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今天，有两个关于Facebook打击坏人的故事。

亚历克斯·琼斯（Alex Jones）在经历了漫长的欺凌行为后，失去了他的infowar，被各大平台禁止，这已经过去了近六个月。在此后的时间里，他吸引新追随者的能力被彻底削弱了——但这并不是因为他缺乏尝试。

Facebook阻止他和他的同事创建类似于去年因涉及欺凌、仇恨言论和图形暴力的违规行为而禁止的四个新页面。但该政策有一个漏洞，允许现有页面的管理员重新调整旧页面的用途，直到今天。我就在这边缘：

Previously, Facebook would prevent administrators of banned pages from creating similar pages in the future. But the company found that some administrators have attempted to evade enforcement by repurposing pages that they had created before their bans in an effort to rebuild their online communities.

Today’s move marks the first time Facebook has removed pages in line with the updated policy. The company did not disclose all of the ways in which the freshly banned Jones pages resembled old pages, but said that they used similar titles. Jones is the creator of Infowars, which was kicked off platforms including Apple Podcasts, Twitter, and PayPal in addition to Facebook last summer.

这是Facebook今天采取的第一次重大执法行动。Pranav Dixit介绍了BuzzFeed中的第二个：

Facebook has banned four insurgent groups who have been fighting against Myanmar’s military from using its platform, according to a company blog post published Tuesday.

The banned groups include the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDA), the Kachin Independence Army, and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Facebook said that all “praise, support, and representation” related to these groups will also be removed from the platform as soon as the company becomes aware of it.

Dixit报道说，MNDA被指责造成至少30人死亡，而机管局上月杀害了13名警察。脸谱网表示，这些清除行动并没有回应缅甸**的请求，缅甸**本身也曾多次收到脸谱网的禁令。

在推特上，记者凯利E。朗曾写过关于缅甸的文章，他担心禁止这些“民族武装组织”会使合法的政治言论沉默。”她写道：“在这次倒下行动中，他们可以说是在压制民间社会的声音。”比如，他们会禁止世界上所有的EAO吗？每个军队？他们会在停火后更新黑名单吗；废除？参与武装斗争的少数民族积极分子是否沉默？其影响可能是广泛的，不可能被考虑清楚。”

但在一篇博客文章中，Facebook辩称，它正试图做批评者长期以来要求它做的事情：防止其服务被用于煽动暴力：

“There is clear evidence that these organizati*** have been resp***ible for attacks against civilians and have engaged in violence in Myanmar, and we want to prevent them from using our services to further inflame tensi*** on the ground.”

无论如何，这一趋势在全世界都是显而易见的：Facebook正在比目前更多的地方、更公开地围绕协调的不真实行为和煽动暴力来执行其政策。周四，该公司报告称在印度尼西亚（207页，800个Facebook账户，546个群组，208个Instagram账户）和伊朗（262页，356个Facebook账户，3个群组，162个Instagram账户）删除了此类内容

1月17日，它宣布对俄罗斯的协调信息行动进行新的撤军。1月10日，这是菲律宾一个出于政治动机的垃圾邮件网络被摧毁。

当然，从某种程度上说，这种轻率的撤军说明了Facebook自我挑战的严重性。国家一级的行为体在世界各地滥用其服务，有时影响很大。该公司已经确定了更多的这些演员，这不一定是值得庆祝的原因。

到目前为止，“进步”已经成为马克·扎克伯格最常重复的话题之一我们在这些问题上取得了真正的进展，并建立了一些世界上最先进的系统来解决这些问题，”他在周一发表的15周年纪念文章中写道。“我们在这些问题上继续取得进展至关重要。”

Facebook面临的一个关键挑战是，它同时处理涉及如此多维度的难题，以至于很难量化“进展”到底是什么样子。作战信息作战并不能简单地归结为几个指标，随着时间的推移，这些指标可以上下移动。对于我来说，不可能识别出那些目标帖子，如果Facebook只能将球踢穿，那么这些帖子将导致大多数批评者同意该平台已经“修复”

正是出于这个原因，我认为执法行动的上升是值得注意的。”在Facebook看来，“进步”将是一件非常重要的事情。但其中一个可能的情况是，在更多的国家，更多地禁止国家层面的行为体，让他们更难再回来。

民主

脸谱网的高管们悄悄地在国会工作

David McCabe报道，Facebook产品合作副总裁Ime Archibong将于本周会见众议院和参议院的工作人员。

Archibong will brief staff members who work for members of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees — both of which will play a key role in the debate over a national privacy law — on Tuesday. Expect the company’s critics to take an interest: Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) office confirmed his staff will attend the briefing.

