编程说明：我明天和周五都有任务。接口将在周一返回。

美国东部时间周三凌晨2:30左右，Facebook向我发送了一份关于TechCrunch周二披露的备受争议的市场研究计划的最新消息。该公司表示，该计划将在苹果设备上终止，并立即生效。它还对TechCrunch报告中的一些语言提出了质疑：

“Key facts about this market research program are being ignored,” the company said. “Despite early reports, there was nothing ‘secret’ about this; it was literally called the Facebook Research App. It wasn’t ‘spying’ as all of the people who signed up to participate went through a clear on-boarding process asking for their permission and were paid to participate. Finally, less than 5 percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research program were teens. All of them with signed parental c***ent forms.”

我认为，其中一些是公平的：将一个在各种应用程序上公开广告的程序称为Facebook Research（一个秘密间谍程序）似乎是错误的。另一方面，参与调查的青少年比例似乎不如他们一开始就成为目标的事实那么重要，即使头条新闻（包括我自己的头条新闻）强调了这一点。“父母同意书”是一个屏幕，任何人都可以快速点击过去。

在周三凌晨，我不知道的是，Facebook在本案中已经失去了主要监管机构的支持：苹果公司，该公司昨晚采取措施，使支持市场调查计划和Facebook用于内部测试的每一个应用程序的根证书失效，为全球数万名员工提供服务。以下是汤姆·沃伦和杰克·卡斯特伦克斯：

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versi*** of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

正如我昨天在这里指出的，苹果和Facebook之间的紧张关系已经持续了一段时间。对于苹果首席执行官蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook），Facebook及其广告支持的科技巨头谷歌（Google）为其打造了方便的打孔袋。去年，在一次关于隐私权是一项人权的演讲中，他将这些公司称为“数据产业综合体”。库克希望推广这样一种理念，即iOS设备比其他设备更有价值，因为它们不使用基于广告的商业模式(2016年，在苹果五年来寻求建立自己的基于广告的商业模式的努力失败后，他的言论急剧升级。）

Facebook已经轻描淡写地回击：马克·扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）去年称库克对Facebook商业模式的评论“极其油嘴滑舌”。但扎克伯格只能走这么远。库克可以打开一个开关，从每个iOS用户的设备上删除Facebook应用程序。Facebook可能是世界上最强大的公司之一，但从这个角度来看，它开始显得相当脆弱。

通过今天宣布Facebook的企业证书无效，库克扳动了他的一个较小的开关。Rob Price报道说，今天Facebook内部的结果是一片混乱(其他人跟我说的差不多。）

The move dramatically escalated tensi*** between Facebook and Apple, and has left Facebook employees unable to communicate with colleagues, access internal information, and even use company transportation.

就这样，Facebook的一整天都被浪费了。一场冷战突然升级为一场枪战。

反对Facebook市场调查工作的理由是这样的：在Facebook面临越来越多的数据收集问题之际，该公司对苹果的开发者政策进行了彻底的修改，以窃取一个人拥有的一些最敏感的数据，包括一些青少年的数据。

这包括来自自愿参与的人的朋友的数据——正如伊西·拉波斯基所指出的，这是剑桥分析丑闻的核心。立法者们想知道Facebook的目标人群中的一些人——其中包括13岁的儿童——是否能够有意义地表示同意。”窃听青少年不是研究，也永远不应该被允许。

此外，支持隐私的苹果公司可能会对更多公司追随Facebook的脚步，寻求用户**的根级别访问的前景感到畏缩，即使这些公司为这种特权付钱给用户。不难想象，一个糟糕的演员可以通过对单个设备的控制水平做些什么。

但Facebook的研究也有争议，我从你们中的一些人那里听说了。一个是它很普遍——事实上，到今天为止，谷歌不得不从其企业开发计划中删除一个类似的应用程序(二是Facebook的计划寻求并获得了参与者的同意，而说人们不应该提供他们的同意，这是一种奇怪的恩惠。第三，通过支付志愿者的费用，他们基本上成为了承包商——为将Facebook研究纳入公司的企业应用程序部署提供了遮羞布。

