一周前，当Facebook发布门户网站时，我注意到它的发布受到信任问题的阻碍。最近关于影响数百万用户的数据泄露的新闻引发了媒体对Facebook的冷嘲热讽——即使是在好天气，Facebook也从未远离表面——因此门户网站的受欢迎程度几乎完全取决于其侵犯隐私的可能性。

周二，在门户网站在商店中实现之前，隐私问题再次凸显。问题是Facebook的广告数据收集系统。Recode的库尔特·瓦格纳（Kurt Wagner）在首次撰写关于门户网站的文章时写道：“通过门户网站收集的任何数据——即使是通话记录数据或应用程序使用数据，比如你收听Spotify的事实——都不会被用于在Facebook上投放广告的目标用户。”Facebook高管向他展示门户网站时告诉瓦格纳。

但在后续报告中，瓦格纳报告说，这些高管无意中误导了他：

Facebook has since reached out to change its answer: Portal doesn’t have ads, but data about who you call and data about which apps you use on Portal can be used to target you with ads on other Facebook-owned properties.

“Portal voice calling is built on the Messenger infrastructure, so when you make a video call on Portal, we collect the same types of information (i.e. usage data such as length of calls, frequency of calls) that we collect on other Messenger-enabled devices. We may use this information to inform the ads we show you across our platforms. Other general usage data, such as aggregate usage of apps, etc., may also feed into the information that we use to serve ads,” a spokesperson said in an email to Recode.

这一结论是不可避免的，而且似乎对Facebook的家庭硬件产品线来说是个坏兆头：即使该公司似乎在不遗余力地收集有关你的数据，展示该设备是如何“设计私有”的，但它自己的发言人仍然很难清楚地说出他们正在收集什么，以及如何使用它。

顺便说一句，至少就门户网站对Messenger基础设施的使用而言，我敢打赌门户网站团队直到最近才知道呼叫数据可以用于针对Facebook用户的广告。公司数据收集业务的轮廓很可能比大多数员工在任何给定时间都能记住的范围更广。

所有这些都可能会让您在预订门户之前暂停一下。

无论如何，周二是Facebook宣布更多客厅计划的不合时宜的时候，但亚历克斯·希思还是为他们做了。他透露了一个名为Ripley的项目的存在：将摄像头**电视，将其变成一个大门户：

The world’s largest social network is building a camera-equipped device that sits atop a TV and allows video calling along with entertainment services like Facebook’s YouTube compe*****, according to people familiar with the matter.

The project, internally codenamed “Ripley,” uses the same core technology as Facebook’s recently announced Portal video chat device for the home. Portal begins shipping next month and uses A.I. to automatically detect and follow people as they move throughout the frame during a video call.

和之前的门户网站一样，Ripley代表了Facebook的一个逻辑延伸，Facebook试图在你生活中的所有屏幕上**一个社交图表和摄像头。和门户网站一样，它也吸引了很多愤怒的推特。

你可以让人们讨厌读故事，但你不能让他们讨厌买可视电话。Facebook认为门户网站是“设计私有”的说法在它发货之前就已经分崩离析了，而那些对购买门户持怀疑态度的消费者可能已经一蹶不振了。

民主

支持特朗普的互联网新宠儿NPC是什么？

凯文·鲁斯（Kevin Roose）报道了在Twitter上发现的一项新的影响力行动，该行动诞生于4Chan，将“不可扮演角色”这一常见的视频游戏理念转变为对自由主义者的侮辱：

Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter. The campaign, which was born in the fever swamps of 4chan and Reddit message boards, involved creating hundreds of fictional personas with gray cartoon avatars, known as NPCs. These accounts posed as liberal activists and were used to spread — among other things — false information about November’s midterm electi***.

Over the weekend, Twitter responded by suspending about 1,500 accounts associated with the NPC trolling campaign. The accounts violated Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content,” according to a person familiar with the company’s enforcement process. The person, who would speak only anonymously, was not authorized to discuss the decision.

谷歌首席执行官表示，对经过审查的中国搜索引擎的测试结果非常棒

在昨天的时事通讯发布后，谷歌首席执行官登台就蜻蜓计划发表了迄今为止最详细的讲话。他提倡谷歌将惠及普通中国公民的想法。TGIF本周应该很有趣。Nitasha Tiku有相关引用：

“It turns out we’ll be able to serve well over 99 percent of the queries,” that users request. What’s more, “There are many, many areas where we would provide information better than what’s available,” such as searching for cancer treatments, Pichai said. “Today people either get fake cancer treatments or they actually get useful information.”

Facebook打击英国政治团体的“黑暗广告”

Facebook的政治广告数据库目前位于美国和加拿大，仅次于英国。但Alex Hern和Jim Waterston报告说，存在着重要的差异：

Unlike in the US, where the political transparency features were launched this year, the British iteration will not require adverts on political issues to be labelled and registered.

Instead, the company is taking a narrow view, requiring registration for ads “that reference political figures, political parties, electi***, legislation before Parliament and past referenda that are the subject of national debate”.

