Notícias
Is India the frontline in big tech’s assault on democracy?
THE GUARDIAN – 13/05/2019
John Harris
What Facebook Could Have Been
THE ATLANTIC- 07/05/2019
IAN BOGOST
Chinese Retaliation, Tankers Attacked, Drug Prices: CEO Daily for May 13, 2019
FORTUNE – 13/05/2019
ALAN MURRAY and DAVID MEYER
Good morning.
Here’s the most stunning statistic from our new Fortune 500 CEO Poll: 50% of the CEOs surveyed believe Facebook “has grown so large and influential that it needs additional regulation.”
How a Newspaper War in New Orleans Ended: With a Baked Alaska and Layoffs
THE NEW YORK TIMES – 12/05/2019
NEW ORLEANS — The announcement came via the baked alaska.
On May 2, senior staff members at The Advocate newspaper gathered in a room at Antoine’s, one of the white-linen dining palaces in the French Quarter of New Orleans, for a lunch purportedly in honor of the paper’s first-ever Pulitzer Prize. The win was the crowning moment for The Advocate since it stormed into New Orleans journalism about six years ago. Drawn in icing on one side of the dessert was The Advocate’s logo.
How I Tried to Defy the Facebook Algorithm
THE ATLANTIC – JUNHO/05/2019
JOE PINSKER
Facebook to Raise Pay for Thousands of Contract Workers, Including Content Moderators
BLOOMBERG – 13/05/2019
Publics in Emerging Economies Worry Social Media Sow Division, Even as They Offer New Chances for Political Engagement
PEW RESEARCH CENTER – 13/05/2019
AARON SMITH, LAURA SILVER, COURTNEY JOHNSON, KYLE TAYLOR AND JINGJING JIANG
Facebook is a capitalism problem, not a Mark Zuckerberg problem
VOX – 10/05/2019
Ezra Klein
Facebook defends itself against op-ed calling for its breakup
THE VERGE – 11/05/2019
On Thursday, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes wrote an op-ed in The New York Timescalling for the company to be broken up, saying that CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks,” and that he should be held accountable for his company’s mistakes. Now, Facebook has responded an op-ed of its own, saying that its size isn’t the real problem, and that its success as a platform shouldn’t be punished.
Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major outlets
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 10/05/2019
IN THE LAST WEEK OF APRIL, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.lycame from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps, and other outside sources— to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook referral traffic is on the wane, this means that Google’s search algorithm is now perhaps the most powerful mediator of online attention to news.