周五，林肯纪念堂的一场冲突吸引了整个国家，迅速从病毒式推特传播到全国新闻。三个团体——让美国再次伟大的天主教学生、土著权利活动家和黑人民族主义者——在国会大厦发生了冲突，此后的丑陋对抗主导了全国对话。

你从这个故事中得到的东西会因你的身份、你的政治立场以及你对视频片段的理解而有所不同。很可能你已经下定决心了。

我自己的感觉是，戴着一顶MAGA帽子，表达了对一位种族主义总统及其种族主义政策的强烈效忠，而围着一位美洲土著老人，挡住他的去路，就是对他进行威胁。即使在最激烈的时刻，当被称为希伯来以色列人的民族团体的成员对学生们进行辱骂时，学生的陪同人员却不干预，阻止他们嘲笑或向64岁的部落长者做战斧手势，这似乎令人难以置信。

如果你有不同的感觉，我相信你会让我知道的。但这场闹剧各方似乎都同意的一个结论是，我们的媒体和政治生态系统现在似乎被设计来**更多这些超极化冲突。如果是这样，我们可以吸取什么教训？

我想提出一些想法。

冲突可以是“真实的”和“虚假的”。没有人质疑科文顿天主教冲突确实发生的事实。但同样正确的是，推特原始病毒视频的账户似乎使用了一个虚假身份，并且很可能被来历不明的机器人网络放大。Donie O'Sullivan在CNN报道：

The account claimed to belong to a California schoolteacher. Its profile photo was not of a schoolteacher, but of a blogger based in Brazil, CNN Business found. Twitter suspended the account soon after CNN Business asked about it.

On Tuesday, a source familiar with Twitter’s investigation into the account said the company’s initial findings suggest that the account was run from the United States. The source cautioned, however, that determining which country a Twitter account is actually run from can be very difficult.

仅仅因为秘密机器人网络在促进冲突并不意味着冲突是不真实的。但我始终认为，值得考虑的是，社交网络是如何在愤怒中茁壮成长的，以及它的二阶效应是什么(我急忙补充说，愤怒往往是合理和必要的。你知道这个国家有儿童集中营吗？）

你不必在第一天就开始拍摄。科文顿冲突的循环大致是这样的：首先，更倾向自由主义的人在推特上链接到原始视频，**高中生的侵略行为。后来，保守派在推特上发布了与其他视频的链接，声称这对学生来说并不像看上去那么糟糕——这促使一些媒体成员收回了他们最初的愤怒。这引发了新一轮对媒体的大喊大叫，因为他们被不诚实的演员吓得闭口不言(劳拉·瓦格纳（Laura Wagner）的作品在后一个阵营中，非常好。）

但我确实认为，观看更多**活动的视频是有价值的，因为它是在提出接受之前出现的。我观察的冲突角度越多，我就越不安于青少年的行为——以及他们的同伴的不作为。不是每个人都有机会等到故事的第四天再拍。但是很多媒体的成员。。。做如果你这样做，你可以考虑保持你的舌头，至少24个小时左右。正是在这里，Twitter的激励机制值得批评——你越早发布第一个视频，你的观点越具有煽动性，你就越有可能让它进入算法的同温层(一位秃鹫投稿人在周末被解雇，因为他说他希望孩子们都死了。）

是的，一切都是游戏机。2014年，凯尔·瓦格纳（Kyle Wagner）写了一篇短文，讲述了Gamergate的教训——一场以媒体批评的语言掩盖的针对**记者的定向骚扰运动——如何预测我们当前的大部分时刻。他写道：

There is a reason why, in all the Gamergate rhetoric, you hear the echoes of every other social war staged in the last 30 years: overly politically correct, social-justice warriors, the media elite, gamers are not a monolith. There is also a reason why so much of the rhetoric amounts to a vigorous argument that Being a gamer doesn’t mean you’re sexist, racist, and stupid—a claim no one is making. Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn’t have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors. This is how you get St. Louisans sincerely explaining that Ferguson protestors are the real racists, and how you end up with an organized group of precisely the same video game enthusiasts to whom an entire industry is catering honestly believing that they’re an oppressed minority. From this kind of ideological fortification, you can stage absolutely whatever campaigns you deem necessary.

