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Favoriting March 19, 2018: Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review's chief digital writer, on the Facebook Armageddon

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This evening, Mathew Ingram, the chief digital writer for Columbia Journalism Review (cjr.org), on the "Facebook Armageddon."

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The Facebook Armageddon: The social network’s increasing threat to journalism. As Facebook increases its control, “they’ll decide which brands they are going to elevate and which they will filter out..Facebook effectively decides which media outlets survive and which don’t.”

Why Facebook Is a Waste of Time - and Money - for Arts Nonprofits, by Steve Lambert, associate professor of new media at the State University of New York at Purchase College, and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism (c4aa.org).

Good summary of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess by Zeynep Tufekci. "Paul Grewal, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Facebook, wrote that 'the claim that this is a data breach is completely false.' He contended that Facebook users 'knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked.' ... Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance."

Facebook Failed To Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested By Trump Campaign Affiliate, a story about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook breach, published in The Intercept by Mattathias Schwartz in March 2017! But, you know, Facebook was shocked to find out about the issue last weekend.

James Gleick on the Cambridge Analytica news: "This is the essence of the Facebook debacle. They insist it’s not a ‘breach.’ It’s worse. It’s their business model."

Gizmodo's Raju Narisetti: That key Facebook execs and its apologists are spending more time arguing with everyone on Twitter about the definition of "breach" vs the calamitous nature of what actually happened with data of tens of millions of its users says a lot about that company's tone-deaf leadership.

Facebook's Andrew Bosworth: "This is the opposite of [Facebook's] business model... We are able to show better ads when we know more about people relative to other businesses, so giving data to them is the opposite of a good strategy."

Zeynep Tufekci: "If your business is building a massive surveillance machinery, the data will eventually be used & misused. Hacked, breached, leaked, pilfered, conned, 'targeted', 'engaged', 'profiled', sold.. There is no informed consent because it's not possible to reasonably inform or consent."

Why Facebook Is a Waste of Time - and Money - for Arts Nonprofits, by Steve Lambert, associate professor of new media at the State University of New York at Purchase College, and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism (c4aa.org).

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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:02pm
Linda Lee:

Good evening Mark! Happy post-Marathon! amazing work last night! :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Rand al'Thor:

Evening, all.
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pinholga:

Too bad there hasn't been much tech news this week...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Phil with the phone:

@pinholga Hope you're hungry, you're about to eat those words
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Michael 98145:

hearts and radios abound
  6:04pm
melinda:

Hi all
Avatar 6:04pm
Linda Lee:

hola melinda! :-)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

One of today's news headlines: Self-driving Uber car kills pedestrian. Ugh!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
chris:

hi, Mark and folks... another hopefully helpful article to share about hoe to cut ties with the social nets - www.wired.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yes - you can always pledge and all the swag is still there!
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Linda Lee:

thanks chris.
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Bas NL:

Hi Mark!
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geezerette:

Howdy, Mark and tonics.


Ken,seriously?!!! Already?
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Linda Lee:

@geezerette ~ yes, news today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
common:

just read an article about the guy who feels bad about coming up with this.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
chris:

here's the times article on the killer car - www.nytimes.com...
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herb.nyc:

Hi all, radio said FB stock went down. I emailed a guy I know who works there: "ahem, my 1 share of FB is now worthless. Plz tell Mark Z I say thanks.".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Michael 98145:

Yes, in AZ : www.washingtonpost.com...
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Webhamster Henry:

There's stuff you can do with open data sets that can turn into something like a data breach. FB's social graph is just one of these massive navigable datasets.
That's what "Big Data" is all about!
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geezerette:

Linda, yikes!!!
Chris!!! :[
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Webhamster Henry:

That's one reason they like you to use your real name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
dale:

do you think there's any tech espionage in putin's landslide or is it just good old-fashioned threats and collusion?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
Bas NL:

This Wednesday we have a referendum in The Netherlands about our secret service getting free reign on internet tapping.. en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
chris:

dale, russia is massively involved in tech espionage - www.bloomberg.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Michael 98145:

we have enough trouble dodging Human Uber drivers ..
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
chris:

oh, you mean, putin's re-election, dale? sorry. i misread. i think that's just good ole fashioned corruption and strong-arm tactics.
  6:18pm
Adam West Coaster:

So thankful for your continued reporting on investigation of Facebook’s methods of operation, and concern about the ethics of such methods.
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northguineahills:

