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Archives for December 2018
Longreads, analysis and explanations on what mattered in tech this year.
Could having fewer friends fix Facebook?
CEO Alan Schaaf explains on the latest episode of Recode Decode.
Mark Zuckerberg’s idealistic vision for Facebook has come back to haunt the company.
The accounts were sharing “anti-Rohingya messages” — the same kind of messages that have played into a broader genocide in Myanmar.
Fewer people saw Russian content on Instagram than on Facebook, but they interacted with it a lot more.
“It’s taking longer than we initially had thought.”
The issue may have affected as many as 6.8 million users.
The world’s biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.
Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.
Here’s a visual look back at the year.
Maria Ressa, the journalist who co-founded Rappler in the Philippines, warns that her country is a “cautionary tale” for the United States.
Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.
Vishal Shah has been promoted to lead all of Instagram’s product efforts.
They talk about social media’s impact on democracy, how the media has changed under President Trump and who’s running in 2020.