Willkommen bei THEFUTURE, dem Newsletter mit den interessanten Links zu Medien, Tech und Wild Wild Web.
Diese Woche mit viel Facebook. Sorry. Nächste Woche dann etwas verspulter zum Aerocene. Das wird gut. Hinter »Open Secret« unten bei den lustigen Links verbergen sich jede Menge digitale Kunstprojekte, richtig gut, da kann man sich Stunden verlieren. Allein NM WebDex Y2K20 (Opens in a new window)...
Facebookistan
Das Wall Street Journal hat Zugang zu internen Studien von Facebook und veröffentlicht gerade eine investigative Artikel-Serie (Opens in a new window), deren Enthüllungen 1–2 Tage später auch in Deutschland in den Medien auftauchen. Außerdem gibt es dazu 🎧 Podcast-Episoden (Opens in a new window).
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls (Opens in a new window), Company Documents Show. Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public.
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. (Opens in a new window) Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. (Opens in a new window) It Got Angrier Instead.
Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. (Opens in a new window) The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.
Und sonst so?
Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers. (Opens in a new window) Vor drei Jahren wurden Daten weitergegeben, jetzt fällt auf: Da fehlt die Hälfte. Etliche Studien sind damit ... falsch.
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages. (Opens in a new window) WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds.
Social
TikTok, make it stop (Opens in a new window): Gefälschten Nutzerkonten, ungenaue Kennzeichnung und nicht genug Engagement: Mozilla kritisiert vor der Bundestagswahl TikTok.
AfD, AfD, AfD (Opens in a new window): »Inhalte der AfD landen im Instagram-Newsfeed weiter oben als die von anderen Parteien. Das zeigt eine Analyse der Süddeutschen Zeitung, die im Projekt #wahlfilter mit Hilfe eines Browser-Add-ons von AlgorithmWatch über 200.000 Datenspenden ausgewertet hat.« Hier ein Twitter-Thread mit Details.
Discord Is Worth $15 Billion (Opens in a new window): Discord raised $500 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Startup turned down $12 billion offer from Microsoft.
Journalismus
True Genius (Opens in a new window): How to go from »the future of journalism« to a fire sale in a few short years.
Wie sich Macht und Geld (Opens in a new window) in die österreichische Medienlandschaft eingeschlichen haben – und was das mit Profil zu tun hat, erklärt Anita Zielina.
The Devil Wears Allbirds (Opens in a new window): Silicon Valley companies are sucking up all the fashion editors.
Silicon Valley
Paradise lost (Opens in a new window): The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com. The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Ebooks Are an Abomination (Opens in a new window). If you hate them, it’s not your fault.
Turning Homes Into LLCs and Pissing Off the Neighbors (Opens in a new window): Californians say the billion-dollar company is hawking illegal timeshares. »If this business model succeeds,« one Sonoma resident said, »our town starts to become more and more like an adult Disneyland.«
What Spotify and Apple can learn from Chinese podcasting apps. (Opens in a new window) Western platforms are still way behind in giving creators (and fans) the tools to succeed.
What's New in Unicode 14.0 (Opens in a new window): 37 brand new emoji code points.
Imagine a World Without Apps. (Opens in a new window) Video games are inching away from apps. Maybe every other industry can, too.
Crypto
Insiders and experts are driving a massive spike in crypto (Opens in a new window): DeFi, or decentralized finance, was meant to democratize crypto, but it is big speculators who are cashing in.
OpenSea confirms executive used insider knowledge when buying NFTs (Opens in a new window): Ein Marktplatz, dessen Betreiber... ach, es ist alles dasselbe alte Spiel.
Longreads
The inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history (Opens in a new window): Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police.
What's going on with global supply chains? (Opens in a new window) (aka "why are we running out of everthing," "why is shipping so slow," "why are things more expensive"). A link roundup thread.
Internet Explorer
Open Secret (Opens in a new window) is a six-month long program that explores images of the technological hidden in our apparently »open« society.
Marginalia (Opens in a new window): It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn't even know you were looking for.
Bespoke (Opens in a new window) is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.
Das war Ausgabe #75 von THEFUTURE (Opens in a new window), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Opens in a new window).
