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‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli

GeekWire

Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli is the author of the new book, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” ” The role of Amazon’s culture: “I’ve covered companies for nearly 18 years at the Wall Street Journal.

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Pew Report: Speaking Up or Staying Silent on Social Media

CTOvision

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. In the 1970s, an article in the Journal of Communication by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” to describe the observed phenomenon. By Shannon Perry.

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It's Time to Treat Social Media Like the Climate Crisis, Researchers Argue

Gizmodo

In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a diverse group makes the case that the social media problem rises to the level of urgency that… Read more. Mark Zuckerberg needs to hand over the keys, a team of researchers argues.

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‘Unbiased’ Social Media Platform Parler Is Unsurprisingly Found to Be Backed by Conservative Megadonor

Gizmodo

Parler, the social media network that describes itself as the “world’s premier free speech platform,” which is apparently another way to say a space for misinformation and conspiracy theories like QAnon, is unsurprisingly backed by conservative megadonor Rebekah Mercer, the Wall Street Journal has found. Read more.

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Social app Parler apparently receives funding from the conservative Mercer family

The Verge

Social media app Parler receives financial backing from conservative hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, The Wall Street Journal reported. A longstanding gripe among conservatives on social media is that Twitter and Facebook’s algorithms discriminate against them, “shadowbanning” their content.

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What ‘The Social Dilemma’ misunderstands about social networks

The Verge

Directed by Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma explores the effect of smartphones and social networks on human behavior. I started writing this newsletter in 2017 after coming to the belated realization that social networks really did have an outsized impact on modern life, and deserved to be taken as seriously.

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Marketers, Stop Being Part Of The Facebook, Inc. Problem — Start Being The Solution

Forrester IT

is in the hot seat again due to a recent The Wall Street Journal “Facebook Files” exposé and 60 Minutes whistleblower interview. As we’ve said again and again, a singular event won’t be enough to bring down the social media behemoth. Facebook, Inc.

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