A collection of Facebook items:
@joesharkey123
Replying to @kpoulsen and @davidfrum
Media also neglecting to point out that Facebook said it "identified" $100,000. My guess is that's the tip of a very nasty iceberg.
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issie lapowsky
issie lapowsky @issielapowsky
Lots of reporting out there saying FB found 3k Russia linked ads. It's actually more than 5k. I confirmed twice.
www.wired.com/story/facebook-ties-more-than-5000-political-ads-to-bogus-russian-accounts/amp
K. Goldberg @KGoldPhysics
Replying to @kennybeeonetwo3 and @20committee
FB knows IP address of everyone who reads, posts & creates ads, and all sites THEY visit too. They know everything, but hide, dodge, deny.
Eric Garland @ericgarland
This is why Facebook was behind so much election interference. Their code tracks you ALL OVER the internet, not just your FB activity.
You guys know that, right? If you're logged into FB and you go another site that has FB integration - like "Share" buttons, FB grabs it.
So if that data was exfiltrated to, say, a political campaign or foreign power, then they'd know MASSIVE amounts about YOU. As a person.
Were you logged into FB and go to a travel website? FB knows. Shopping? Same.
Hey, guess how you log into Tinder?
Get it?
We cannot turn back the development of information technology.
Our current crisis is about whether we can maintain democracy with it.
Speaking as someone knows the history of technology forecasting, this is actually very normal, predictable even. Happens for every tech.
Every time there's a major leap ahead in tech, there's a Wild West period with insufficient legal controls - things get out of hand.
Hell, they invented the printing press and the Christian church split in two! Remember that? Pretty crazy, right?
Tech causes revolutions.
Printing press, gunpowder, chemistry, nukes: At first, nobody knows what to do, then there's an attempt to regain a global balance of power.
This is why the US intelligence community put resources to develop Google so that -
Oh, you guys remember that, right?
The ascendancy of a technology that powerful? You think the US was going to let China or Russia lead?
In-Q-Tel supported Google.
In-Q-Tel is the venture capital arm of the CIA, though I believe it was Google Earth that interested them most, which would be NGA. Anyhow.
BTW, isn't it interesting how Julian Assange throws shade at this one US tech company not to blame for 2016? Weird.
www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447
Anyhow, there are likely to be more rules and regulations for the tech sector. These are public utilities, and vital to society.
That may sound ominous, but when we made huge leaps in food processing and medications, soon we needed an FDA. The Wild West wasn't optimal.
Not just anyone should be making and selling food and drugs. Or making nuclear weapons. Or handling masses of personal data. Right?
Obama said it: Protect your democracy.
This is part of that. So, we don't need to unplug - we need democratic reforms.
And then we can explore the future. And keep in touch with old friends. And have secure elections.
It's possible. Let's do it.
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A very good thread about the history of political ads of Facebook
David Ingram @David_Ingram
I'm getting questions, so this subject is worth addressing in a thread: Why do Facebook political ads not need disclaimers? 1/
mobile.twitter.com/David_Ingram/status/906554302436478976
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix
Putin-financed trolls ran memes under a Facebook page called SecureBorders (shut down last month). Donald RT'd one of their memes last week.
[the one of the trump "eclipsing" obama]
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Facebook AI learns human reactions after watching hours of Skype
www.newscientist.com/article/2146294-facebook-ai-learns-human-reactions-after-watching-hours-of-Skype