This means that while adverts on topics such as Brexit will be made public in the ad archive, promoti*** on general topics such as immigration will not be covered.

我是亚马逊的雇员。我的公司不应该把面部识别技术卖给警察。

媒体发表了一封微软员工的***，要求该公司不要追求一份价值100亿美元的五角大楼云计算合同。一天后，一名匿名亚马逊员工向媒体批评该公司向执法机构**面部识别技术：

A couple weeks ago, my co-workers delivered a letter to this effect, signed by over 450 employees, to Jeff Bezos and other executives. The letter also contained demands to kick Palantir, the software firm that powers much of ICE’s deportation and tracking program, off Amazon Web Services and to institute employee oversight for ethical decisi***.

We know Bezos is aware of these concerns and the industry-wide conversation happening right now. On stage, he acknowledged that big tech’s products might be misused, even exploited, by autocrats. But rather than meaningfully explain how Amazon will act to prevent the bad uses of its own technology, Bezos suggested we wait for society’s “immune resp***e.”

If Amazon waits, we think the harm will be difficult to undo.

Facebook黑客在欧洲影响了300万人，这是GDPR的首次重大考验

爱尔兰数据保护委员会（Irish Data Protection Commission）周二表示，9月份Facebook的漏洞影响了300万欧洲公民。萨尔瓦多·罗德里格斯-有趣的事实，我的老室友报告：

This security breach is expected to be the first major test of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation, and the number of European users affected could help determine the severity of any penalties against the company.

Under GDPR, companies handling the personal data of Europeans must adhere to strict requirements for holding and securing that information, and must report breaches to authorities within 72 hours. Under the regulation, companies can face fines of up to 4 percent of their annual global revenue. For Facebook, which made more than $40.65 billion in revenue in 2017, that fine could be as much as $1.63 billion.

扩大我们镇压选民的政策

Jessica Leinwand澄清了Facebook最近在消除与选举有关的错误信息方面对其政策所做的改变：

We already prohibit offers to buy or sell votes as well as misrepresentati*** about the dates, locati***, times and qualificati*** for casting a ballot. We have been removing this type of content since 2016.

Last month, we extended this policy further and are now banning misrepresentati*** about how to vote, such as claims that you can vote by text message, and statements about whether a vote will be counted. (e.g. “If you voted in the primary, your vote in the general election won’t count.”) We’ve also recently introduced a new reporting option on Facebook so that people can let us know if they see voting information that may be incorrect, and have set up dedicated reporting channels for state election authorities so that they can do the same.

极右翼喜欢YouTube

Zack Beauchamp看了两项研究：一项来自Bellingcat，我在昨天的时事通讯中提到了这项研究；另一位来自欧洲的研究人员，试图在推特上对右翼极端分子进行“普查”。两者都将YouTube视为激进主义的强大力量：

In short, these recent reports make it clear that YouTube’s design has made it a powerful tool for far-right recruiting. There’s a tremendous library of far-right content on the site, as one might expect on a largely unregulated video uploading service, and the alt-right spends significant effort spreading these videos on alternate platforms.

What’s more, the videos appear to be effective at radicalizing people. A not-insignificant number of people exposed to these videos, either via YouTube’s algorithm or a link on another platform, finds them persuasive — and end up joining the alt-right or other far-right movements as a result.

在别处

硅谷黑人在家附近遭遇警方袭击

这是一个关于Chinedu Valentine Okobi的令人心碎的故事，他是一名手无寸铁的36岁男子，10月3日在湾区与警察发生了搏斗。他被***击中后死亡。他的妹妹埃贝尔·奥科比（Ebele Okobi）是Facebook的非洲公共政策主管。公司高管已站出来分享奥克比的故事，并再次关注警察**问题：

In the wake of her brother’s killing, every senior leader at the company, including Mark Zuckerberg, has reached out to her to show support, she said. Current and former Facebook colleagues have used their connecti*** to help spread her brother’s story among activists and the news media.

Several Facebook executives are expected to attend Mr. Okobi’s memorial service. A memorial fund to make donati*** to the Equal Justice Initiative in his honor has been set up on Facebook.

Facebook在电信设备上的大赌注

Ina Fried向我们介绍了Facebooks的电信基础设施项目，Facebook帮助电信行业以较低的成本构建网络，希望它能将更多Facebook用户带入互联网：

At its TIP summit in London, Facebook announced Terragraph trials have started with its partners in Hungary, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Terragraph uses the same components as a high-speed, high-frequency wireless protocol known as WiGig to deliver gigabit speeds to dense underserved urban areas at a fraction of the cost of fiber.

