嘿，你经常看界面吗？我们正在做一个简短的调查，很想了解您对我们如何将时事通讯做得更好的想法。如果你花几分钟来分享你的想法，对我来说意义重大。对于第一天就拿走它的300个人，你们现在是我最好的朋友，没有什么能把我们分开。

周二晚上，《财富》杂志的Michal Lev Ram报道说，Facebook员工将“根据一个全新的标准进行评判”。她说，今后，员工的评价将部分基于他们如何帮助Facebook应对重大社会问题：

The change to the bonus structure was announced by Zuckerberg at an all-hands meeting at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters Tuesday morning, one day after the company celebrated its 15th anniversary. According to the company, none of the new, individual factors are “assigned any specific weighting or dollar amount of the target bonus,” leaving the exact formula up to its compensation and governance committee. [...]

In a call with Fortune Tuesday afternoon, Facebook’s chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, said there isn’t an easy formula for figuring out progress on its new goals, including improvements to safety and security, though the company is tracking and now publishing many metrics, like how many fake accounts it takes down daily. “This is going to be our first time figuring this out,” Schroepfer said about the change.

这条消息引起了我的注意，部分原因是我刚刚写了一篇文章，讲述了以公制形式捕捉社会进步理念的困难。正如我昨天写的：

One of Facebook’s key challenges is that it’s simultaneously working on hard problems across so many dimensi*** that it’s difficult to quantify what “progress” really looks like. Fighting information operati*** doesn’t resolve down neatly to a handful of metrics that you can nudge up or down over time. It’s impossible for me to identify the goal posts that, if Facebook could only kick the ball through, would lead most of its critics to agree that the platform had been “fixed.”

现在看来，Facebook正致力于准确识别这些指标和目标帖子，并要求员工负责满足这些指标和目标帖子。至少就目前而言，更大的问题是，员工的责任到底有多大。为了学到更多，我们必须做一些数学。

我们知道Facebook的年薪中位数是24万美元，包括工资、奖金和股票奖励。因此，假设一个普通工人的年薪可能在15万美元左右。

令我惊讶的是，Facebook实际上公开了它的奖金结构。我们虚构的工人得到了一个个人奖金目标，比如说15%。然后是一个单独的性能倍数，正如您所想象的，它变化很大。最后，还有一个公司绩效乘数，它通常是三个乘数中最小的一个。把这些百分比加起来，乘以你的基本工资，这就是你的季度奖金。如果一名员工收入为15万美元，在公司也达到预期的季度达到预期，那么奖金可能为22500美元。

如果员工达到预期，但公司有一个良好的季度，奖金倍数可能会上升25个百分点-在这种情况下，季度奖金将为28125美元。

这对任何人来说都是一笔有意义的钱。但社会进步能解释多少差异？Facebook发言人表示，公司业绩乘数取决于Facebook实现四个不同目标的程度：

First, continue making progress on the major social issues facing the internet and our company.

Second, build new experiences that meaningfully improve people’s lives today and set the stage for even bigger improvements in the future.

Third, keep building our business by supporting the milli*** of businesses — mostly **all businesses — that rely on our services to grow and create jobs.

And fourth, communicate more transparently about what we’re doing and the role our services play in the world.

目前尚不清楚这些将如何加权。如果从收入的角度来看，Facebook有一个可怕的季度，而德国的民主制度崩溃了，那么员工会得到多少分数？我们会及时学习的！

我问了一些前员工，他们认为这一变化对Facebook有多大意义。”“这似乎是一件大事，”其中一人说“实际上很有意义，”另一个人说没有那么有意义，”第三个人说。

Rob Price也与一些前员工进行了交谈：

”This will definitely change things. Most teams at Facebook make decisi*** based on running tests and measuring how it affects metrics,” one source said. “If you take that away, it changes everything.”

But, they cautioned, the difficulty in measuring impact could have negative knock-on effects on company culture. “I suspect this will be a feeding ground for politics and infighting unless it comes with some sort of additional empirical rubric. If it’s just he said vs she said that’s a very different conversation and more of a political skill.”

