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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 (Abre numa nova janela)... 

Facebookistan

Das Wall Street Journal hat Zugang zu internen Studien von Facebook und veröffentlicht gerade eine investigative Artikel-Serie (Abre numa nova janela), deren Enthüllungen 1–2 Tage später auch in Deutschland in den Medien auftauchen. Außerdem gibt es dazu 🎧 Podcast-Episoden (Abre numa nova janela).

• Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls (Abre numa nova janela), 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. (Abre numa nova janela) Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.

• Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. (Abre numa nova janela) It Got Angrier Instead.

• Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. (Abre numa nova janela) The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.

Und sonst so?

• Facebook sent flawed data to misinformation researchers. (Abre numa nova janela) Vor drei Jahren wurden Daten weitergegeben, jetzt fällt auf: Da fehlt die Hälfte. Etliche Studien sind damit ... falsch.

• WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages. (Abre numa nova janela) WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds.

Social

• TikTok, make it stop (Abre numa nova janela): Gefälschten Nutzerkonten, ungenaue Kennzeichnung und nicht genug Engagement: Mozilla kritisiert vor der Bundestagswahl TikTok.

• AfD, AfD, AfD (Abre numa nova janela): »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 (Abre numa nova janela): Discord raised $500 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group. Startup turned down $12 billion offer from Microsoft.

Journalismus

• True Genius (Abre numa nova janela): How to go from »the future of journalism« to a fire sale in a few short years.

• Wie sich Macht und Geld (Abre numa nova janela) in die österreichische Medienlandschaft eingeschlichen haben – und was das mit Profil zu tun hat, erklärt Anita Zielina.

• The Devil Wears Allbirds (Abre numa nova janela): Silicon Valley companies are sucking up all the fashion editors.

Silicon Valley

• Paradise lost (Abre numa nova janela): 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 (Abre numa nova janela). If you hate them, it’s not your fault.

• Turning Homes Into LLCs and Pissing Off the Neighbors (Abre numa nova janela): 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. (Abre numa nova janela) Western platforms are still way behind in giving creators (and fans) the tools to succeed.

• What's New in Unicode 14.0 (Abre numa nova janela): 37 brand new emoji code points.

• Imagine a World Without Apps. (Abre numa nova janela) Video games are inching away from apps. Maybe every other industry can, too.

Crypto

• Insiders and experts are driving a massive spike in crypto (Abre numa nova janela): 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 (Abre numa nova janela): Ein Marktplatz, dessen Betreiber... ach, es ist alles dasselbe alte Spiel.

Longreads

• The inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history (Abre numa nova janela): 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? (Abre numa nova janela) (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 (Abre numa nova janela) is a six-month long program that explores images of the technological hidden in our apparently »open« society.

• Marginalia (Abre numa nova janela): It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn't even know you were looking for.

• Bespoke (Abre numa nova janela) is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.

• How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy (Abre numa nova janela)

Das war Ausgabe #75 von THEFUTURE (Abre numa nova janela), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Abre numa nova janela).