对于那些认为Facebook应该被迫获取和保留更少的消费者数据的人来说，今天可能感觉是一场胜利。在这种观点下，苹果介入并保护了消费者《****》的凯文·鲁斯（Kevin Roose）在推特上写道：“苹果现在是Facebook事实上的隐私监管机构，这很奇怪，但可能是必要的/不可避免的。”

但如果你对竞争更感兴趣，今天的新闻可能会让你感到寒意。一家大型平台宣布另一家大型平台的市场研究计划不合适，然后用塔诺斯式的手指扣将其取消。用我老板尼莱·帕特尔的话说：

Hi, I’m the nagging voice in the back of your head pointing out that it’s pretty intense that Apple can simply decide to prevent people from running code on their phones.

Facebook是一个开明的独裁政权，但苹果也是。蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）和他的副手决定了一个庞大经济体的条件，并能一时兴起改变这个经济体。今天，苹果的行为可能与其隐私原则不一致，这对一些消费者有利(这对那些指望着那张20美元的礼品卡的人来说是一种伤害！）但是，正如鲁斯所说，苹果面临着更多的压力，要成为事实上的隐私监管机构，我们可能会对其垄断权力感到不安。

随着iPhone作为开发平台的成熟，这一领域的担忧在过去几年中不断发展。苹果公司目前正面临最高**的诉讼，指控其应用商店垄断导致客户被滥收费用。我怀疑今后还会有更多这样的审查。

综上所述：Facebook内部建立这一市场研究项目的团队似乎鲁莽行事，因为这关系到他们的同事。与报道该公司的大多数记者相比，我更讨厌对该公司过去的“快速行动”和“突破事物”的座右铭大加吹捧，但在这个案例中，Facebook授权其工程师在审查最少的情况下运送几乎任何东西的决定确实再次困扰着它。

我仍然相信脸谱网会很好地考虑如何寻找更少的用户数据，并开发新的程序来清除公司已经收集到的数据。在商誉严重短缺的时候，它可能会购买该公司的商誉。或者，它可能会简单地将今天的出色业绩报告视为一个证据，证明媒体的狗屎堆再一次未能解释20亿用户对其产品的真实影响，不管它在这一过程中犯了什么错误。

但是，尽管我们在这里关注Facebook的举动，我希望我们至少也能为苹果付出同样的努力。如果蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）能在Facebook的日子里造成如此大的破坏，无论多么合理，想象一下苹果对我们其他人有多大的影响力。

民主

这是你离开Facebook的大脑

本尼迪克特·凯里（Benedict Carey）报道了斯坦福大学的一项新研究，该研究涉及暂时离开Facebook的积极和消极后果：

Expect the c***equences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. A **all bump in one’s daily moods and life satisfaction. And, for the average Facebook user, an extra hour a day of downtime. […]

The new study, a randomized trial financed principally by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a nonpartisan supporter of research in science, technology and economics, sketches out a nuanced, balanced portrait of daily use that is unlikely to satisfy either critics or supporters of the platform.

美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）正在起诉一名加利福尼亚州治安官，指控他在Facebook上阻止活动人士

马克纳·凯利（Makena Kelly）报道，在总统阻止推特批评者的案件中胜诉后，美国公民自由联盟（American Civil Liberties Union）提起诉讼，指控萨克拉门托的一名治安官在其官方Facebook页面上非法阻止黑人生命事件活动人士

According to the ACLU, two Black Lives Matter Sacramento leaders were blocked by Sheriff Scott Jones on Facebook after Jones refused to investigate the death of Mikel McIntyre, who was killed by Sacramento deputies in 2017. This past fall, Jones posted on his official Facebook page to seek support, but was met with critici** which prompted him to block BLM leaders Tanya Faison and Sonia Lewis.

When a page blocks someone on social media platforms, the blocked user is no longer able to view or interact with posts on that page. Because the page in question was operated by the sheriff, a government official, the block raises unique c***titutional issues.

