Geert Lovink on Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:03:06 +0100 (CET)


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<nettime> "Facebook is the New Crapware"


Dear nettimers, a. you have all left Facebook by now (or ages ago), b. you are still on it, c. could not be bothered, d. are busy with more relevant topics. Here is some material in case you want to be uptodate about the social media question. We’re now ten months into the Cambridge Analytica case and things do not look very well for Marc Zuckerberg. In March-April 2018 most of us were still cynical… things would never change. Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we’ve been running the Unlike Us network since 2011--and we can indeed see a significant change over the past year. What still lacks is a concerted effort to identify and promote alternatives. What is clear is that there won't be one… Below are some of the pointers Unlike Us members been collecting over the past two months. Best, Geert

Facebook is the new crapware

Technological Sovereignty, Volume 2

Leaving Facebook as a religious experience

Reality Check Facebook by Aaron Greenspan (a must-read report)


Second thoughts of corporate Silicon Valley pundit Jeff Jarvis on FB

Fortnite was 2018s most important social network

How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

Revealed: how Italy's populists used Facebook to win power

Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook?

How can I remove Google from my life?

We all fell for Facebook’s utopianism, but the mask is at last being torn away
  
Did Facebook Cause Riots in France?

The New York Facebook Pop-Up Privacy Cafe

Did you delette your FB account in 2018?

Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html

The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/its-time-for-all-of-us-to-finally-delete-facebook.html

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

The Facebook Era is Over
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-era-over-gina-bianchini/

Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-reality-buy-ads-on-facebook-or-risk-losing-the-election-1541171620

How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules

How much is social media worth? Estimating the value of Facebook by paying users to stop using it
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101

Court Case doc of Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW e.V.
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=209357&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2968825

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html

The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/its-time-for-all-of-us-to-finally-delete-facebook.html

From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been bought up by big money | Evgeny Morozov | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/airbnb-city-bikes-sharing-economy-big-money

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

The Facebook Era is Over
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-era-over-gina-bianchini/

Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-reality-buy-ads-on-facebook-or-risk-losing-the-election-1541171620

How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/13/they-dont-care-facebook-fact-checking-in-disarray-as-journalists-push-to-cut-ties

Sheryl Sandberg’s Campaign
https://www.wired.com/story/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-empress-befuddling-dinner/

The War on Sex
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/the-internet-war-on-sex-is-here/

Facebook's seized files published by UK MPs

Yellow Jackets and What Happens When Facebook Gets Involved With Local News

From: "Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com [bytesforall_readers]" 

Part 1: Is Facebook in India truly independent of political influence?
Not really -- it has backed Modi and the BJP (in India)
https://www.newsclick.in/part-1-facebook-india-truly-independent-political-influence

Part 2: Did Facebook in India help Modi and the BJP, or was it vice
versa?
https://www.newsclick.in/part-2-did-facebook-india-help-bjp-and-modi-or-was-it-vice-versa

Part 3: Who were the key players for Facebook's support to Modi and the
BJP?
https://www.newsclick.in/part-3-who-were-key-players-responsible-facebooks-support-modi-and-bjp

Scuttlebutt, a decent(ralised) secure gossip platfor (sea-slang for gossip, a watercooler on a ship)





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