我相信激励的力量，我也相信激励会产生意想不到的后果(今天在谷歌上搜索了一下，我了解到，创建捕杀老鼠和蛇等害虫的奖励计划会导致人们繁殖老鼠和蛇。你知道，杀了他们。为了奖励。）

从这次重组中可能出现的一个潜在的好情况是，员工将花更多的时间制定改善社会福利的战略，这些战略可以在三个月内实施。一个潜在的坏情况是，以“progress”的名义构建的功能具有负外部性，这些外部性会在这里变成我未来的专栏项目。一个不太可能的情况是，新的激励措施根本没有多大的实际效果。

尽管如此，看到一家公司把钱放在嘴边总是好的。谈论社会进步是良好的第一步。把钱放在后面是一个更好的办法。

界面。。。居住

Vox Media的《深水区》

随着时事通讯的发展，我想到了两件事：（1）播客听起来像什么？（2）现场活动会是什么样子？我很高兴地说，下个月我将在奥斯汀西南偏南地区同时尝试这两种想法。在单独的会议中，我将采访亚历克斯·斯塔莫斯（Alex Stamos），他是Facebook口若悬河的前安全主管，以及克雷格·纽马克（Craig Newmark），他是Craigslist的联合创始人，也是一位致力于新闻事业的慈善家。这是由Verge的母公司Vox Media组织的为期三天的活动Deep End的一部分。

如果你打算去奥斯汀，你可以在这个链接注册，亲眼看看那里的乐趣。我想在城里的时候见见一些读者。

民主

库莫和纽约参议院发生冲突，亚马逊交易遭遇新阻力

这是我周一的一个重大失误：纽约参议院的民主党人正在努力阻挠亚马逊收购地区办事处1的交易：

The ability of a local legislator to block the deal to bring a major new Amazon campus to Long Island City was exactly what Mr. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio had tried to avoid when they decided to use a state development process and to bypass more onerous city rules. Opposition, while vocal, seemed futile.

But now, with the insistence of Senate Democrats on appointing Mr. Gianaris to the little-known Public Authorities Control Board, those who want to stop Amazon from coming to Queens have gotten their most tangible boost yet. The board will have to decide on the development plan for Amazon, Mr. Cuomo has said, and could veto it.

WhatsApp讲述了它是如何打击批量消息和伪造帐户的

Manish Singh参加了WhatsApp的一次会议，WhatsApp向记者讲述了其取缔坏演员的努力：

Overall, WhatsApp bans about 2 million accounts on its platform each month, a spokesperson said. To address this issue, a machine learning system uses learnings from the company’s past dealings with problematic accounts and from specific scenarios engineers followed when taking down accounts, said Matt Jones, a software engineer at WhatsApp. This machine learning system has reached a level of sophistication that allows it to ban 20 percent of bad accounts at the time of registration, according to the company.

In terms of overall flags, Jones said WhatsApp looks at various factors, including the user’s IP address and the country of origination for phone numbers used to sign up for the service (and whether both are pointing to the same location), how old the account is, and whether that account started sending a lot of texts as soon as it was created. Seventy-five percent of the 2 million accounts WhatsApp bans in a month are handled without human intervention or a report filed by a user, said Carl Woog, a spokesperson for WhatsApp.

法新社将其Facebook事实调查扩展为阿拉伯语

用阿拉伯语进行更多的事实检查感觉是一件好事，不管你对事实检查的效果有什么感觉：

Agence France-Presse is extending its fact-checking deal with Facebook to counter fake news in Arabic, it said Wednesday.

The new contract means that AFP, one of the world’s big three news agencies, will extend its worldwide network of fact-checkers – which is already up and running across 16 countries in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

第13条又回来了——而且变得更糟，而不是更好

朱莉娅·雷达（Julia Reda）报告说，在德国显然与法国达成协议后，欧盟让大型科技平台安装严格的上传过滤器以防止任何版权内容传播的努力比一周前更接近成为现实：

Most likely, Germany’s and France’s compromise will be rubber-stamped by the Council on Friday, 8 February, and then a final trilogue negotiation will take place with the Parliament on Monday, 11 February.

MEPs, most of whom are fighting for reelection, will get one final say. Last September, a narrow majority for Article 13 could only be found in the Parliament after a **all business exception was included that was much stronger than the foul deal France and Germany are now proposing – but there’s unfortunately no reason to believe that Parliament negotiator Axel Voss will stand his ground and insist on this point in trialogue. Instead, it will come down to the final vote in the plenary in March or April, where all MEPs have a say.