想在Facebook上发布虚假新闻而逍遥法外吗？只需更改您的网站域。

Daniel Funke探讨了Facebook上的假新闻发布者如何通过更换网络主机来逃避惩罚：

Of the 45 flagged stories that we identified at the time, 12 are still live on News Punch’s site with the same headline. Of those, none were flagged as false on Facebook as of publication.

That means that — even though fact-checkers like have already debunked these stories — users can share old YourNewsWire stories from News Punch links without receiving a warning that they’re false. The fake news site itself could even repost them and find a new audience. And some of the stories have.

欧盟选举前我们防止滥用权力工作的最新进展

在欧盟选举前夕，谷歌正在采取新措施保护用户账户，包括类似于Facebook的新广告客户注册要求。它还向记者提供免费的专门工具。

亚马逊将资助130多所纽约高中的计算机科学课程

亚马逊正试图在纽约市赢得一些好感，在那里建立地区办事处1的计划遭到了广泛的批评。它现在将资助数十个计算机科学项目。

在别处

尽管有丑闻和隐私问题，Facebook仍在不断增长

从公司的角度来看，Facebook最新的收益报告中最重要的一点可能是使用量正在增长：

There were more than 1.52 billion people using Facebook every day in December 2018, a 9 percent increase year over year. Monthly active users were also up 9 percent year over year, with 2.32 billion as of December 31st.

Those numbers are both up from last quarter by 1.8 percent, improving on a three-month stretch that saw a slight usage decline in the US and Europe. This quarter’s growth is by no means the best Facebook has had, but it does mark a return to the company’s usual upward trend after signs that it might be beginning to falter.

马克·扎克伯格（MarkZuckerberg）发布了关于Facebook 2019年优先事项的帖子

扎克伯格表示，Facebook今年有四个优先事项：

First, continue making progress on the major social issues facing the internet and our company.

Second, build new experiences that meaningfully improve people’s lives today and set the stage for even bigger improvements in the future.

Third, keep building our business by supporting the milli*** of businesses — mostly **all businesses — that rely on our services to grow and create jobs.

And fourth, communicate more transparently about what we’re doing and the role our services play in the world.

EFF律师加入WhatsApp担任隐私政策经理

Taylor Hatmaker报告说，Facebook已经吸引了一些隐私倡导者从内部着手解决政策问题：

Next month, longtime Electronic Frontier Foundation counsel Nate Cardozo will join WhatsApp, Facebook’s encrypted chat app. Cardozo most recently held the position of Senior Information Security Counsel with the EFF where he worked closely with the organization on cybersecurity policy. As his bio there reads, Cardozo is “an expert in technology law and civil liberties” and already works with private companies on privacy policies that protect user rights.

Facebook真的知道它有多少假账户吗？

杰克·尼卡斯（Jack Nicas）探索了准确测量Facebook上虚假账户的挑战(正如罗布·霍宁所指出的那样，假账户的存在也可以被视为一个充满希望的迹象，表明一个完美的全球全景游戏尚未完成，它只存在于利用我们当中最脆弱的群体！）

Facebook cut its estimate of fake accounts significantly in 2016. A year later, it more than quadrupled the estimate. And on Wednesday, in **all print at the bottom of a slide about earnings, Facebook increased the estimate by 36 percent, to 116 million. So what’s going on?

Facebook arrives at its estimates by ****yzing a sample of accounts, looking “for names that appear to be fake or other behavior that appears inauthentic,” the company said in securities filings. “We apply significant judgment in making this determination.”

对于处理跟踪者的拖缆，Twitch的解决方案有不足之处

Nathan Grayson报道了一名妇女，她被Twitch上的爬行动物所困扰，而亚马逊所有的公司似乎对此无能为力。她的罪行：倡导电子游戏的多样性：

Whenever she streams, she can count on people in her community getting creepy DMs, either from a person who goes by the handle “Mosheddy” or his friends, some of whom have created accounts that specifically mention Mosheddy to taunt her. Other channels DePass has hosted, sent her community into using Twitch’s “raid” feature, or even just decided to watch on her own have also ended up being trolled by Mosheddy and his sympathizers.

