Roger McNamee on FB, "In a trust business, once people lose trust, you’re screwed.”

"The only thing the incident shows is how expert Facebook has become at blurring the lines between simple mistakes and deliberate deception, thereby abrogating its responsibility as the key distributor of news on the planet."

Apple Maps is getting its own version of Google Maps’ Street View theverge.com/2019/6/3/18650…

👍👍"we’ve created democracies out of chaos before. We can do it again."

The minority was dragging this out interminably and would’ve accused Rep. Nadler of voting to impeach under cover of darkness had Nadler not adjourned till morning.

Will you take a break from your screens over the holidays? Here's fascinating psychology about what our screens and devices are doing to us. j.mp/2PUjjvQ

LIVE: Kara Swisher on her The New York Times column, Be Paranoid About Privacy. j.mp/2Q1WczL

Here's a link to Tristan's talk at #DLD2020: j.mp/37gHXwS

"[...] there is a massive appetite for serious alternative to Facebook." To learn more: planetary.social

"[...] repeated crises have taught us that these platforms are not bulletin boards but hyper-velocity global bloodstreams into which anyone may introduce a dangerous virus without a vaccine." Shoshana Zuboff j.mp/2GnjtWT

1. A woman who was a senior producer at Fox & Friends when the show interviewed Jerome Corsi to talk about why Obama's birth certificate was fake was just hired by Facebook to help decide what videos to feature in its new News tab popular.info/p/facebook-get…

Thanks for the heads up Karen Wickre ☕️💻👀! Here's a link to the interview j.mp/2VkOymP

The internet is helping us get through this crisis. How much so? "The greatest spike in traffic Akamai Technologies has ever experienced." bit.ly/3e8nT3F

Americans who want to “open this country” immediately vs. wait to see how #coronavirus progresses: Cɪᴛʏ Rᴇsɪᴅᴇɴᴛs • Now: 15% • Wait: 75% Sᴜʙᴜʀʙᴀɴ • Now: 18% • Wait: 73% Rᴜʀᴀʟ • Now: 23% • Wait: 66% Get out of your Twitter bubble. 👉🏻 news.gallup.com/poll/308264/am…

A+ pushback from @Pamelabrowncnn on evasive answers re FB allowing politicians to lie about voting. Relying on the voter information center, as opposed to actually addressing rampant mis/disinformation about voting, is not enough. Our report explains why: unc.live/3g10TDG

Just out from Fresh Air: Brian Stelter on the Foxification of America: j.mp/2QokKSR

"Until we think of technology not as a tool but as a set of relations, we will never truly grasp the problems with which The Social Dilemma is concerned."

Important item from zeynep tufekci:

The worst possible outcome from the insurrection and attempted sedition to install Trump would be for Trump to get off free, his co-conspirators to go unprosecuted, and only a few dozen direct participants arrested. .

“... there is no dispute about (Kara) Swisher’s impact: When it comes to tech punditry, she’s at the top of the heap.” — recent interview with Kara Swisher by @stevenlevy bit.ly/3uFu3p6