Year: 2019
Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA (via WIRED)
Facebook hired Yael Eisenstat, a CIA veteran, to help it address election meddling. Now she’s deeply worried about the company’s sway over our lives. Source: WIRED
The Technology of Kindness (via Scientific American)
How social media can rebuild our empathy—and why it must Source: Scientific American
Rebelling against attention economy, Humane Tech movement expands (via www.aljazeera.com)
A growing coalition of social groups is pushing back against tech companies that feed digital addiction and overload. Source: www.aljazeera.com
This Is How You’re Being Manipulated (via Gizmodo)
At a preliminary Senate hearing today on the subject of potentially putting legislative limits on the persuasiveness of technology—a diplomatic way of saying the addiction model the internet uses to keep people engaged and clicking—Tristan Harris, the executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, told lawmakers that while rules…