YouTube的模糊阴谋论政策为平台带来了问题

如果主持人做了一个“只是在这里问问题”的节目，YouTube是否应该推广或从有关阴谋论的视频中获利？朱莉娅·亚历山大调查(在我看来，这似乎是“边缘内容”这一模糊概念的一个明显例子。）

YouTube is attempting to draw a line between series like Dawson’s, which don’t explicitly present c***piracies as fact, and shows like Infowars, which promoted the PizzaGate c***piracy theory as truth. But in doing so, it allows for a broad gray area where popular videos can present c***piracy theories as possibilities without being penalized.

Dawson knew he was walking the line with both YouTube and advertisers when posting his video. He told commentator Philip DeFranco that he expected his video to be demonetized because it “wasn’t gonna be brand friendly” for advertisers. In the video, he also includes a brief disclaimer — moments after saying the iPhone spying theory is real — that “these are all just theories, none of them are facts, and they’re not meant to hurt any one or any company.”

这张涂改过的**议员戴着KKK兜帽的照片正在传播，推特拒绝阻止它

简·利特维年科（Jane Lytvynenko）报道了在推特上传播的一张图片，该图片歪曲了国会中穿着白色衣服纪念选举权运动的妇女是三K党成员。这很难看，但对我来说，这似乎是一个相当明确的模仿案例——尽管正如故事所指出的，Twitter的政策禁止描绘与仇恨言论相关的符号。

Twitter is allowing an altered photo comparing women members of Congress who wore white to the State of the Union to the KKK to continue to circulate on its platform on Wednesday despite its own policy that doesn’t allow “symbols historically associated with hate groups.”

Members of Congress — mostly Democratic women — wore white clothing on Tuesday night to honor the suffragist movement. The image, which first aired on the far-right c***piracy outlet Infowars, photoshopped white Klan-style hoods on the women. Its most popular iteration was spread on Twitter by radio host Mark Simone to his 175,000 followers. It was also shared by Katrina Pierson, a former Trump spokesperson who is a senior adviser to the president’s reelection campaign, and by Ann Coulter.

在别处

Facebook的营业额：领导Facebook公关团队的**即将离开

卡琳·马鲁尼（Caryn Marooney）是Facebook的首席通信主管之一，八年后即将离开公司。多年来，我一直很喜欢与卡琳共事，我怀疑当她准备好重新投入这场斗争时，她会有很大的需求。

15年后，什么是Facebook？

Paris Martineau和Louise Matsakis列出了所有已知的Facebook产品和部门，试图回答标题问题。答案是有很多不同的东西！

Oracle没有预见到数据清算的到来

Nico Grant报道了Cambridge Analytica的一个有趣的下游效应：Oracle的广告软件业务正在苦苦挣扎，因为Facebook在丑闻发生后关闭了合作伙伴API：

Before the Cambridge story broke, it wasn’t uncommon for Oracle account managers to do 40 percent of their business on Facebook, says one of the former staffers. So while Oracle tried to get Facebook workarounds in place, account managers scrambled to push clients toward Twitter, Pinterest, and other alternatives that at least kept them spending money, that person says. At the same time, the list of companies supplying Oracle with profile data fell by as much as half, they say, because many of those companies couldn’t comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation ahead of its enforcement deadline last May.

Spotify在包括Gimlet和Anchor在内的播客初创公司上的投资高达5亿美元

Anchor是一款精巧的播客**应用，具有丰富的社交功能。Spotify今天将其作为其大力推进播客的一部分，我很好奇它是如何从这里发展起来的。

YouTube悄然停止为品牌安全买单，与代理商的斗争可能会升级

谷歌一直在向那些向第三方付费以确保其广告不会出现在糟糕的YouTube视频上的品牌进行补偿。劳伦·约翰逊（Lauren Johnson）报道说，有迹象表明，该公司认为其已基本解决了品牌安全问题，并已停止报销。

Tinder去年增加了100多万用户

Ashley Carman报告说Tinder仍显示出令人印象深刻的增长：

Match Group, Tinder’s parent company, announced its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it disclosed that Tinder added 1.2 million subscribers last year alone. That surge led the brand to close the year out with $805 million in revenue.

That’s nearly as much as what the rest of Match’s dating brands, which include Match.com and OkCupid, pull in combined at $872 million. Match says most of Tinder’s revenue growth is thanks to Tinder Gold, which gives members certain limited features like more Super Likes per day, the ability to swipe around the world, and insight into who’s already liked them.

