Cass Sunstein (Harvard): How Much Would You Pay to Use Facebook? A Behavioral Perspective. Facebook and Google are free — they shouldn’t be. Are you really the product? Will Oremus on the history of a dangerous idea. Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you’re going to have to start doing a lot of work. Facebook is still abusing your privacy. Does Facebook need a constitution? Facebook’s gestures toward “free speech” make it sound like a liberal democracy — but where are its checks and balances? Sex, beer, and coding: Inside Facebook’s wild early days in Palo Alto.
“Google was not a normal place”: Adam Fisher on Brin, Page, and Mayer on the accidental birth of the company that changed everything. For Google, everything is a popularity contest: The limits of the search giant’s philosophy. Everyone wants to be popular online, some even pay for it — inside social media’s black market. Twitter can’t win its war on trolls — why not?
Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google’s AI battle over your social lives: From stamping out trolls to removing fake bot accounts, here’s how social networks are waging war using AI weapons. A bill in the California legislature would regulate bots by making them disclose their automated nature — but how?
