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The Facebook Files

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.

Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity | TechCrunch

Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it's

Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses | TechCrunch

After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally

Facebook Executive In 2016: “Maybe Someone Dies In A Terrorist Attack Coordinated On Our Tools”

Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.

Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been

Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?

Criticism of Facebook

Facebook (and parent company Meta Platforms) has been the subject of criticism and legal action since it was founded in 2004.[1] Criticisms include the outsize influence Facebook has on the lives and health of its users and employees, as well as Facebook's influence on the way media, specifically news, is reported and distributed. Notable issues include Internet privacy, such as use of a widespread "like" button on third-party websites tracking users,[2][3] possible indefinite records of user information,[4] automatic facial recognition software,[5][6] and its role in the workplace, including employer-employee account disclosure.[7] The use of Facebook can have negative psychological and physiological effects[8] that include feelings of sexual jealousy,[9][10] stress,[11][12] lack of attention,[13] and social media addiction that in some cases is comparable to drug addiction.[14][15]

Facebook's Big Move Toward the AfterWeb

Blow up your browser! The Next Big Thing is the AfterWeb. Facebook made a monumental announcement Monday that seemed as though it was designed to...

First post: A history of online public messaging

From BBS to Facebook, here’s how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Friends With Benefits

FWB is a members club for people building culture on the internet.

Friends With Benefits

FWB is a members club for people building culture on the internet.

Friends With Benefits

FWB is a members club for people building culture on the internet.

It’s time for third-party data brokers to emerge from the shadows

Facebook announced last week it would discontinue the partner programs that allow advertisers to use third-party data from companies such as Acxiom, Experian and Quantium to target users.

Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.