这个视频聊天应用程序希望更像Fortnite，而不是Facebook

贝特西·莫里斯（Betsy Morris）在平台上推出付费游戏后的几周内介绍了群组视频聊天应用Houseparty：

When users play “Heads Up!” through Houseparty, they get the first three games free. After that, games cost 99 cents each. In its first two weeks, the game was played nearly four million times. One user has played the game 266 times.

Houseparty now plans to add more games to the app and develop other offerings based on shared interests or experiences, like cooking, crafting, fitness, wellness and homework. The idea is to be less like ad-supported models like Facebook and Snap Inc., and more similar to the popular video game Fortnite, where users spend hours hanging out and make purchases that accentuate the experience.

前囚犯创建“监狱Instagram”，监狱长对此很满意

我喜欢奥利维亚·卡维尔（Olivia Carville）的这个故事，这个故事讲述了三个由囚犯和为囚犯开发的应用程序，这些应用程序可以让他们更轻松地接收来自外部亲人的照片和消息，并帮助他们与外部世界保持联系：

Pigeonly is one of at least three apps—all launched by ex-c***—that are revolutionizing communicati*** between prisoners and their loved ones. Even as the outside world has embraced texting, video chats and social media, U.S. pris*** have largely remained technological dead zones, where inmates typically wait in line and pay to use antiquated computers running stripped-down email services. The trio of apps are slowly but surely disrupting a prison communicati*** industry dominated by a handful of companies with little incentive to cut prices or boost services for the 2.3 million people behind bars.

发射

Oculus Go色情版预装剪辑上市

我的意思是，他们说色情是现代历史上每一次媒体革命的中心。祝BadoinkVR好运：

The X-rated Oculus Go headsets sell for $300, which is $100 more than what the base Oculus Go model costs at retail. For that surcharge, buyers get access to dozens of clips from the company’s BadoinkVR, BabeVR, VRCosplayX, and 18VR franchises.

Access to the videos is being offered with a pre-installed app that can be secured with a private PIN, and Badoink promises to frequently update the content made available to buyers. A spokesperson said the company is also working on a subscription option to make additional content available, but this feature won’t be included at launch.

账户链接可能使Instagram成为Facebook登录的继承人

今天在“Instagram和WhatsApp现在只是名字。”

拿

如何阻止Facebook危险的应用程序集成策略

萨利·哈伯德说，联邦贸易委员会应该介入，阻止Facebook统一技术基础设施Instagram、WhatsApp和Facebook Messenger：

The integration Mr. Zuckerberg plans would immunize Facebook’s monopoly power from attack. It would make breaking Instagram and WhatsApp off as independent and viable compe*****s much harder, and thus demands speedy action by the government before it’s too late to take the pieces apart. Mr. Zuckerberg might be betting that he can integrate these three applicati*** faster than any antitrust case could proceed — and he would be right, because antitrust cases take years.

Luckily, the F.T.C. has a way to act quickly. Prompted by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the agency has been investigating Facebook for violating that 2011 c***ent decree, which required it, among other things, to not misrepresent its handling of user information and to create a comprehensive privacy program. The F.T.C. can demand Facebook stop the integration as one of the conditi*** for settling any charges related to the c***ent decree, rather than just imposing an inc***equential fine.

抢购收入：赢得掌声

希拉·奥维德（Shira Ovide）认为，Snap仍存在一些根本性问题，这些问题应取代投资者对其损失放缓的热情：

Those kinds of investments seem to clash with another of Spiegel’s declared “stretch goals” — to generate profits this year. “Profits” are a relative term for Snap, which continues to bleed cash and will for as far as the eye can see. An improvement in free cash flow, for example, meant that “only” 69 cents of cash was incinerated for each dollar of sales in 2018. Progress is relative, but Snap is showing it may someday be a business that can stand on its own two feet.

最后。。。

三星试图把你的冰箱变成**

哦，三星，你是一个充满奇思妙想的深不可测的工厂。你让我在“冷藏”中

The free app works with the Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator, a $4,000 appliance with a touchscreen on the door that you can use to view the family’s schedule, and an ingredient-tracking camera that lets you double-check whether you’re out of milk. With the app, you take a photo of the inside of your fridge to share, and you can swipe right or left based on how the contents of someone else’s speak to you. Never fear, though, you can also just take a photo with your phone if you don’t have the Family Hub.

再见！

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