facebook因数据滥用在意大利被罚款1140万美元

凯蒂·柯林斯（Katie Collins）报告称，Facebook在注册过程中因信息披露不足而与意大利发生纠纷：

Italy’s Competition Authority on Friday slapped Facebook with two fines that total 10 million euros ($11.4M) for using people’s data for commercial purposes in ways that break the country’s laws.

Italy issued the first fine after deciding that the social network persuaded people to register for accounts on the platform without informing them during the signup process that their data would be collected and used for commercial purposes.

科技行业称，澳大利亚新的加密法存在严重缺陷

Jon Porter探讨了全球对澳大利亚反加密法的普遍反对：

The legislation has “several critical issues” according to a group that represents Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and Oath. Digi, the Australian tech industry group, said that the legislation had the potential to introduce systematic weaknesses that could harm the data security of users.

The lack of continued judicial oversight is also “deeply concerning,” the group said. Law enforcement agencies are required to obtain a warrant to force tech companies to build backdoors into their services, but no further judicial oversight would be necessary to intercept telecommunicati*** once a warrant has been issued. Digi said that “judicial oversight and a warrant-based system” are “the minimum safeguards Australians should expect,” yet these were absent from the new rules.

路透社消息来源：中国人工智能初创企业Megvii以35亿美元的估值筹资5亿美元

资金正流入像Megvii这样的中国初创企业，这将有助于北京打造一个全国性的全景：

Megvii’s latest fundraising comes amid Beijing’s plans to build a ubiquitous closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance network and become an international leader in AI, a technology that is increasingly becoming key to various sectors.

Chinese and some foreign investors are pouring money into start-up firms that specialize in AI given Beijing’s emphasis on the technology. Investments in the sector surged to nearly $2 billion this year via 75 deals, more than four times the total value in the previous two years, according to Refinitiv data.

俄罗斯黑客“企图抹黑”英国反虚假信息运动

英国国家政策研究所是一个**资助的机构，旨在打击俄罗斯的虚假信息。最近，该办公室被发现试图影响国内政治，这与它的使命背道而驰，现在有猜测说是俄罗斯入侵了它。真是一团糟。

在别处

第二次数据泄露后，谷歌将提前四个月关闭Google+

谷歌+你这个无赖：

Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the c***umer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. Google+ will now close to c***umers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days.

According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly.

YouTube禁止骄傲男孩创始人Gavin McInnes侵犯版权

据YouTube称，该公司的另一位右翼评论员、骄傲男孩创始人加文·麦克因内斯（Gavin McInnes）因“多起第三方侵权指控”而被禁止进入YouTube。

为了重建信任，Facebook的扎克伯格求助于微软（美元）

尼克·温菲尔德（Nick Wingfield）报道称，马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）在导师比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）的建议下，试图聘请微软总裁兼首席法律官布拉德·史密斯（Brad Smith）来增强对该公司的信任。史密斯说没有：

Mr. Smith is more public-facing than the top lawyers at most tech companies. Lately, he has become one of the most prominent advocates for closer government scrutiny of artificial intelligence, a technology that promises both huge societal benefits and disrupti***.

Facebook申请了一项专利来计算你未来的位置

这应该有助于重建信任。

Facebook允许个人开发者重新进入修订版的应用程序审查

Anna Hensel报告称，该公司正在略微放宽后剑桥分析数据限制。

用户表示，Facebook的曝光损害了科技行业的形象（美元）

该信息对其订阅者进行了调查（人数不详），发现他们对Facebook非常不信任。调查发现，77%的受访者希望在2018***发生后更少在Facebook工作；70%的人认为Facebook无法在2019年扭转公众舆论；75%的人认为，在危机发生的一年里，人们对它的评价是公正的。

这名男子回应了在Facebook上发布他的抢劫照片的警察，随后引起了欢笑

斯蒂芬妮·麦克尼尔（Stephanie McNeal）讲述了一名男子的故事，他在脸书上贴出一张便条回应警方的抢劫，便条上说他很快就会自首：

Last week, the department featured Akers as its “Wanted Wednesday” criminal of the week on its Facebook page. The department often posts wanted criminals on its page on Wednesdays to urge citizens to keep an eye out.

“Calm down, im going to turn myself in,” he wrote.

