Propaganda, Hate Speech, Violence: The Working Lives Of Facebook’s Content Moderators
March 2, 2019 SCOTT SIMON EMMA BOWMAN
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699663284/the-working-lives-of-facebooks-content-moderators
In a recent article for The Verge titled “The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America,” a dozen current and former employees of one of the company’s contractors, Cognizant, talked to Newton about the mental health costs of spending hour after hour monitoring graphic content.
Perhaps the most surprising find from his investigation, the reporter said, was how the majority of the employees he talked to started to believe some of the conspiracy theories they reviewed.
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Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%
Josh Constine joshconstine”>@joshconstine Feb 26. 2019
Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%
Facebook has consistently shown that it puts what it thinks users want and its own interests above those of partners. It cut off game developers from viral channels, inadequately warned Page owners their reach would drop over time, decimated referral traffic to news publishers and, most recently, banished video makers from the feed. If Facebook wants to win creators’ trust and the engagement of their biggest fans, it may need a more competitive offering with larger limits on its power.
Facebook labelled ‘digital gangsters’ by report on fake news
Company broke privacy and competition law and should be regulated urgently, say MPs
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/facebook-fake-news-investigation-report-regulation-privacy-law-dcms
https://abcn.ws/2NjmNoZ
See also: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/02/20/digital-destruction-of-democracy/
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This Is Your Brain Off Facebook
Planning on quitting the social platform? A major new study offers a glimpse of what unplugging might do for your life. (Spoiler: It’s not so bad.)
Benedict Carey, Jan 30, 2019
This Is Your Brain Off Facebook by BENEDICT CAREY
So what happens if you actually do quit? A new study, the most comprehensive to date, offers a preview.
Well before news broke that Facebook had shared users’ data without consent, scientists and habitual users debated how the platform had changed the experience of daily life.
the use of Facebook and other social media is linked to mental distress, especially in adolescents.
Others have likened habitual Facebook use to a mental disorder, comparing it to drug addiction and even publishing magnetic-resonance images of what Facebook addiction “looks like in the brain.”
When Facebook has published its own analyses to test such claims, the company has been roundly criticized.
For abstainers, breaking up with Facebook freed up about an hour a day, on average, and more than twice that for the heaviest users.
research led by Ethan Kross, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, has found that high levels of passive browsing on social media predict lowered moods, compared to more active engagement.
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Ad-free Facebook? Would you pay for it?
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How to Brand Your Mobile Facebook Live Streams
By Owen Video March 12, 2018 https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-brand-mobile-facebook-live-streams
A branded banner image has several benefits.
- First, it will grab attention in the news feed.
- Also, you can design the image to highlight your offer while the actual video demonstrates the value of your products.
- Even better, producing a Facebook live stream with a branded image doesn’t take a ton of your time and it can position your company as tech-savvy and cool.
branding your live videos.
#1: Create the Branded Image Overlay
#2: Set Up the Switcher Go App for Live Video
The Switcher Go iOS app is a free tool that’s packed with features and allows you to overlay an image in the lower third of your live video. You can connect the app to Facebook Live and YouTube Live. (Although you can use the Switcher Studio video tools, you only need Switcher Go to add an image to a live video.)
My note: this article is geared toward Apple mobile tools. If you are Android user and/or use both tools, and/or are running your Live feed from laptop/desktop, OBS (Open Broadcast Sofware) – https://obsproject.com/ might be good option.
#4: Stream Your Live Video With a Branded Image
#5: Boost the Live Video Post to Your Target Audience on Facebook
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Facebook Analytics
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Sheryl Sandberg visits Germany to assure critics over fake news
Rhiannon Williams 12:40Tuesday January 17th 2017
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/technology/sheryl-sandberg-visits-germany-assure-critics-fake-news/
Sheryl Sandberg has visited German government officials in Germany in an effort to smooth relations after the country threatened to fine the social network for publishing fake news. Mrs Sandberg met with officials in Berlin at the weekend, when Facebook announced a partnership with German third-party fact-checking organization Correctiv in an effort to tackle the proliferation of fake news shared on its platform.
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