This is all happening despite a suite of Twitch tools and a terms of service that should, in theory, enable streamers to curate their communities and experiences—and, most importantly, protect themselves from users they feel threatened or upset by. DePass’ troll has uncovered a series of easily exploitable loopholes. Sure, now that DePass has banned him, he can’t talk in her channel’s chat, but he can still follow it, see who’s in her community, DM them, and tag along any time DePass decides to hit up another channel.

拿

技术专家如何帮助应对错误信息和其他社会危害

布伦丹·尼汉（Brendan Nyhan）和帕特里克·鲍尔（Patrick Ball）以谷歌**的成功为例，认为大型科技公司的员工应该向老板施加更大的内部压力，要求他们进行改革：

Encouraging the tech giants to do more to limit the spread of misinformation may be the least bad solution to the problem that now confronts us. The effectiveness of these efforts and their c***istency with our values is difficult to monitor from outside of these massive and powerful firms.

In this sense, the employees of Facebook, Google, and other platforms have been entrusted with a great resp***ibility; we must encourage them to act as advocates for socially resp***ible computing and protect and reward those who come forward when those principles are violated.

Netflix纪录片《黑客大盗》将剑桥分析丑闻变成了一出闹剧

Adi Robertson对今年晚些时候将要前往Netflix的关于Cambridge Analytica的新纪录片印象不深：

The Great Hack is sometimes fascinating, especially when it’s delving into the shady inner workings of Cambridge Analytica. And it covers timely and important themes. But for a film about resisting propaganda, it’s surprisingly credulous.

Cambridge Analytica clearly breached Facebook users’ trust. There’s far less evidence that its “psychographic” tactics worked any better than traditional canvassing and broadly targeted ads. Some reports paint the company as a bumbling snake-oil hawker, suggesting that Mercer forced candidates to hire it as a condition of his donati***. But while The Great Hack’s subjects hammer Cambridge Analytica for all sorts of decepti***, they appear to accept its sales pitch at face value — and so do the filmmakers, who present company marketing material and promotional speeches as unchallenged fact.

BuzzFeed将裁员视为民主党的紧急情况

如果BuzzFeed（每月有6.9亿观众）不能在网上建立一家广告支持的媒体公司，谁能呢？法哈德·曼乔担心这对我们大家意味着什么(我也是。）

More than anyone else in media, BuzzFeed’s founder, Jonah Peretti, bet on symbioses with the tech platforms. He understood that the tech giants would keep getting bigger, but to him that was a feature, not a bug. By creating content that hooked into their algorithms, he imagined BuzzFeed getting bigger — and making money — along with them.

At the least, the layoffs suggest the tragic folly of Mr. Peretti’s thinking. Google and Facebook have no economic incentive for symbiosis; everything BuzzFeed can do for them can also be done by the online hordes who’ll make content without pay.

So where does that leave media? Bereft.

一位早期Facebook投资者的反Facebook宣言

如果你喜欢你的Facebook评论中夹杂着作者的唾沫，你可能会喜欢汤姆·比塞尔对罗杰·麦克纳米的《扎克》的评论(我没有

It’s no stretch to posit that because human neurotran**itters respond to the platform’s iconic use of a certain shade of blue, and spark with dopamine upon receiving a “like” or “tag” notification, desperate children are now living in cages and a raving madman occupies the Oval Office. Not even Orwell, after a feast of psilocybin, could have predicted thisdystopia. This one’s all ours.

最后。。。

这家伙不小心在Twitch上睡着了，醒来时有数百人在观看

Jesse Daugherty喜欢向少数粉丝播放自己玩电子游戏的情景。然后他在广播时睡着了，醒来时看到了他有史以来最大的听众：

In a rather endearing clip on his channel, Daugherty can be seen slowly coming to and realizing how big his audience had gotten. The clip, titled “The awakening,” now has more than 2.6 million views.

“I saw the total of 200 and I thought that was wrong,” he said. “Then I saw how fast the chat was moving and I was like, okay, that’s not wrong.”

今年，我一直在告诉人们不要在Twitch上睡觉，因为Twitch是一个快速发展的社交网络，但对这个家伙来说，它似乎工作得很好。

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