Homework links

We're going to break up some readings for small group work. Here are the categories (people who weren't in the class today have been randomly assigned by me - names in red):

Russian interference in the US election, using Facebook (Allie and Allie, Makenna, Elizabeth, Clayton, Kevin):

https://intelligence.house.gov/social-media-content/?fbclid=IwAR08V5UtoCB3fQist7sTonRRxAP_1YLmSUMuZhsuj83eb9HpGfs2fZE9qB4

https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-issue-based-ads-pages-restrictions/

How Facebook scrubbed ISIS content, and why scrubbing white nationalist content is harder (Joao, Vilde, Gabby, Kyra, AJ, Savannah):

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/will-silicon-valley-treat-white-nationalism-as-terrorism

https://mashable.com/2018/04/23/facebook-removes-terrorist-isis-and-al-qaeda-content/

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw4pbj/facebook-white-supremacy-white-nationalism-hate-speech-policy


How Facebook deflected scrutiny and criticism (Kyle, Jamie, Alisa, Harris, Tyler):

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/can-facebook-ever-solve-its-problem

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/facebook-george-soros-pr-firm-discredit-critics-crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

Issues with algorithms (Brea, Nick, Grant, Allison, Deja, David):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/04/racist-facial-recognition-white-coders-black-people-police

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-rolls-out-news-feed-algorithm-update-to-disincentivize-controversi/542409/

https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/the-facebook-algorithm-explained/