如果您有几分钟的时间，我将非常感谢您告诉我如何使这篇时事通讯对您更有用。感谢您对界面的支持！

那么，最近有没有读过好的媒体帖子？

周四下午3点左右，当亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）发表了一篇博客文章时，硅谷的每家办公室都突然停止了工作，我们将在今后几年中讨论这一问题。我意识到这并不完全是一个社交网络和民主的故事：但这是一个关于平台和民主的故事：世界上最富有的人之一，同时拥有其最重要的公司和有影响力的报纸，如何发现自己成为美国总统亲密伙伴的目标。

这也是一个关于他如何利用其他两个平台——媒体和推特——在勒索未遂之前脱身的故事。

假设贝佐斯自己写了这篇文章——很难想象他会把第一稿外包出去——首先要说的是，他是一位非常优秀的作家(这么多年来，每次开会前都要写六页纸的论文，这是值得的！）

在一个一定是极度紧张的时刻，他设法表现出一种平静的娱乐气氛——而不是一点点的自我满足感，他让他的敌人把他们所有的oafish要求写下来，在那里可以与我们所有人分享。贝佐斯还透露，他已经聘请了世界上最好的人来调查他的敌人，并给了这个人一个无限的预算来进行报复：

To lead my investigation, I retained Gavin de Becker. I’ve known Mr. de Becker for twenty years, his expertise in this arena is excellent, and he’s one of the **artest and most capable leaders I know. I asked him to prioritize protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter.

导致《*****》出版的事实正如你可能猜到的那样复杂。贝佐斯正在经历离婚，最近《国家询问者》发表了一些他发给新女友劳伦·桑切斯的私密短信。贝佐斯让他的调查人员调查询问者是如何获得这些文本的，研究小组开始寻求一种理论，即文本的出版是出于政治动机的。

毕竟，贝佐斯拥有《*****》，并且经常受到唐纳德·特朗普总统在推特上的怒火。该报在其专栏作家、沙特阿拉伯持不同政见者贾马尔·哈肖吉（Jamal Khashoggi）被谋杀后发表了大胆、开创性的新闻报道。

据报道，特朗普的盟友大卫·派克（David Pecker）在沙特阿拉伯拥有商业利益，他在《问询者》背后经营着这家公司。而AMI公司自去年与联邦**就总统为两名报告与特朗普有婚外情的**沉默而支付的费用达成豁免协议以来，在法律上一直如履薄冰。阿美似乎非常担心贝佐斯的团队正在挖掘的信息，并不顾一切地让他保持沉默。

当事情变得如此复杂时，人们真的别无选择，只能写一篇关于它们的中篇文章。

一些即时收获：

• 在贝佐斯因为很多好的理由受到攻击的时候——洛杉矶时报今天刚刚报道说亚马逊可能从送货员那里偷取小费——这篇博文的发表产生了巨大的善意。几乎每个人都有**，如果你曾经担心有人会泄露它们，那么你几乎肯定是站在贝佐斯一边的。复仇色情是错误的，任何通过你的**勒索你的人都是山羊。
• 性专栏作家丹·萨维奇预言，有一天会有这么多人的**被泄露，泄露**的威胁将减少，人们将不再担心因为**而失去工作。贝佐斯的帖子在这方面似乎是一个重要的举动——即使**最终泄露，他的举动也有助于使拿走和分享**的行为正常化。五年前，如果你的**被泄露，责任一般都在你身上；展望未来，罪魁祸首将是那些偷走它们的**。
• 这就是说，支持色情受害者复仇权利所赢得的善意似乎不会自然地转化为，比如说，支持纽约立法者支持你的计划，接受数十亿美元的税收激励，在那里建立一个地区办事处。
• 这一举动似乎有可能加剧贝佐斯和特朗普之间的紧张关系，因此亚马逊和美国**之间的紧张关系，我甚至不想预测这种情况。
• 这是2018年妇女游行以来推特上的第一个好日子(我讲了一些笑话。）
• 这是有史以来最好的一天。

界面指南

2017年，学术和新闻评论家杰伊·罗森（Jay Rosen）写了一篇题为“展示你的作品：新闻业信任的新术语”的博客文章，在这篇文章中，他为新闻业的未来勾勒了一个愿景，其中包括记者告诉你他们来自哪里。他们如何看待世界？他们在报告中引入了哪些假设？