I was going to say, I didn't know Bas NL worked for FB!
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Linda Lee:

@Adam West Coaster ~ seconded!
  6:19pm
Uncle Michael:

in the car on my way home from the airport and tuned in, Mark. Loving the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Michael 98145:

i really cannot recall any other program confronting such tech issues
  6:21pm
mrmikestandsir:

go Mark, go!
Let 'em have it!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Bas NL:

@ngh Ha,ha.. stranger things might be true! ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
Tommy in Neversink:

I just assume my date is being used . I haven't really thought about the dangers of that ..guess I should
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
Tommy in Neversink:

data
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geezerette:

For now there are still landlines, a post office and email for communicating soccer dates etc.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

How much of that FB data was from Russian troll-bot accounts?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Fuzzy:

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica...it all smells like CIA to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Fuzzy:

Or FSB.
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Webhamster Henry:

FB is on its way toward MySpacedom.
"Facebook Losing Teen Audience. Now It's Just Old People Socializing"

www.techtimes.com...
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herb.nyc:

Very sharp commentary on FB, mark. Ditto to what the interviewee says. (As for Columbia Journalism Review, I used to read its humorous end page on news headlines. I'll never forget "perch decline to be studied".)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Rand al'Thor:

Article from three years ago. Wonder what that's like now.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

it boils down to trust, in deed. That means we solve it with : blockchain! #theanswertoeverything
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Michael 98145:

@Fuzzy, :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
Michael 98145:

go talk to the algorithm
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Fuzzy:

BREAKING: Facebook WAS inside Cambridge Analytica's office but have now "stood down" following dramatic intervention by UK Information Commissioner's Office..

The ICO is trying to get a warrant tonight to go in tonight. BUT no judge available...

Team being assembled for tomorrow morning...

"Won't they be deleting everything right now?"
"Hopefully not."
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

Blame, so important in corporate America, can now be assigned to "the algorithm".This is in fact what was going on during the "go-go 80s", when the great discovery was that a computer report has no signature.
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geezerette:

Dis topia, dat topia...
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Ken From Hyde Park:

I saw a news article headline recently about how false news stories are 70% more likely to be re-Tweetered then a true story.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Fuzzy:

"We didn't get a warrant, we'll be back first thing tomorrow" sounds like a great way to catch people hastily shoveling servers into a bonfire late at night.
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geezerette:

Emma Gonzales for president.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

Facebook and Google are now the "portals" that everyone wanted in the Dot-Com era.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Webhamster Henry:

Dump FB for the WFMU chat boards!
  6:34pm
Adam West Coaster:

I have a friend who works at Facebook headquarters. We currently have a fairly disagreeable relationship ha ha.
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geezerette:

Pinterest has coralled huge quantities of visual "content".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Michael 98145:

FB headquarters are sprouting up like weeds
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Does FCC chairman Ajit Pai have any ideas for a solution to this?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Michael 98145:

hehehehe
  6:39pm
Adam West Coaster:

@Michael98145: let’s just call it the original one. Ha ha.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

Question for Matt Ingram: what does he thing of the Knight Foundation's efforts for creating a new platform for sustainable, credible journalism?
knightfoundation.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Jаson:

Tonight's Channel 4 undercover report at Cambridge A: www.youtube.com... (apologies in advance if it's geo-blocked in the US)
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geezerette:

The Well, Thing.com...
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Fredericks:

I tried to look up "Network Effect" and ran into this:

NETWORK EFFECT
HUMAN LIFE ON THE INTERNET

Network Effect is designed for a high-performance browser.

Please revisit using Google Chrome.
Get Google Chrome
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geezerette:

Selling data was Zuckerberg's business plan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Michael 98145:

thanks, @Jason
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Michael 98145:

"Google parent Alphabet was down 3 percent" : www.washingtonpost.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

You don't even have to use your real name.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
Michael 98145:

:), gz'ette
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geezerette:

This is the craziest time I've ever lived in.