现场直播你破产的自己，以获得租金

迈克·维伦斯基（Mike Vilensky）介绍了25岁的乔万·希尔（Jovan Hill），他通过在直播流上向观众要钱来支付房租：

By turns manic, flamboyant and sarcastic, Mr. Hill describes his output of live-streamed videos as a “gay, broke diary” that is inspired in equal parts by 4chan (the anonymous, often vulgar online message board) and his identity as a queer black man.

“Like if a sloppy Tumblr blog and a 4chan thread had a mistake of a child,” he said.

枕头堡想成为Tumblr的替代品，但还没有准备好

朱莉娅·亚历山大（Julia Alexander）探索了枕头堡，这是渴望色情的Tumblr侨民的潜在避难所：

Pillowfort is a young, blog-centric social platform inspired by early LiveJournal communities and Tumblr fans. People can post their photos, written text, illustrati***, and GIFs, and share those creati*** with others. There are opti*** for both public and private settings, but the site is designed to allow people to spread their work, connect with like-minded individuals, and create communities — including ones that appreciate sexual writing and imagery.

Now, it’s being thrust into the spotlight ahead of Tumblr’s decision to remove “***** content,” a controversial change met with scorn from its impassioned community. But Pillowfort remains a work in progress. Since launching on Kickstarter and Indiegogo earlier this year, Pillowfort has only rolled out beta invites to a **all group of people for testing. And although it’s active, the site is often barely functional, according to people who have used the service over the past couple of months.

发射

Instagram将语音信息带到您的DMs中

这让人感觉不像Instagram的任何人都热切想要构建的功能，更像是一个没有人能想出好理由拒绝的想法。这就是特征爬行的方式。

满足无底匹诺曹，一个新的评级为一个虚假的索赔重复了一遍又一遍

我们的一位政客在很多事情上撒了很多谎，以至于事实核查人员不得不发明一种新的评级系统，以正确解释从标准的政治谎言到彻头彻尾的虚假信息运动的转变。在你点击文章之前，看看你是否能猜出政治家的名字！！

拿

不要沉迷于Facebook的“中国论”

Tim Wu对如果Facebook不建立全球社交网络，中国将：

To accept this argument would be a mistake, for it betrays and ignores hard-won less*** about the folly of an industrial policy centered on “national champi***,” especially in the tech sector. What Facebook is really asking for is to be embraced and protected as America’s very own social media monopolist, bravely doing battle overseas. But both history and basic economics suggest we do much better trusting that fierce competition at home yields stronger industries overall.

通过Instagram重新发现我的女儿

Helene Stapinski写到Instagram是如何帮助她理解她15岁的女儿的：

Social media has been blamed for ruining our democracy, shortening our children’s attention spans and undermining the fabric of society. But through it, I was able to be with Paulina out in the world again, to see what she sees, to virtually stand beside her and witness the people and places she moves through, in nearly real time. Not in a parent-policing role, but in a wonderful-world sort of way.

我与Facebook皇后谢丽尔·桑德伯格的令人困惑的晚餐

维吉尼亚·赫弗南满怀渴望地回忆起她与谢丽尔·桑德伯格共进的晚餐：

In other words, I idolized Sheryl Sandberg the woman—good for any sister who finds a way to amass $1.6 billion for being at parties and steering clear of some boring ops job—but from the first minute I saw her in person in 2013 I was very, very concerned about Facebook. It dawned on me that Sandberg was human—a **all, vain, bright, self-absorbed, convivial everywoman with a talent for money and fame—and that no one human, even Sandberg, could discipline the galactic, epochal spiritual wildfire that Mark Zuckerberg had inflicted on the Internet.

最后。。。

推特首席执行官杰克·多尔西（Jack Dorsey）向缅甸推广旅游业，在那里，社交媒体促成了种族灭绝

推特首席执行官杰克·多尔西（Jack Dorsey）刚刚因短暂举着有人交给他的牌子而引发了一场国际事件，他最近决定通过为期10天的静心静修来放松自己。他是在缅甸这样做的。在缅甸，社交媒体与针对***少数民族的暴力行为有着可信的联系。然后，他在推特上讲述了他是如何利用这段时间来思考疼痛是如何凭空想象出来的，这对许多慢性疼痛患者来说都是新闻，他们随后对他进行了评分。

在未来，科技公司的首席执行官们可能希望以10天冥想静修的方式来讨论他们的假期。也就是说：默默地。

跟我说

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