你可以从保守派对科文顿录像带的反应中看到这种反应，它基本上是这样说的：这些孩子只是在行使他们的第一修正案权利，而这里的真正问题是不宽容的左翼和主流媒体已经开始妖魔化他们，冷却他们的****权利。他们还抱怨说，美国土著长者内森·菲利普斯（Nathan Phillips）一开始是朝青少年走去的，而不是像一些人最初报道的那样被他们找到。这是科文顿青少年在《今日秀》节目中获得同情观众的基本机制，也可能邀请他们入主白宫。如果你是一个新闻消费者，当你在每次重大冲突中看到这本剧本时，了解它是很有帮助的。如果你是一名新闻**人，了解这一点很有帮助，这样你就不会被玩弄了。

但并非所有这些都是新的。大众媒体中出现的突出冲突一直是辩论我们价值观的背景。是媒体**的民主化，再加上社交网络的病毒式分享机制，让人觉得这些冲突比以前更频繁。当然，每件事都比以前更让人筋疲力尽。

我很想把这一切都留在那里——推特是一个地狱网站，等等——但事实上，这种观点认为，如果我们不讨论种族主义、它与当前总统**的关系以及它对高中生的影响，我们大家都会过得更好。你可能会因为那次谈话而感到筋疲力尽，或者感到沮丧。但是，说这是一次不值得进行的谈话似乎有些奇怪。

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法国因谷歌首次严重违反新的欧洲隐私制度《*****》而对其处以近5700万美元的罚款

托尼·罗姆（Tony Romm）报告称，谷歌因违**DPR而对一家科技公司处以第一笔巨额罚款，这是谷歌因违反数据隐私而受到的打击：

France’s top data-privacy agency, known as the CNIL, said Monday that Google failed to fully disclose to users how their personal information is collected and what happens to it. Google also did not properly obtain users’ c***ent for the purpose of showing them personalized ads, the watchdog agency said.

To French regulators, Google’s business practices ran afoul of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation. Implemented in 2018, the sweeping privacy rules, commonly referred to as GDPR, have set a global standard that has forced Google and its tech peers in Silicon Valley to rethink their data-collection practices or risk sky-high fines. The United States lacks a similar, overarching federal c***umer privacy law, a deficiency in the eyes of privacy rights advocates that has elevated Europe as the world’s de facto privacy cop.

Facebook的WhatsApp限制消息转发以遏制虚假新闻

我曾说过，消息传递应用程序应该具备端到端加密或病毒共享机制，但不能两者兼而有之。因此，Facebook决定在全球范围内限制消息转发——旨在减少仇恨言论和错误信息的传播——是一个非常好的消息。Saritha Rai报道：

“Starting today, WhatsApp will be implementing this change globally,“ a spokeswoman said in a statement Monday. “This will continue help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts.”

Facebook因侵犯隐私可能面临创纪录的美国罚款

大卫·麦克劳克林（David McLaughlin）报道说，联邦贸易委员会（Federal Trade Commission）越来越接近对Facebook违反2011年同意令的行为进行罚款(不过，“创纪录的罚款”仍可能代表Facebook在一两天内创造的收入。）

The size of the Facebook fine couldn’t be learned. It’s also not clear whether the agency has settled on how much to seek from the Menlo Park, California-based company or whether it will also require changes to Facebook’s data collection and sharing practices.

Still, the likelihood of the penalty seems to indicate officials have determined there was a violation of the 2011 settlement. The agency opened it’s investigation after the disclosure that political c***ulting firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to information on about 70 million Facebook users in the U.S. The company has denied the incident was a violation.

在批评的**下，Facebook的桑德伯格提出了应对错误信息的新计划

在慕尼黑的DLD，Facebook的首席运营官提到了与德国**的新合作关系。如果有人想深入研究或在其他地方读到这方面的内容，我希望看到更多的细节。Facebook究竟希望如何指导德国国内的决策？

Today, she said Facebook was announcing a new partnership with the German government’s information security office to help guide policymaking inside the country and across the EU ahead of its parliamentary electi*** this year.