Stream going down for minutes at a time, anyone else experiencing that?
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Linda Lee:

healthy societies don't reward sociopaths. but here we are.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
Michael 98145:

@gz'ette, nope ...
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Buffalo's Tom:

I drastically reduced my use Facebook and I feel so much better as a result. You're interacting with all these people on it, yet it always ended up feeling alienating to me.
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Linda Lee:

of course it is ~ because it's not actual interaction.
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chris:

Cool!
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geezerette:

Hi Michael! :)
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Linda Lee:

it's simulation.
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Buffalo's Tom:

too true @Linda Lee
  6:51pm
herb.nyc:

I eagerly await purchasing Hurstocurrency.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
melinda:

Looking forward to the blockchain/cryptocurrency episode. I want to learn more but I'm wary of its evangelists.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
northguineahills:

You'd think I'd learn my lesson, did some processes at work, went the loo, came back, and the MS auto update happened and all of my work since noon is lost. (reminds me I need fudge w/ those setting). U;n a moron.
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geezerette:

What Linda Lee said.
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Bobby Tables:

The EU are way ahead of US in terms of data privacy laws. GDPR will become enforceable this May. Will it be able to put a leash on Facebook?
  6:53pm
jeremyb:

tried to call ... question is there a benign business model for a social network besides one that is pay to use?
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dale:

never been on instagram. i have a dumb phone so it's not an option and that's how i like it.
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Linda Lee:

keep trying jeremyb.
  6:54pm
Adam West Coaster:

Thank you, Mark, for another fantastic show!
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Michael 98145:

i fear this latest post-Reagan wave of 'deregulation" ...
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Phil with the phone:

@jeremy I couldn't hear you, try calling back?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Bas NL:

The WFMU main page is traced by Facebook, Google Analytics and Twitter.
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Fox:

I'm disabled through chronic illness, and there's a whole lot of people in the illness communities who only interact with people outside their homes through FB groups. That interaction is really difficult to let go, regardless of the privacy concerns. People are painfully lonely and isolated, and even the sterile and corporate service of FB is worth it, to them.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Bas NL There's a plugin mentioned here a few weeks ago that will block traffic to the analytics trackers.
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geezerette:

Michael,yep,it's terrifying.
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Linda Lee:

very true Fox. but if the need is this basic, then anything that offers the same benefit should be just as valuable. alernatives simply need development.
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Linda Lee:

we don't need FB for this; FB is only what we have at the moment.
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northguineahills:

err., Yo soy morono, que chinga!

My brothers think it's ridiculous I don't use the FB app, (i use the desktoo, once a week), but lack critical thinking skills).
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Bas NL:

@Webhamster Henry: Running that ever since ;)
  6:57pm
Dean:

Good background on scripts that track navigation at F2T: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/01/12/website-operators-are-in-the-dark-about-privacy-violations-by-third-party-scripts/
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
melinda:

I've had some great interactions and found useful information and support in private facebook groups, but only because I shared even more info there than I would have in public groups or on my wall. So the positive connection comes with the loss of privacy, don't know yet if it's a good trade-off.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Rand al'Thor:

I've never liked the overload of information on Facebook. I've always preferred the simplified approach of Twitter.
Avatar 6:58pm
J J F:

Information Doesn't Want to Be Free
by Cory Doctorow Good Start
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Jаson:

I don't use it, but quitter.no is an open-source twitter clone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Buffalo's Tom:

Can't wait for next week, Mark!
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chris:

Dean, 3rd party scripts have also been linked to drive-by crypto mining. yikes!
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Fox:

Linda: Yes, I agree.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Rand al'Thor:

I've tried Twitter wannabes, most recently Mastadon.
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Linda Lee:

only wish certain people i do business with would learn to contact me outside FB!
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geezerette:

Great show Mark!
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melinda:

@Fox I posted before reading your comment but that's what I'm talking about. I don't regret participating in the groups but I do wonder how all my info is being used.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark!
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chris:

thanks, Mark! see ya, folks!
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Webhamster Henry:

Hear ya next week!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Phil with the phone:

Obviously we need to go back to myspace.

See ya'll next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Mark and Mathew!
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Linda Lee:

see you soon Mark! Thank you!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I forget, what was the original AOL business model?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Michael 98145:

free to be facebook-free
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

Friendster! I'm actually getting active in ECHO again these days.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
melinda:

What's ECHO?
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Linda Lee:

what's this internet song? it's good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Michael 98145:

what LL asked
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Linda Lee:

they won't tell us :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Michael 98145:

okay, we'll just stay here and turn blue ! :)
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Linda Lee:

ah! Pink Tiles! "The Internet"!
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Linda Lee:

no turning blue yet .. :-D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Michael 98145:

thx!
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Michael 98145:

yay ! thepinktiles.bandcamp.com...
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Linda Lee:

bravo! love it.
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Michael 98145:

i have no sales resistance :)

see ya, @LL !
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Linda Lee:

see you soon!
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