Facebook前安全主管警告科技的“负面影响”，并计划帮助解决这些问题

亚历克斯·斯塔莫斯——他的推特账户最近变得非常好正在斯坦福大学建立一个“研究所”，将技术人员、华盛顿政策制定者和学者紧密地联系在一起。Craig Timberg和Elizabeth Dwoskin报道：

“There aren’t processes to thoughtfully think through these trade-offs,” he said in an interview ahead of his talk at the university’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. “You end up with these for-profit, very powerful organizati*** that are not democratically accountable, making decisi*** that are in their best and often short-term interest … without there being a much more open and democratic discussion of what these issues are.”

He hopes the new initiative, called the Stanford Internet Observatory, will help unite “sometimes warring facti***” of academia, tech companies and Washington policymakers to work together to help solve “the negative impacts technology can have on society,” he said.

广告商称，Facebook一年多来没有披露关键指标错误

根据一项新的诉讼，Facebook在2016年告知广告商之前，一年多来一直了解如何衡量视频广告的收视率。

Instagram存在严重的骚扰问题

上周泰勒·洛伦兹告诉我们，青少年在Instagram上经常受到欺凌。现在，她与Instagram的一些工作人员谈论了他们所看到的：

“There’s an effort called ‘kindness,’ which is to reduce bullying and haras**ent, but there’s not that many people working on it,” said Alex, a current Instagram employee who asked to be referred to by a gender-neutral pseudonym. “Generally, what you’ll find is a lot of these efforts on haras**ent or bullying, or there’s a new feature to track how much time you spend—they’re mostly done for PR.” Another Instagram employee told me nearly the same thing: that Instagram’s anti-bullying rhetoric “doesn’t seem connected to what’s actually going on in the company.”

Instagram的Kevin Systrom的下一步是什么？飞行课

说到Instagram——如果你和我一样，对创始人上个月辞职的原因感到困惑，那么现在你可以观看凯文·西斯特罗姆（Kevin Systrom）对劳伦·古德（Lauren Goode）的采访，自己分析他的肢体语言和语调。

推特向人们的**发送了神秘的通知

嘿，这是我写的(其原因与发送给触发徽章图标的“不可见通知”有关。）

Twitter, the Bluth Company of Silicon Valley social networks, kicked off Tuesday by sending users incomprehensible text strings via push notificati***. A wide range of Twitter users tweeted their notificati***, which c***isted of long strings of numbers and lowercase letters, followed by a colon and another number. Maybe it’s a random burst of data. Maybe Twitter has revealed the nuclear launch codes! Either way, it should be a fun afternoon.

打破微信对中国社交网络的控制（美元）

你会相信在一个专制独裁的国家里，社交网络之间的竞争比在我们的****天堂里还要激烈吗？嗯，有！Juro Osawa和Yunan Zhang报道：

Imagine if Facebook’s key lieutenants quit to launch a rival product. In China, something like that just happened. Two of the people who helped develop WeChat, the nearly universal chat app run by Tencent, recently created new social networks called Pop and Echo.

It comes amid signs WeChat’s grip over social networking and media c***umption in China may not be as total as it once was, leaving openings for newcomers and potentially a more fragmented market. While the new contenders are young, the amount of backing they are getting shows investors believe new social apps more narrowly focused on photo- and video-sharing, where WeChat is less dominant, could pay off.

短片如何创造了世界上最有价值的初创公司

Peter Yang调查了为什么中国短格式视频Douyin在Vine失败的地方成功。我认为这不是一个完整的解释，但至少值得考虑：

Music as the inspiration: The vast majority of short videos on Douyin have a 5–15s music clip playing in the background. The song defines what creators do in the video and creators can click a song to see other videos and get inspired to create similar content.

Create trends and copy them: Similarly, viewers can browse Douyin’s discover tab to see a frequent rotation of trending hashtags and contests to get inspired to create content. The Douyin team actively curates new trends in partnership with its top creators.

特朗普支持者的约会应用Donald Daters泄露了用户数据

那些只想和特朗普支持者约会的人的生活中有足够多的问题。下面是扎克·惠塔克的作品：

On its launch day alone, the app had a little over 1,600 users and counting.

We know because a security researcher found issues with the app that made it possible to download the entire user database.

发射

Pinterest正在将更多的窗口购物者转变为具有最新功能的买家

凯特·克拉克（Kate Clark）更新了Pinterest如何利用其赚钱的可购买PIN码：

The three new features include up-to-date pricing and stock information on all product pins, with links that take pinners to the retailer’s website, plus a new “Products like this” category under each fashion and home decor pin, which includes stylistically similar products that Pinterest thinks that user will like. It’s also added a new shopping shortcut within the app that connects users to similar products to a given pin. That new feature is accessible when users hold down on any home or style pin and click on the price tag logo (second image below).

拿

这是一位前谷歌工程师的作品，他曾被邀请参与一个与中国审查制度有关的公司项目。他说他顶住了他的老板，并鼓励其他谷歌人也这么做：

最后。。。

新社交媒体用户指南

River Clegg对每个社交网络都有一些讽刺性的新规则，比如这条针对Twitter的规则。

All Twitter users must now check a box indicating whether they’re a white supremacist or a comedian. It will just be easier this way.

说实话，我是个喜剧演员。

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