为什么这些年轻的科技工作者在周五晚上计划反抗谷歌、亚马逊和Facebook等公司

Shirin Ghaffary在布鲁克林参加了一个有政治头脑的技术工人会议。他们的目标包括：破坏亚马逊在纽约的地区办事处：

Most of them make their living on the payrolls of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Uber, and many are increasingly disillusioned and in disagreement with the acti*** of their employers on key political and moral issues. Plucked from the last few months of tech news headlines, their concerns range from how to curb sexual haras**ent to the ethical use of artificial intelligence to the working conditi*** of contract employees.

The tech industry has widely been c***idered to be relatively apolitical (and even antisocial). But the growing popularity of grassroots organizing events like this one in major tech hubs like New York, San Francisco, and Seattle is a sign that tech workers — even those with six-figure salaries and generous benefits — are aware of the disparities between their colleagues and frustrated with the societal c***equences of the tools they’re building.

在备受争议的**内容清理一个月后，极右翼页面在Tumblr上蓬勃发展

卢克·巴恩斯（Luke Barnes）报道说，Verizon对色情的态度比对纳粹的态度要强烈得多，至少在Tumblr上是这样：

This subtle creep of white nationali** into Tumblr is made easier by the website’s emphasis on aesthetics. Multiple pages examined by ThinkProgress effectively straddle the fence with a mix of content. A good portion of it is standard Tumblr fare, such as pictures of historical figures, nature, and attractive men and women. But mixed in are obvious dog-whistles to far-right political movements.

特朗普总统在Facebook和Instagram上发布修改过的照片，让他看起来更瘦

这是马特·诺瓦克（Matt Novak）的故事（a）非常滑稽，（b）是未来事情的可怕预兆，还是两者兼而有之？

In recent months, Trump’s official Facebook and Instagram accounts have published photos of the president that have been manipulated to make him look thinner. If it only happened once you might be able to chalk it up as an accident. But Gizmodo has discovered at least three different retouched photos on President Trump’s social media pages that have been published since October of 2018.

谷歌表示，根据欧盟版权法，搜索将是这样

谷歌正在告诉欧盟，如果它通过了版权指令，它可能会在欧盟境内扼杀谷歌新闻。詹姆斯·文森特报道：

Google has issued a warning about the damage the directive might do in an unusual format: an empty search results page.

To be more precise, it’s an empty search results page for news. One of the most controversial segments of the Copyright Directive is Article 11, which gives publishers the right to demand paid licenses for using snippets of their stories. From Google’s point of view, that gives it two choices: start paying for licenses or don’t show snippets at all.

俄罗斯指责Facebook、Twitter未能遵守数据法

就在Facebook删除了一个俄罗斯宣传网络后，该国的通信监督机构表示，它将执行规定，要求该公司在俄罗斯存储有关俄罗斯用户的数据(这一举措也适用于推特。）美国社交网络是否正在沿着一条最终将在俄罗斯被封锁的道路前行，或者它们在俄罗斯的存在是否因为其他原因对普京政权有价值？安M。西蒙斯：

Communicati*** watchdog Roskomnadzor, the federal executive body resp***ible for censorship in media and telecommunicati***, said the social-media networks hadn’t submitted any formal and specific plans or submitted an acceptable explanation of when they would meet the country’s requirements that all servers used to store Russians’ personal data be located in Russia. Roskomnadzor said it had sent the companies a letter on Dec. 17 advising them of the need to comply with the law and giving them 30 days to provide “a legally valid resp***e,” Russian news agency Interfax reported.

As such, “Today, Roskomnadzor begins administrative proceedings against both companies,” the watchdog said.

印度希望社交媒体平台删除其认为“非法”的内容

Makena Kelly报道了印度**关于新规则的提议，以遏制假新闻和错误信息的传播。这些规则可能会破坏世界各地的端到端加密：

The proposed rules would amend Section 79 of India’s IT Act, the primary law in the country concerning online commerce and cybercrime. The IT Act works in a similar manner as the US’s Communicati*** Decency Act, and the specific section that would be amended reads a lot like Section 230. If the amendments are approved, platforms like Facebook and Twitter would be required to censor content that the Indian government deems inappropriate, potentially affecting how content is served outside Indian borders. Further, the amended law would require these companies to produce user messages if the government requests the information, causing serious legal problems for end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp.