从那以后，我一直希望自己写这样一篇公开的文章。今天，我出版了它：界面指南。在这本书中，新的和潜在的读者可以看到我涉及的主题，我从哪里获得信息，以及如何最好地与我联系。我还阐述了我对社交网络和民主的一些信念，并承诺每季度更新一次——一种新闻变化日志。罗森说他喜欢，这对我来说已经足够了。但我希望你也能读一下，让我知道你的想法。

民主

Facebook在未经德国同意的情况下下令停止合并WhatsApp和Instagram数据

德国的Bundeskartellamt（发音为“Bundeskartellamt”）正在告诉Facebook停止在人们浏览网页时收集数据，或者仅仅是WhatsApp和Instagram，并将其链接到他们的Facebook帐户。这是Facebook商业模式的核心——本·汤普森（Ben Thompson）称之为数据工厂——因此Facebook**这一举措。詹姆斯·文森特：

Regulators within Europe have already expressed concern about this combinatorial approach to user tracking. In 2017, the EU fined Facebook $122 million for submitting “misleading information” about plans for its WhatsApp acquisition. At the time of the acquisition in 2014, the company told regulators it would be unable to link the profiles of WhatsApp and Facebook users. Then, in 2016, it did exactly that.

Despite such regulatory action, Facebook is ramping up efforts to tie users from its different platforms closer together. Last month, it said was planning to rebuild the infrastructure of Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp so that all three services run on a single unified platform.

参议员们希望在Facebook和谷歌备受争议的研究应用程序上得到答案

与此同时，一些美国立法者正在就TechCrunch上周披露的Facebook和谷歌使用的市场研究项目提出问题(立法者提出问题是这一过程的第一步。几个月后，该过程结束，科技副高管在听证会上回避了这些问题，而且从未采取任何立法行动。）

Facebook在中国的小小销售场地如何帮助产生巨额广告收入

Paul Mozur和Lin Qiqing报道，尽管Facebook在中国被禁，但去年从中国广告商那里获得了50亿美元的销售额。秘密：当地合作伙伴，向当地人介绍Facebook并帮助他们购买广告：

The desire by Chinese companies and other entities to get in front of people internationally has unexpectedly turned China into one of Facebook’s largest sources of advertising revenue, even though the social network itself is not available in the country. Charles Shen, chief executive of Meet Social, said his company anticipated doing $1 billion to $2 billion in ad sales on Facebook and Instagram this year. Each day, he added, Meet Social’s software puts up about 20,000 Chinese ads on Facebook.

应俄罗斯的要求，谷歌正在从搜索中删除网站

Hayes Brown报道，谷歌不情愿地遵守俄罗斯当局的命令，清除克里姆林宫认为不合适的搜索结果：

Roskomnadzor, the Russian government’s communicati*** agency, maintains a list of sites that are banned inside the country, ostensibly focusing on those that promote child ****, drug use, and *******. The agency ordered in 2017 that all search engines operating in the country delete sites that it blacklists from results, as part of a new regulation banning the use of VPN’s to browse the internet anonymously.

Last year, Google was hit with a relatively **all fine — about $7500 — for failing to act on Roskomnadzor’s orders.

错误信息如何助长蒂华纳边境地区的反移民情绪

杰西卡·科比安（Jessica Cobian）探讨了在最近的移民大篷车事件中，社交网络上的错误信息如何导致墨西哥的暴力冲突：

By the time the caravan reached Tijuana, the misleading images and fraudulent posts had gone viral on social media. Even as some civic groups welcomed the caravan with open arms, social media helped amplify the voices of people expressing hostility toward the migrant caravan. Groups on Facebook such as “Tijuana against the migrant caravan” called on members to rise up in opposition.

Days after the caravan’s arrival in Tijuana, groups, including some associated with the Facebook group, organized anti-immigrant rallies—a stark contrast to the reception of the caravan in southern Mexico or even Mexico City. On November 14, a violent confrontation erupted in Playas de Tijuana, during which people in the crowd were heard calling the caravan members “invaders.”

