As The Social Network once again finds itself in the hot seat over user privacy, El Kaiser and J.D. ponder the big picture and Facebook’s effect on civic affairs. After the weekly roundup of tech news, this week’s episode also features some very special guests — and not all of them are chatbots. Fasten your seatbelt and climb aboard Episode 267!
Links to Stories in This Week’s News Segment
- How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions (The New York Times)
- Here’s how Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica to get data for 50 million users (Recode)
- Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook (Facebook)
- Pursuing Forensic Audits to Investigate Cambridge Analytica Claims (Facebook)
- Whistleblower: Facebook Suspended Me for Exposing Cambridge Analytica (The Daily Beast)
- Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm that might be a key Trump-Russia link, explained (Vox)
- U.S. and British lawmakers demand answers from Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg (The Washington Post)
- Facebook may have violated FTC privacy deal, say former federal officials, triggering risk of massive fines (The Washington Post)
- Massachusetts AG to investigate Facebook, Cambridge Analytica (CNN)
- Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenarios (TechCrunch)
- YouTube suggested conspiracy videos to children using its Kids app (Business Insider)
- YouTube didn’t tell Wikipedia about its plans for Wikipedia (The Verge)
- YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight Conspiracy Theories (Wired)
- The @Wikimedia Foundation statement about the recent @YouTube announcement (via Twitter)
- Apple to Host March 27 Event in Chicago: ‘Creative New Ideas for Teachers and Students‘ (Mac Rumors)
- NBC News plans online streaming service to attract younger viewers (Reuters)
- Twitter working on Snap Discover competitor with location-based snaps (CNBC)
- Snapchat’s Stock Sinks After Rihanna Denounces Domestic Violence Ad (NPR)
- The real world as your playground: Build real-world games with Google Maps APIs (Google Geo Developers Blog)
- Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go (The Verge)
- Financial Services: New restricted financial products policy / June 2018 (Google)
- Google banning cryptocurrency-related advertising (CBNC)
- Stephen Hawking: Tributes pour in for ‘inspirational’ physicist (BBC News)
- Stephen Hawking’s Star Trek Cameo Remains Historic—and Delightful (Vanity Fair)
- Stephen Hawking leaves behind ‘breathtaking’ final multiverse theory (The Daily Telegraph)
Chatbots
- What can your Assistant do? (Google)
- Google Assistant chatbots (Google)
- Alexa bots (Amazon)
- Cyber Argument chatbot script app for fights between Alexa and Google Assistant (Google)
- See Bots Chat (YouTube)