在别处

Facebook认为《****》对它的报道变得更加关键。是的。

如果他们真的想抓你，那不是妄想症！拉尼·莫拉（Rani Molla）的这篇报道关注的是《****》，但它很好地代表了一般媒体的报道。2016年之前，我自己写了很多关于Facebook新功能的奇才故事：

Sentiment in the Times’ coverage of Facebook has been, on average, almost exclusively negative since the 2016 electi***, according to new data ****yzed by researcher Joe Hovde, a full-time data ****yst at a retail tech company.

For the ****ysis, Hovde included stories with “Facebook” in the article headline and summary text, and then scored the surrounding words on a scale of -5 (very negative words like curses unlikely to show up in the Times) to +5 (extremely positive, using words like “superb” or “breathtaking”). This data was updated from one of his studies that was published in BuzzFeed last spring.

Facebook关于如何从儿童身上赚钱的内部文件即将发布

所有大型应用商店最终都将面临集体诉讼，因为它们允许未成年人用父母的信用卡购买过多的虚拟商品。Facebook是最新一家面临此类诉讼的公司，一些新公布的文件表明，这里可能会有更多退款：

Facebook often failed to send receipts for these purchases, and links on the company’s website to dispute charges frequently failed to work, according to court records. A Facebook employee is quoted describing their attempt to dispute a charge.

“I was stuck in an infinite-loop of questi*** just today,” the employee wrote. “It feels like the form is this Frankenstein beast that we’ve bolted together.”

Facebook正在重组其增强现实眼镜部门，因为它离发布日期越来越近

Rob Price对Facebook的AR眼镜进行了更新，表明该部门是公司的重中之重：

The Silicon Valley tech giant has moved hundreds of employees from its research-focused unit Facebook Reality Labs to a new standalone product team focused on AR, Business Insider has learned.

The employees had already been working on AR tech at the Reality Labs group prior to the move, and the shift indicates Facebook continues to be focused on developing augmented-reality hardware and that its approach is shifting from something experimental and research-driven to a focus on delivering actual commercial products.

Facebook和Q一直在不断壮大海外的总部琐事竞争对手

我忘了Facebook甚至在市场上有一个总部琐事克隆，但Kerry Flynn报告说它取得了一些成功：

While HQ has put its efforts to grow internationally on hold, both Facebook and The Q are seizing the opportunity to spread their products globally. Some of these shows have been even more successful than the U.S. versi***. For example, Facebook hosts two daily shows in Mexico whereas every other country it’s currently operating has only one each. A Facebook spokesperson said the popularity of the game in Mexico is evidence that Confetti can create fan engagement.

Snap的安全主管因与切达车上的外部顾问有秘密关系而被解雇

亚历克斯·希思（Alex Heath）有另一个令人印象深刻的独家新闻，该公司的全球安全主管在一项内部调查发现他一直在向女友支付六位数的咨询费后被解雇，但他没有透露这一消息。其臭名昭著的人力资源主管杰森·哈尔伯特（Jason Halbert）卷入了调查，并被Snap开除。一方面，它的高管更替率更高。另一方面，Snap高管离开公司的原因并非与埃文·斯皮格尔（Evan Spiegel）的丑陋冲突！

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Facebook推出**功能，这是它的下一个战场

Facebook正在推出一个名为“社区行动”的新**功能。Facebook将建立一个Change.org克隆网站是有道理的——向你的朋友公开**会让你受益匪浅，我预计我们会看到很多这样的网站被病毒传播。Josh Contine关注Facebook**书的潜在误用，不难想象病毒暴徒会在这里复制Gamergate剧本。不过，大多数情况下，我是从订婚的角度来看待这一点的——**书吸引了眼球，可能会激发失效用户的兴趣。Facebook现在真正可以使用的，特别是在北美：

Community Acti*** start to roll out to the US tomorrow after several weeks of testing in a couple of markets. Users can add a title, description, and image to their Community Action, and tag relevant government agencies and officials who’ll be notified. The goal is to make the Community Action go viral and get people to hit the “Support” button. Community Acti*** have their own discussion feed where people can leave comments, create fundraisers, and organize Facebook Events or Call Your Rep campaigns. Facebook displays the numbers of supporters behind a Community Action, but you’ll only be able to see the names of those you’re friends with or that are Pages or public figures.