亚马逊的家庭安全公司正在把每个人都变成警察

邻居是一个社交网络，由亚马逊去年以10亿美元收购的智能家居公司Ring生产的设备的所有者组成。正如你所料，网络上的帖子似乎非常偏向白人，抱怨他们的社区里有形迹可疑的非白人。卡罗琳·哈斯金斯报道：

In Amazon’s version of a “new neighborhood watch,” petty crimes are policed heavily, and raci** is common. Video posts on Neighbors disproportionately depict people of color, and descripti*** often use racist language or make racist assumpti*** about the people shown. In many ways, the Neighbors/Ring ecosystem is like a virtual gated community: people can opt themselves in by downloading the Neighbors app, and with a Ring camera, users can frame neighbors as a threat.

Motherboard individually reviewed more than 100 user-submitted posts in the Neighbors app between December 6 and February 5, and the majority of people reported as “suspicious” were people of color.

许多流行的iPhone应用程序都会不请自来地秘密记录你的屏幕

正如你所知，在苹果，隐私权是一项人权。扎克·惠塔克透露，一家名为Glas**ox的分析公司正在记录客户在各种应用程序中使用的每一次会话，并将其报告给开发人员，这一点非常好。当然，客户从未被告知。当天结束时，苹果公司告诉开发者向客户披露这种做法，或者将其从应用程序中删除。这只是一个很好的例子，说明新闻业在做它应该做的事情。

在别处

推特最终分享了它的每日用户群有多大——而且它比Snapchat小得多

据库尔特·瓦格纳（Kurt Wagner）报道，Twitter今天首次宣布了每日活跃用户数：它的每日活跃用户数为1.26亿，而Snap的每日活跃用户数为1.86亿。Twitter试图将这一事件描述为一件积极的事情，因为这一数字正在增长。与此同时，其每月用户数量正在减少，该公司计划停止报告。

Facebook仍在试图弄清楚青少年对什么感兴趣

库尔特·瓦格纳（Kurt Wagner）报道说，Facebook正在向Messenger Kids投入更多资源，这是一款用于建立6岁以下用户渠道的应用程序。

女人们并没有放弃谢丽尔·桑德伯格

Rebecca Greenfield发现Facebook的首席运营官仍然拥有强大的支持基础(我认为没有人真正怀疑过这一点。）

There are signs that Sandberg’s reputation is on the mend. It helps that Facebook doesn’t seem to be suffering any: fourth-quarter results were better than expected and the stock is up. Both the company and Lean In say they’re committed to Sandberg’s leadership, and from Switzerland to San Francisco, women, particularly those working in technology, are coming out in support of the embattled COO.

“I still look up to her,” said Annie Hsieh, an engineering manager at Square Root, an Austin-based tech company. Like more than a dozen women interviewed by Bloomberg, Hsieh said she doesn’t think Sandberg acted to the highest moral and ethical standards, but she also knows how hard it is to make it to the top in the tech world. “She’s just another human and she’s not a superhero. I think some of the critici** is valid and a lot of it is unfair.”

我从生活中剔除了“五大”科技巨头。那是地狱

克什米尔·希尔以一个可怕的特技结束了她的精彩系列：试图在没有五大科技巨头的情况下生活：试图同时没有五大科技巨头：

Critics of the big tech companies are often told, “If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.” I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple.

These companies are unavoidable because they control internet infrastructure, online commerce, and information flows. Many of them specialize in tracking you around the web, whether you use their products or not. These companies started out selling books, offering search results, or showcasing college hotties, but they have expanded enormously and now touch almost every online interaction. These companies look a lot like modern monopolies.

拖延、否认和交易流：两名《****》记者从7位数的Facebook作品中获利

Sheera Frenkel和Cecelia Kang（我经常在这里介绍他们的杰出作品）在2016年美国总统选举前夕以及选举后的混乱中，为Facebook编年史带来了一笔巨大的图书交易。期待阅读这篇文章。

Snap解雇了联合创始人Bobby Murphy小组的研究人员

亚历克斯·希思（Alex Heath）报告说，Snap解雇了五名员工，并制定了一项绩效改进计划，这可能会让更多人离开Snap。我是说，比平常多！

TikTok**了经验丰富的YouTube执行官，让我们加倍努力

Alex Heath报道说，TikTok已经聘请了Vanessa Pappas，她领导YouTube早期的工作，帮助创作者扩大受众。

发射

Facebook将公布谁上传了你的联系信息用于广告定位

我喜欢这个：Facebook现在会告诉你为什么你会看到某些广告，Josh Contine报道。解释用户提要的内容是平台重建信任的最佳工具之一：

Starting February 28th, Facebook’s “Why am I seeing this?” button in the drop-down menu of feed posts will reveal more than the brand that paid for the ad, some biographical details they targeted and if they’d uploaded your contact info. Facebook will start to show when your contact info was uploaded, if it was by the brand or one of their agency/developer partners and when access was shared between partners.

