Mark Zuckerberg lands in the Congressional hot seat this week over Facebook’s role in user privacy protection and the social network’s influence on life, culture and election interference. After a march through the current tech headlines with J.D., El Kaiser has a roundup review of earplugs for those times when you need to screen out all that infernal noise around you. Jump into Episode 269 to hear for yourself!
Links to Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show
- Mark Zuckerberg Prepares to Testify as Extent of Data Harvesting Widens (The New York Times)
- Hearing Before The United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce: Mark Zuckerberg Testimony (House.gov)
- Zuckerberg to meet with U.S. lawmakers Monday: sources (Reuters)
- Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (The New York Times)
- Why Mark Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook (Wired)
- Facebook: Cambridge Analytica warning sent to users (BBC News)
- Facebook Launches New Initiative to Help Scholars Assess Social Media’s Impact on Elections (Facebook Newsroom)
- (How) Will Facebook Self-Regulate “Issue Ads” Intended to Affect U.S. Elections? The Details Matter a Lot (Election Law Blog)
- Facebook could face record fine, say former FTC officials (The Washington Post)
- Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data (CNBC)
- First look at Instagram Nametags, its clone of Snapchat QR codes (TechCrunch)
- Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope (Bloomberg)
- YouTube may be illegally collecting kids’ data (MIT Technology Review)
- Twitter Bots: An Analysis of Automated Accounts and the Links They Share (Pew Research Center)
- Launching today: new collaborative study to diminish abuse on Twitter (Medium)
- ‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon (The New York Times)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer
El Kaiser’s Earplug Roundup