Facebook is purposefully trying to focus Community Acti*** to be more narrowly concentrated on spurring government action than just any random cause. That means it won’t immediately replace Change.org petiti*** that can range from the civilian to the absurd. But one-click Support straight from the News Feed could massively reduce the friction to signing up, and thereby attract organizati*** and individuals seeking to maximize the size of their mob.

脸谱网和慕尼黑工业大学宣布新独立的人工智能伦理研究所

Facebook正在资助新的人工智能伦理研究：

Today, Facebook is announcing a new partnership with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to support the creation of an independent AI ethics research center. The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, which is supported by an initial funding grant from Facebook of $7.5 million over five years, will help advance the growing field of ethical research on new technology and will explore fundamental issues affecting the use and impact of AI.

Twitter正在推出一个新的网络界面，包括一个表情按钮

Twitter的新桌面网站是仿照移动网站设计的，带来了一些不错的触感。除了偶尔为Tweetdeck修复bug之外，更好的做法是继续支持其本机桌面客户端。但我们到了。

Match Group和Betches的新约会应用程序允许你为朋友刷卡

Ashley Carman报道了一款新的约会应用程序，它给这一类型带来了有趣的转变：

Match Group and the media brand Betches are partnering to launch an iOS dating app that allows users to help their friends pick out potential dates. The app is called Ship, and it lets users swipe for their friends and chat about profiles, so even if your best friend is in a relati***hip, he or she can download the app and look around for you. (Your mom could, too.)

Ship could stand out by creating a different behavior than we’re used to on most dating apps. More importantly, it comes from the popular, female-oriented content machine Betches, which produces a website, Instagram account, and podcast, among other things. It has a massive following across various platforms.

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如果马克·扎克伯格想谈，英国正在等待

达米安·柯林斯（Damian Collins）是英国议会中Facebook最直言不讳的批评者之一，他警告说，他的委员会今年将加大力度，而且很快：

This month, my select committee will produce our final report in our inquiry into disinformation and the many issues we have examined related to Facebook and other social media companies. We also recently began an inquiry into the ethics and practices of addictive and immersive media.

I believe we should give tech companies limited liability for harmful and illegal content that has been posted on their sites. If a company has been notified of this content or should have reasonably been able to discover it on its own, then it should be required to take it down promptly or be held resp***ible for its still being there. This principle has already been established in Germany, where the government requires the tech companies to act against content that is in breach of the country’s hate speech laws.

Facebook拥有你的图片是不够的。它也想承认你的死亡。

菲利普·肯尼科特（Philip Kennicott）发现10年的挑战令人沮丧：

It plays into our narcissi**, and our competitive instincts, and it is little different from a game of “Hot or Not,” but for old people on Facebook who know their friends will be kind if not truthful. It encourages malice and feeds our appetite for schadenfreude (“The years haven’t been kind to him . . .”). It abets the industries of youthfulness, purveyors of wrinkle creams and Botox and co**etic surge***. It is also curiously moralistic with its implicit assumption that we have a duty to ourselves to keep our carcass in good shape. And it awakens atavistic beliefs about morality and the body, as if our face, like the painting in Dorian Gray’s old schoolroom, is a physical record of our deeds. Is that, perhaps, why so many of the images posted as part of the challenge feel strangely like mug shots submitted for juridical evaluation?

最后。。。

难以置信的亲缘关系：亚历山大·奥卡西奥·科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio Cortez）在社交媒体上浪费生命，证明她和我们一样

我笑了：

Ocasio-Cortez wins the internet every day with incredible posts in which she comes off as a normal, everyday person who’s forced to be online 24/7 due to social media’s ever-tightening stranglehold on American life. She posts viral tweets to her 1.5 million followers that eloquently and passionately explain her progressive political goals, each tweet evidence of a moment Twitter has stolen from her—time she’ll never get back.

Amazing! It’s refreshing to see an elected official who actually knows how to use social media instead of being free from the interminable nightmare.

跟我说

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