独家：Facebook新增事实调查合作伙伴

Snopes出局了，但Facebook的名册上增加了一个新的事实核查员。莎拉·菲舍尔报道说，这叫做主角故事。

网络广告禁令中的**安全装置

Zusha Elinson报告说，为了使**拥有更安全，安全锁等设备被禁止在Facebook和谷歌上****：

Digital marketing giants including Facebook and Alphabet Inc.’s Google often reject marketing from companies like Zore, the maker of a high-tech, quick-release gun lock, due to policies intended to forbid ads for the firearms themselves, manufacturers of the devices say.

“It really blocked all the ways we wanted to get people,” said Eytan Morgenstern, Zore’s director of communicati***. “We’re selling to gun owners and they have to understand why it works.”

揭露：黑钱脱欧广告充斥社交媒体

彼得·吉奥根（Peter Geoghegan）写到了支持脱欧的Facebook广告的神秘新支出：

A single pro-Brexit group with almost no public presence spent almost £50,000 on Facebook. Britain’s Future – which does not declare its funders and has no published address – is running hundreds of very localised targeted ads pushing for ‘no deal’.

Politicians and campaigners have called for greater transparency of political advertising. Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said: “We have no idea who these people are or where their money comes from. It shows again how unfit for purpose the rules are that govern online campaigning and the use of data.”

独家报道：乌克兰称针对选举的网络攻击激增

Pavel Polityuk报道了俄罗斯人在美国非选举季节所做的事情：

Serhiy Demedyuk told Reuters the attackers were using virus-infected greeting cards, shopping invitati***, offers for software updates and other malicious “phishing” material intended to steal passwords and personal information.

Ten weeks before the electi***, hackers were also buying personal details of election officials, Demedyuk said, paying in cryptocurrency on the dark web, part of the internet accessible only through certain software and typically used anonymously.

在别处

Snapchat用户群保持稳定，Snap股票上涨

Snap今天公布了收益。用户数量持平，销售收入上升，现金消耗减少（损失仅为1.92亿美元）。这消息使股票暴涨。

Facebook内部关于订阅、内容监管的决策（美元）

这基本上是两个（好！）里德·阿尔博格蒂（Reed Albergotti）关于Facebook的故事层出不穷——一个是关于用户补贴的无广告Facebook的概念，一个是关于Facebook外包内容节制的原因。简言之：为了保持行业领先的利润率：

By implementing this philosophy, Facebook was able to create an advertising business with margins similar to Google’s. Even as Facebook’s hiring soared, its profits rose faster, according to regulatory filings. Around the time of the IPO, Ms. Sandberg once said in an internal meeting that she wanted to turn Facebook into the most profitable company in history, according to a person in the meeting.

Mr. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, has a strong competitive instinct and relished the idea of outshining Google, according to people who know him.

15年的Facebook友谊不会消失

朱莉·贝克（Julie Beck）写道，她认为Facebook的核心功能是：不自然地保留脆弱的社会关系：

The social network is 15 years old this Monday, and in taking stock of the effects of its decade and a half of existence on people’s social lives, this is what stands out the most: Facebook is where friendships go to never quite die.

The site has created an entirely new category of relati***hip, one that simply couldn’t have existed for most of human history—the vestigial friendship. It’s the one you’ve evolved out of, the one that would normally have faded out of your life, but which, thanks to Facebook, is instead still hanging around. Having access to this diffuse network of people you once knew can be pleasant—a curio cabinet of memories—or annoying; if those good memories get spoiled by an old friend’s new posts; or helpful, if you need to poll a large group for information. But it is, above all, new and unusual.

青少年不使用Facebook，但他们也无法逃避

艾米丽·德雷福斯与那些从未了解没有Facebook的世界的青少年交谈。值得注意的是，对于不使用Facebook的青少年来说，社交网络主要是一个需要管理的威胁：

These children are aware of Facebook from the youngest of ages, and as they grow up, it becomes something they have to actively negotiate with their parents. Rather than the classic 21st-century worry about what kids are doing online, Facebook use requires a sort of role reversal. For the families who spoke to WIRED, it’s often the teens asking the parents to limit what they post, or how much time they spend on the site. While a few teens mentioned broader privacy issues and the impact Facebook is having on society, most focused on more immediate concerns—what their parents were posting about them.

Jordyn, a 19-year-old who has had her own Facebook account for a few years, recently discovered with horror that her mom had posted a photo of her from middle school “after a particularly traumatic haircut.” “I was super mad about it for sure. I had super curly hair and had to get it cut very short after I burnt some off!“ she told WIRED over Twitter DM. “She teased me about it but took it down pretty quickly, so I didn’t mind much. I personally chose any photo she posted of me for almost a month after that.”

