Report: Meta Extends Ban on the Term ‘Zionist’
Rivkah Brown
The big tech company has added additional contexts in which it will consider the term ‘Zionist’ to be hate speech. Rivkah Brown reports.
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Novara Live: Zuckerberg Renames Facebook in Bid to Create ‘Metaverse’
Facebook is now Meta, and Mark Zuckerberg says our future is in the Metaverse. Is virtual reality the future of the internet, or Zuckerberg’s latest gimmick? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.
Analysis: Big Tech’s Mission to Replace the Banks Will End in Tears
James Meadway
As long as profit is allowed to drive developments in fintech, the risks of catastrophic overreach remains, writes James Meadway.
GE2019: Are Anti-Corbyn Groups Buying up Facebook Ads on Behalf of the Conservative Party?
Charlotte England
The Conservative party’s Facebook advertising strategy has been looking a little strange recently, with their spending in the past week eclipsed by the Liberal Democrats, the Labour party and anti-Brexit group Best for Britain. This is despite the Conservatives having spent far more on Facebook ads in past elections than any other party – £2.1m […]
GE2019: Asymmetric Advertising Is the New Fake News, and the Tories May Be Using It to Hijack Your Social Media
Stuart Mills
Social media could win this election and the Tories know they are at a disadvantage, with users skewing young and leftwing. Researcher Stuart Mills thinks the Conservatives may have come up with a hack: using deliberately bad or contentious content to try and bait us into sharing their posts.
Mo Money Mo Problems: Why Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Plans Matter to Us All
James Meadway
The announcement of Facebook's forthcoming cryptocurrency Libra signals the platform's response to its worsening stagnation. In his latest column, James Meadway explains why Libra is such a significant development not only for Facebook but for the financial system more broadly.
Long Read: A Design for Life: How Platforms Are Weaving Their Way Into the Fabric of Capitalism
James Meadway
With platform companies such as Apple and Facebook running up against the limits of their business models, they are turning to new ways to leverage your data for profit. In this week's column, James Meadway examines the measures platforms are taking and asks what it means for the future of capitalism.
Novara Live: 2018: the Season Finale of Centrism
Was 2018 Centrism’s season finale? Will Macron survive the Gilets Jaunes’ movement? And is there anything liberals won’t blame on Russia or Facebook?
Forget Surveillance Capitalism – It’s Time to Build a Digital Commons
Mathew Lawrence
To build a future of shared digital plenty we need to transform and democratise the ownership of data and technological infrastructure, argues Mat Lawrence.
Choice: Break up Facebook – or Take It Into Public Ownership? I Am Not Kidding
Paul Mason
The emerging scandal over Facebook's role in the manipulation of user data raises questions over the future of tech giants that hold massive amounts of our information. So how do we solve a problem like Facebook?
Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?
Miranda Hall
Cruise workers experience both some of the worst working conditions and unique barriers to collective organising. Can social media networks help crew members overcome these barriers and provide a starting point for building a movement?
Facebook and Freedom: How Silicon Valley’s Ideology Masks Emerging Power
Karishma Mehrotra
Since its inception many have seen the internet as a space of freedom, without authority or hierarchy. But, Internet.org, Facebook's latest endeavour, suggests this isn't the case.
7 Reasons We Shouldn’t Let Ello Become the Next Facebook
Johannes Wilm
Ditched Facebook and moved to the greener pastures of Ello in search of privacy, exclusivity and loads of little round pictures? Don't be so eager! While your grandparents might not be on Ello taking selfies (yet), the company is almost bound to renege on its 'civil liberties' ego-trip and has got some serious venture capitalists queuing around the block.