BruceS — All Things Facebook

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All Things Facebook


Facebook is the new crapware

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/facebook-is-the-new-crapware/


Technological Sovereignty, Volume 2

http://hacklabbo.indivia.net/book/sobtec2/en/


Leaving Facebook as a religious experience

https://medium.com/uncalendared/what-284-days-without-facebook-feels-like-c1ae02bc7ed9


Reality Check Facebook by Aaron Greenspan (a must-read report)

https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/fb.pdf


Zuckerberg explains his good intentions, one more time

https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-defends-facebook-advertising-model-we-dont-sell-peoples-data/


Life without the tech giants, including youtube videos

https://gizmodo.com/life-without-the-tech-giants-1830258056

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNSp-kzVVhU&index=1&list=PLx1XbvvfIlc4zQgE5ohJA9EJ2NCcGc2QQ

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=FGyEirsta_0&index=2&list=PLx1XbvvfIlc4zQgE5ohJA9EJ2NCcGc2QQ

The fall of Facebook has only begun

https://medium.com/@13DResearch/the-fall-of-facebook-has-only-begun-9d73a45adc8

(it was reported that 640.000 users in NL left Facebook in 2018)


Second thoughts of corporate Silicon Valley pundit Jeff Jarvis on FB

https://medium.com/whither-news/facebook-sigh-6c630a7b79a9


Fortnite was 2018s most important social network

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18152012/fortnite-was-2018s-most-important-social-network


How Facebook tracks you on Android (even if you don’t have a Facebook account)

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9941.html


Revealed: how Italy’s populists used Facebook to win power

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/revealed-how-italy-populists-used-facebook-win-election-matteo-salvini-luigi-di-maio


After a year from hell, Facebook parties like it’s 2017

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/17/facebook-christmas-party-celebration


Is 2019 the year you should finally quit Facebook?https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/21/quit-facebook-privacy-scandal-private-messages


How can I remove Google from my life?https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2018/dec/20/how-can-i-remove-google-from-my-life


We all fell for Facebook’s utopianism, but the mask is at last being torn away

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/09/facebook-utopianism-mask-being-torn-away  

Did Facebook Cause Riots in France?http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/did-facebook-cause-the-yellow-vest-riots-in-france.html?fbclid=IwAR0jC2L2Ztz63rJrxWF-xfLooSVP3zHPDM38KCXvgztS0S3sE5zknoCoPBI


The New York Facebook Pop-Up Privacy Cafe

https://theweek.com/articles/812561/drank-hot-chocolate-facebook-popup-learned-horrifying-things-about-privacy


Did you delette your FB account in 2018?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748135


Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html

The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/its-time-for-all-of-us-to-finally-delete-facebook.html

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

The Facebook Era is Over
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-era-over-gina-bianchini/

Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-reality-buy-ads-on-facebook-or-risk-losing-the-election-1541171620

How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules


How much is social media worth? Estimating the value of Facebook by paying users to stop using it
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207101

Court Case doc of Fashion ID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW e.V.
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=209357&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=2968825


As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html


Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/walt-mossberg-quit-facebook.html

The Time Has Come to Finally Delete Facebook
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/11/its-time-for-all-of-us-to-finally-delete-facebook.html

From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been bought up by big money | Evgeny Morozov | Opinion | The Guardian


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/airbnb-city-bikes-sharing-economy-big-money

Google faces its first challenge under Europe’s strict new data protection rules
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114111/google-location-tracking-gdpr-challenge-european-deceptive

The Facebook Era is Over
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebook-era-over-gina-bianchini/

Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-reality-buy-ads-on-facebook-or-risk-losing-the-election-1541171620

How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-big-oil-dodges-facebooks-new-ad-transparency-rules
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/13/they-dont-care-facebook-fact-checking-in-disarray-as-journalists-push-to-cut-ties


Sheryl Sandberg’s Campaign

https://www.wired.com/story/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-empress-befuddling-dinner/
The War on Sex

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/the-internet-war-on-sex-is-here/

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/12/06/facebook-ban-sexual-preferences/

https://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-alternatives-that-allow-nsfw-2018-12?international=true&r=US&IR=T#dreamwidth-3


Facebook’s seized files published by UK MPshttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46456695


Yellow Jackets and What Happens When Facebook Gets Involved With Local News

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/france-paris-yellow-jackets-facebook


From: “Frederick Noronha fredericknoronha@gmail.com [bytesforall_readers]" 


Part 1: Is Facebook in India truly independent of political influence?
Not really – it has backed Modi and the BJP (in India)
https://www.newsclick.in/part-1-facebook-india-truly-independent-political-influence

Part 2: Did Facebook in India help Modi and the BJP, or was it vice
versa?
https://www.newsclick.in/part-2-did-facebook-india-help-bjp-and-modi-or-was-it-vice-versa

Part 3: Who were the key players for Facebook’s support to Modi and the
BJP?
https://www.newsclick.in/part-3-who-were-key-players-responsible-facebooks-support-modi-and-bjp


Scuttlebutt, a decent(ralised) secure gossip platfor (sea-slang for gossip, a watercooler on a ship)https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/