Facebook在寻找“有意义的”对话时添加了新的群组工具

Jake Kastrenakes报道，Facebook今天举行了集团管理员峰会，并推出了新的管理功能：

Group administrators will now be able to format their posts with larger text, block quotes, and bulleted lists. All groups will also now be able to use Facebook’s mentorship feature, which allows administrators to pair people up to work together on skill development or other support programs.

More groups are gaining the ability to offer subscripti***, too, letting them create separate content and conversati*** for dedicated members. That feature was introduced last June, but it’s still limited to groups that Facebook chooses to partner with.

Facebook将通过印度、巴基斯坦、孟加拉国、巴西使用的工具帮助您献血

寻呼Facebook董事会成员Peter Thiel！该公司有一个工具，可以让巴基斯坦、孟加拉国和巴西的人们注册献血，Erin Brodwin报道。

Instagram正在将IGTV预览放到您的主提要中

Dami Lee报道了为IGTV注入活力的最新努力：

Instagram today announced that IGTV previews will begin showing up in users’ main feeds starting today. Ideally, you would tap the one-minute previews to go watch the full video in IGTV, something I can’t imagine anyone would want to do voluntarily.

从美国和巴西开始，企业现在可以对来自Facebook的Instagram消息做出响应

Instagram现在只是Facebook的另一个名字，因此企业现在可以在Facebook上回复Instagram消息(事实上，我喜欢的是消费者版的，因为Instagram没有DMs的网络界面。）

拿

Facebook将在德国遭遇用户数据禁令

Alex Webb表示，德国阻止Facebook整合从各地收集的数据的举动给社交网络带来了一个真正的问题：

Right now, any website hosting a Facebook “like” button or a link to “Share on Facebook” sends a cookie to the Menlo Park, California-based firm whenever a browser visits that site. Because engagement on its core platform is softening, those cookies can help the social media company build more complete user profiles. That in turn improves ad targeting.

The German measures will likely prohibit the sharing of those cookies, BamS reported. Significantly, if the case made by the regulator is compelling, a wider investigation by the European Union could follow. Germany is very much the leader on the continent for countries deciding how to approach regulation, and any big change it makes could be the thin end of the wedge.

现在是修正欧盟版权指令的时候了

谷歌政策负责人肯特·沃克（Kent Walker）希望“修正”（扼杀）欧盟令人恐惧的第13条，该条要求谷歌在上传任何侵犯版权的视频之前进行过滤，然后将其上传到YouTube上。但沃克还提请注意第11条，这将阻止谷歌显示文章片段，包括完整的标题，并可能因此损害出版商，他说(有人能向我解释一下为什么欧盟要禁止谷歌显示全部头条吗？）

Every year, we run thousands of experiments in Search. We recently ran one in the EU to understand the impact of the proposed Article 11 if we could show only URLs, very short fragments of headlines, and no preview images. All versi*** of the experiment resulted in substantial traffic loss to news publishers.

Even a moderate version of the experiment (where we showed the publication title, URL, and video thumbnails) led to a 45 percent reduction in traffic to news publishers. Our experiment dem***trated that many users turned instead to non-news sites, social media platforms, and online video sites—another unintended c***equence of legislation that aims to support high-quality journali**. Searches on Google even increased as users sought alternate ways to find information.

最后。。。

“真是一群人！”这名男子在Instagram照片上评论说，他妈的背后暗箭伤人的叛徒根本懒得邀请他参加玛格丽塔之夜

《洋葱》有当天最相关的内容，恰好全部由这篇标题和随附的照片组成。

顺便说一句，今晚我自己也要喝玛格丽特酒。考虑一下自己吧！

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