Here's How The Same #BoycottABC Hashtag Was Used By The Right And Left
A portrait of the fast-moving Twitter outrage machine.
Facebook Can’t Master The Corporate Apology
What Facebook's recent videos have in common is that they fail to address a vital component of the corporate apology: the company culture.
Facebook Expands Its Efforts Against Revenge Porn
First piloted in Australia, the program will now roll out in Canada, the UK, and the US.
Shady Marketplaces Selling Fake Facebook Profiles Operate In Plain Sight
Thirty minutes and a little bitcoin can buy you an army of believable Facebook users.
Make Google Do It... And Then What?
Google has always asked users to sacrifice a piece of themselves for the future. Its latest I/O Keynote took the idea a step further.
Uber Just Unveiled Its Flying "Air Taxi" Prototype. But Plenty Of Hurdles Remain.
The ride-hail giant wants to make flying taxis a reality. But its ambitious plans are only in the earliest stages.
YouTube Hosted Graphic Images Of Bestiality For Months
Video thumbnails of women engaging in sexual acts with dogs and horses were easily searchable on YouTube as of Monday morning. Some racked up millions of views.
Pornhub Banned Deepfake Celebrity Sex Videos, But The Site Is Still Full Of Them
More than 70 deepfake videos — depicting graphic fake sex scenes with Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson, and other celebrities — were easily searchable from the site's homepage using the search term "deepfake."
Here’s What The Facebook Media Backlash Really Looks LIke
Sentiment analysis of over 87,000 articles provided to BuzzFeed News details the evolution of the social network as seen through the publications that cover it.
Facebook Crossed The Creepy Line And Can’t Go Back
Facebook says its mission is to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” That’s a fun thing to say on an investor page, but it leaves a lingering question: Okay, but then what?
The Shooting At YouTube Showed How Bad Twitter’s Misinformation Problem Is
Twitter is the beating heart of breaking news. But its usefulness is offset considerably by a growing chorus of trolls, hoaxers, and irresponsible commentators. And it's only getting worse.
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.
It’s a moment that forces us, collectively, to step back and think about what we sacrificed for a more convenient and connected world.
Cambridge Analytica Has Suspended Its CEO As States Demand Facebook Hand Over Information
The attorneys general in both states are asking Facebook for information concerning its policies and procedures "as they relate to the reported misuse of data" by Cambridge Analytica, whose CEO has been suspended over the scandal.
These Men Helped Create Cambridge Analytica. Here Is Their New, Very Similar Startup.
Chris Wylie, a data scientist whose work was at the center of a massive Facebook controversy, said publicly that he helped create “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.” Two of his associates who also helped build that tool have been quietly building another company to analyze and influence human behavior.
What It's Like To Work At Theranos After The Fall, According To Glassdoor Reviews
"Good colleagues, but not a legitimate business."
YouTube Said It Will Link To Wikipedia Excerpts On Conspiracy Videos — But It Didn't Tell Wikipedia
"Information cues" — links to Wikipedia — will appear alongside videos about topics that have inspired significant debate, like the moon landing and chemtrails.
Silicon Valley Is Having An Existential Crisis Over "Time Well Spent." But So Are We.
Welcome to the personal internet reckoning.
The Mountain West Is Experiencing A Second Gold Rush. This Time They’re Mining Bitcoin.
Thanks to its plentiful land and cheap power, rural Montana, Washington, and Wyoming are now home to a new crop of cryptocurrency prospectors. Their neighbors aren’t too happy about it.
Jared Kushner Tried To Sell His Newspaper To Trump’s Political Enemies
Just weeks after helping elect Donald Trump, Kushner shopped the Observer to Media Matters founder David Brock, who was looking to build “the Breitbart of the left.”
Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything
“I’m not convinced on this bot thing,” said one of the men behind the Russian bot thing.