有意义的播客#148

Sam Harris的播客是Jack Dorsey正在谈论的2019年播客巡演的最新一站。亮点：可编辑的推文可能会有不同的形式，这取决于您是在纠正错误还是试图澄清旧推文。多尔西还说，like按钮是空的，具有破坏性(多尔西还录制了一段YouTube上与我完全不认识的加德·萨阿德的对话。）

Reddit正在筹集近30亿美元的巨额资金

关于Reddit的反弹，我们谈得够多了吗？它似乎已经打压了社区中最糟糕的部分，同时也增加了广告收入，而且总体上是人们在线闲逛的一个充满活力的地方。Josh Contine报告称，投资者已经注意到：

As more people seek esoteric community and off-kilter entertainment online, Reddit continues to grow its link-sharing forums. Indeed, 330 million monthly active users now frequent its 150,000 Subreddits. That warrants the boost to its valuation, which previously reached $1.8 billion when it raised $200 million in July 2017. As of then, Reddit’s majority stake was still held by publisher Conde Nast, which bought in back in 2006 just a year after the site launched. Reddit had raised $250 million previously, so the new round will push it to $400 million to $550 million in total funding.

我把苹果从我的生活中剪掉了。这是毁灭性的

克什米尔·希尔以一周没有苹果的日子，试图超越五大科技公司的能力，结束了她的精彩系列(她正在计划最后一周，在这一周里，她试图一次阻止所有五个人，我担心她的安全！！！）

“Fortnite”在Marshmello音乐会上共有1000万名球员

周六，一位EDM DJ在一个视频游戏内举办了一场音乐会，可能有1000万人同时观看了这场音乐会。这里的来源有点不稳定，但是如果有人怀疑Fortnite和我在这里写的任何其他地方一样，是一个社交空间，那你就去吧。

发射

Facebook Messenger有一个未发送的功能

TechCrunch发现Facebook在没有告知收件人的情况下删除了马克·扎克伯格的所有邮件——或者删除了他们的邮件——几个月后，消费者现在可以使用同一功能的中性版本。

YouTube将其类似Instagram的“探索”选项卡的测试扩展到更多设备

莎拉·佩雷斯（Sarah Perez）报道说，YouTube正在扩大其对探索页面的测试，该页面实际上只是Instagram探索页面，但适用于YouTube。

2019年的新表情符号包括机械臂、助听器和轮椅

今年我们的表情符号语言新增了59个新对象，重点是包含。

拿

为什么对假新闻的恐惧被夸大了

Brendan Nyhan说我们不应该太担心假新闻：

More than two years later, we can now evaluate these claims. And it turns out that many of the initial conclusi*** that observers reached about the scope of fake news c***umption, and its effects on our politics, were exaggerated or incorrect. Relatively few people c***umed this form of content directly during the 2016 campaign, and even fewer did so before the 2018 election. Fake news c***umption is concentrated among a narrow subset of Americans with the most c***ervative news diets. And, most notably, no credible evidence exists that exposure to fake news changed the outcome of the 2016 election. […]

Many important concerns about online misinformation still remain, including the influence of the fake news audience, the difficulty of countering fake news at scale, the dangers of Facebook’s size, and the threat of YouTube-based radicalization. But none of these questi*** can be adequately addressed without creating a reality-based debate that puts fake news in context as just one of the many sources of misinformation in our politics.

该死的Jerry的成功就是Instagram的失败

Brian Feldman说，Elliott Tebele开创了在Instagram上窃取他人笑话并将其货币化的艺术，他创建的meme账户是对其主机平台的控诉：

As far as I can tell, however, Instagram has never punished a major meme account for sharing content that was not “authentic.” During the holiday season late last year, many meme accounts were purged, but Instagram told The Atlantic that the purge was to punish people for selling or trading their accounts, not for content theft.

It has been more than three years since the Fat Jew was first called out for systematically stealing jokes. In that time, some meme accounts have instituted policies of self-regulation in which they promised to credit those they rip off, even if they don’t get permission to repost others’ work. Those policies still fall short of Instagram’s own. The policy that Tebele announced over the weekend — only posting things he gets permission to put up beforehand — is literally Instagram’s own official policy. Yet Instagram has, as far as I can tell, never taken substantial action against meme accounts like @****jerry.

最后。。。

在征服世界之前，Facebook征服了哈佛

亚历克西斯·马德里加尔（Alexis Madrigal）的文章中有一个有趣的细节，讲述了Facebook最早的时代，当时它只存在于哈佛大学，年轻的马克·扎克伯格问院长哈里·刘易斯（Harry Lewis），他是否能将刘易斯描述为婴儿网络的中心节点：

“I had a very interesting reaction,” Lewis told me recently. “I told him, ‘It’s all public information, but there is somehow a point at which aggregation of too much public information begins to feel like an invasion of privacy.’ So ‘invasion of privacy’ was actually in the very first email that I wrote to Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 in resp***e to the first glimpse of the prototype.”

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